Class of 1905
The membership list of the '05 Granddaddies' Club is rapidly increasing. Now it is Grandpa Lillard. Mr. and Mrs. Evan R. Collins (Virginia Lillard) announced the birth of Evan Junior on November 6. Felicitations of the class are extended to all concerned.
Tax collector Hills writes -.—"CharleyGoodrich gave a highly interesting lectureand sound movie in Hanover on November II on 'The San Francisco-Oakland BayBridge.' As chief engineer of the AmericanBridge Company, Charley gave us firsthandinformation in a very clear manner Mrs. Hills and I recently had. the pleasureof spending a night at the fine old McClaryhome in Mai one. The family are all well.Nelson is with the N. Y. Central office inMalone, and Louise is with the Adirondack-Florida School, a boys' preparatoryschool which divides its time between theAdirondacks and Florida. The superlativecharacter of the McClary table is one ofthe high spots of Northern New York, andit is unfortunate for other members of theclass that Malone is so far off the beatenlines of travel."
I also learn that a short time after the above gastronomic treat the Malone McClarys visited the Norwich Hills for a weekend, enjoying the usual delightful time that the hosts always give to their guests.
If this keeps on, by late spring they will be passing each other on the road.
The Lowell High football team has had remarkable success under Tom Keady's coaching the past few seasons. In 1935, undefeated in the state (Massachusetts) games; 1936, winning all but two games, the two opponents making a total of but seven points to spoil Lowell's slate; this year losing only one game, and that six to nothing.
" 'I should like to have my boy play under Tom Keady.' When one hears that fromthe fathers of young gridsters it is a compliment difficult to better. But Tom deservesjust such praise, for he knows his footballthoroughly and knows how to take care ofthe boys."—Boston Post.
Walter Conley writes -.—"Business hasbeen fair for a whole year, but now is flattening out and no bridges in sight. HadImicheon with Tub Besse and Walter Emery last week. Sliver Hatch joins us once ina while. Sliver certainly looks well andprosperous. Spent Christmas and a fewdays with the old folks in Portland. Calledon Ernest White and had a nice chat withhim there.
"Not running this place as a farm anylonger, but do enjoy the horseback ridingand the other things that go to make uplife in the country."
On Wednesday afternoon, July 23, the marriage of Anna Cole Putnam, daughter of George Putnam, to Frederick G. Butterworth Jr. took place at Montclair, N. J. Mrs. Butterworth attended the Women's College of the University of North Carolina. Mr. Butterworth is associated with the advertising department of the New York Post.
And on November 23, at Lyme, N. H., Ruth Elizabeth Putnam was married to Forrest L. Abbott. Mrs. Abbott attended Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, and received her B.A. degree from the University of Illinois. Mr. Abbott is a graduate of Southwest Missouri State Teachers College, and received his M.A. degree from Columbia.
The best wishes of the class are extended to both couples.
"Put" writes:—"Now, with all three ofmy own children happily married, I candraw one big breath and enjoy an un-wonted serenity of life. There are, to besure, two more children, the Putnam-Menhinicks, but they are still only twelve andfifteen.
"My wife and I were at the HarvardDartmouth deluge in Cambridge, and enjoyed the game in spite of the very thorough drenching we got. But I shouldsuppose that you Boston 'osers would doa little better for those of us who come allthe way from the wilds of New Jersey, Imean in the'way of weather. Sorry not tohave seen more of the gang, but travelingby boat each way we didn't have muchspare time. I did see Fred Weston, and didhe looked drowned!"
The class will be interested in the following letter from "Varsity":—"l proceed now to give you all the details. The older boy is named Howard Lisle and the younger one is Everett Howbert. They are unidentical twins. As five out of eight twin births are those of identical twins, we claim to have the rarer specimens. My wife and I were married at Salem, Oregon (her home), July 12, 1936. The twins were born June 28, 1937. My wife took her undergraduate work at Willamette University, and her M.A. at the University of Oregon in physical education. She taught four years in Oregon high schools besides putting in the year 1929-30 in settlement work at Hiram House, which does identical work with Hull House, Chicago. Her maiden name was Esther L. Lisle.
"I might further add that the twins tipped the scales at 6 and 5 pounds, Howard being the larger. He is named for my father. As my father was a minister, let us hope his example may have some weight.
"My curiosity is aroused regarding other members of our class who may have twins. As twin births occur about once in a hundred, it may be possible. If there are no others, I guess the drinks are on me.
"Doubtless you have other data concerning me. My two girls, Geraldine and Anna Mae, are with their mother in Petaluma, Calif., and are now 12 and 10 years old respectively. They are getting along nicely.
" 'Batch' and I had a hard time this year. No money for any kind of fruit. C. C. Hills please note.
"I understand that a fund left by a wealthy San Francisco man, a graduate of Dartmouth, amounts to $500 a year for two men going from California. I am perfectly willing to enroll the twins at this time in the class of 1959, provided I can get in on that scholarship.
"Needless to say, we will do our best to encourage the team next November when they meet the Sanford Red. Let us hope that from now on we will have as good a fielding average against Stanford as Columbia has had. When they were out here before I got the cake for being the loudest rooter, letting loose the pent-up enthusiasm of about 25 years, as that was approximately the period of years since rooting for a 'Big Green' team."
Records show that other class twins are Mary and Halsey Loder; Jane and Elsbeth Fromm If any others, will be glad to be tipped off, otherwise, Q. E. D .... Evidently Put plunged heavily in bonds last year Billman seems to have picked storks The '05 crowd in Boston by special arrangement always have good weather for their events, but limited to class affairs only. Football weather is up to the Athletic Council. . ... Put should have come a day earlier . . . . ideal weather the night of the dinner Weston was finally pumped out. I heard from him in late November. . . . . The pump needed no priming. . . . . Vaughan planned to come to the H-D game round-up, but couldn't make it. . . . . They play again next fall In response to widespread inquiries, am glad to say that Fred Chase has greatly improved in health Receipt of belated remittances of class tax will speed up forthcoming issue of the News.
MEET THE CLOUGHS (Left to right): Dr. William P. Jr. '34;Dr. William P. Sr. '05; Dr. Joseph M.Clough '31. "Old Doc" Bill Clough helpeddedicate the Harvard Stadium in 1903;Young Bill was also a football player, whileJoe took to baseball. All went to Dartmouthand Dartmouth Medical School.
Secretary, Riverbank Court, Cambridge, Mass.
