Class of 1904
A recent mail brought from Chick Weston an attractive calendar which memorializes Chick's two hobbies—his son, Perry, and a big Maine trout. Perry, now a member of the class of '40 is the subject of a delightful picture taken in the Maine woods when he was ten years old. Perry, registering complete satisfaction, is holding up a trout half his size with the caption "Even the small boys get them at GrantsCamps."
Nov. 25. "Dave—Am too full of food towrite a letter, Sid." This cheerful note of good wishes written on Thanksgiving Day apparently makes the modest announcement that Rollins won the turkey raffle at the local barber shop Wednesday night and that the family—again reading between the lines—enjoyed a real New Hampshire feast. Sid's eyesight was up to the usual standard, however, for he sent along this extremely interesting item clipped from the New York Herald Tribune of that day.
"A mildly chiding letter from H. E. Van Surdam, the energetic secretary of the Touchdown Club of New York, goes slightly nostalgic and resentful over the failure to mention Major R. R. Brown, director of athletics and football coach at New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell, in speaking of coaches who have been coaching continuously for more than a quarter of a century.
"Major Brown is known, well and favorably, no doubt, as Railroad, and he began coaching at the 'Turn of this century.'
" 'I first knew him,' Mr. Van S. writes, 'when he was coaching at Tulane in 1909 and officiated with him in many games in the Southwest in 1914 and 1915, and my teams of the old El Paso Military Institute played against his in the period 1910 to 1915. Brown is an old Dartmouth grad and he is back so far even I have forgotten the exact date of his membership on Dartmouth teams. He is one of the most colorful coaches in the entire Southwest and he and McKale, of the University of Arizona, have done some mighty constructive work in building up the highest type of sportsmanship in the border country.' "
That's a fine tribute to curly haired Bob Brown and his long constructive service in the development of wholesome college sport along our Southwestern border.
A letter dated December 12, 1937, from Mrs. Gertrude Zerbe of New York City, a sister of Bill Mahoney, brings this firsthand information. "My brother, Bill, hadretired from all activities, business andsocial in recent years on account of illhealth. He went to California where mysister resides, seeking to regain his health,but to no avail. He passed away. suddenlyon June 22, 1936. My husband and I werevisiting in Los Angeles at the time. As youprobably know, he was a bachelor. He hada fine personality and will be missed by hismany friends."
Referring to his son, William, now at Exeter, Bob Mosely says in a letter dated December 15th, "Everybody has been verynice to him, and he is already a one hundred per cent Dartmouth enthusiast, andhopes, all being well, to enter there inSeptember 1939.—Mrs. Mosely is stayingover in New York to spend Christmas Withthe two boys, but I have some friends fromNew York who have just arrived to helpme worry through the Christmas and NewYear in London." Tough, Bob, tough, better have the whole family over and enjoy a real New Hampshire Holiday period in December, 1939.
The Boston Sunday Herald of January ninth had a very charming picture of Elizabeth Putnam Favour, whose engagement to Mr. Harold A. Carmichael of Boston and Duluth, Minn., has just been announced by her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Paul Gordon Favour of Presque Isle, Me. Miss Favour is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. Mr. Carmichael attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is now studying at Northeastern University.
Major and Mrs. Hinman announce the marriage of their daughter, Phoebe, to Mr. Rand Newman Stowell '35, on Friday the 7th of January, in the City of Washington. It pleased me to learn that this new Dartmouth family are to live in Dixfield, Me. Our northern New England States need the stimulation and enthusiasm of youth and offer in return life in neighborly, companionable communities where there are monthly dividends accruing from the recreational opportunities which are part of our every day life.
Several months ago, I received and mislaid a characteristic letter from Rosie. Referring to the fact that Rosie Jr. is in the Freshman Class he said, "I have tried tocall to mind someone of the class whomI could enthrone as a model for him toemulate scholastically—it can't be done." Look in the glass, Rosie, there's an undergraduate history that might be helpful and darned entertaining to the young man. Returning through Boston after a couple of weeks' September fishing in the Gaspe and looking for 1904 companionship, Rosie says, "I saw Robbie for about two stories.The rest of the boys are evidently makinggood as they were somewhere other thantheir places of business."
The January 1905 news is an interesting story of accomplishment for any class but the way it is all credited to '05 irks me considerably—all I have to say is if it had not been for Mrs. Billman, "Varsity" would never have rated that column.
Secretary, Waterville Valley, Waterville, N. H.
