Class of 1906
No doubt many of you after reading my notes in last month's issue felt that I had forfeited all right to be a member of the English department of the College. Gott Brooks was sufficiently disturbed to write nxe as follows: "I quote from the class notesfor 1906 in the current issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE: 'Dwight Waring, whom, you will remember, is. . . .',Oh! Francis!! (or should I blame the compositor?)."
Fortunately I was able to forward Brooks my carbon copy, thereby proving that the whom was not mine but the compositor's and that I do still practice what I teach.
My thanks to the various members of the class who so thoughtfully sent me holiday greetings. Two of the cards that I received at Christmas time are worthy of special note here. Dan Hatch's was a very grand affair with a most intriguing picture of his two grandchildren peeping into a little house labeled "The Hatchery," and Shorty Davis's showed himself and one of his racing greyhounds.
Mrs. Christene Gray of Ridgewood, N. J., has presented to Dartmouth College in memory of her husband, Clarence T. Gray, a valuable collection of early prints of Dartmouth College which he had gathered over a period of many years. These prints, which are all beautifully framed, include woodcuts, lithographs, and engravings. Notable among them is a splendid specimen of the earliest known picture of the College, taken from the Massachusetts Magazine for February, 1791. The collection will be hung together in a room in Baker Memorial Library.
Harold Fish's residential address is now 1817 Asbury Ave., Evanston, I11. He is teaching biology in one of the Evanston schools.
Harold Rugg spent his Christmas recess on a trip to Jamaica, Haiti, Colombia, and Panama, and came back refreshed and joyous.
A part of their holidays were spent by Eric and Katherine Kelly in Boston. While there they saw the Junior League present a dramatization of some of the stories taken from one of Eric's books, "The Christmas Nightingale."
George Boynton's son Morris is a student this year at the New Hampton (N. H.) School for Boys.
I have been granted a sabbatical leave of absence from my teaching duties for next semester, and Mrs. Childs and I intend to spend the next six months in travel abroad. We plan to sail from New York on the American Export Line on February 15 and to visit Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Greece, Sicily, Italy, Switzerland, France, and England before we return to America at the end of July.
As I send these notes to the printer I complete twelve years as your class secretary, a much longer term than any one person ought to serve in that capacity. My many shortcomings in the office have doubtless been evident to all of you; on the other side of the ledger you may or may not have noticed that during these twelve years I have failed only two or three times to send in a monthly grist of class notes to the MAGAZINE and I have edited three quinqennial class reports. I handed in my resignation to our class president last fall. I had hoped by this time to be able to announce the name of my successor, but he has not yet been appointed. Until he is, Nat Leverone will no doubt supply this column with notes.
Now, as I conclude my work for you, I extend to all of you my heartiest thanks for the willing and constant cooperation you have given me, and I bespeak for my successor an equally generous support in his interesting but often humdrum task.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
