Class of 1906

Francis Lane Childs, who has served the class so faithfully for so many years, has been granted a sabbatical year, which he expects to spend abroad. As a result, he is obliged to relinquish his duties as class secretary. When he accepted the position of secretary in June, 1926, the class records were in a deplorable condition and the spirit of the class probably was at the lowest ebb it has ever been. As a result of his concentrated efforts, three excellent books of class letters have been published, there has been a record attendance at class reunions, and the spirit of the class is better than it has been at any time since graduation. All of us, therefore, feel a debt of gratitude to Francis for his unselfish work, and all our most sincere thanks go to him.

Clyde Souter of Reno, Nevada, who for many years has been one of Nevada's outstanding attorneys, has always been too modest to write of his success, which he has not been able to keep hidden. The other day a Dartmouth man who comes from Reno, in placing Clyde as Nevada's most able attorney, stated that he undoubtedly would have been elected senator over Key Pittman but for the Roosevelt landslide. Very few men of our class have seen Clyde since he graduated—the last one, I believe, was Elwood Erickson, who used to room with him.

Nat Leverone had quite an interesting talk with Harlan Wood at Richmond, Va., the other day. Harlan is an official of the telephone company and has lived in Richmond for some years. He has such a delightful Southern accent now that no one would ever suspect he was an erstwhile Yankee. Harlan reported that Charlie - Milham and he had been together the day before at a Dartmouth luncheon, which is held quite regularly by the boys who live in and about Richmond.

Kid Gleason is still active in Chicago, and at the present time has blossomed out as an authority on briar pipes. He is selling a well-known line to local smokers.

Much favorable comment is heard about the class dinner held the night before the Harvard game last October in the University Club. Apparently everyone of the men who attended received a basket of apples from Squire McGrail's farm in Dixie. Bill, as you recall, was one of our famous orators, but he never delivered a better or more effective oration in his whole career than he did that night when as a climax to his speech he offered bushels of apples to his classmates. If someone else will promise to make as generous an offer next year, we should have the largest attendance on record.

A motion was passed at the Boston class meeting instructing the editor of the Green Messenger to send out a questionnaire on the subject of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and to include with it a ballot calling for a vote as to whether or not the class should furnish free of cost a year's subscription to all its members who are not now sub- scribers and have no intention of subscrib- ing. The opinion was expressed very vig- orously by many of the class lately that greater interest in Dartmouth College can be created through the reading of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and our class has surprisingly few subscribers.

ALUMNI FUND RECORD FOR 1937

98 contributors (70% of graduates),total gifts of $2,076.00 (75% of objective).

NATHANIEL LEVERONE, Class Agent

Assistant: Harold G. Rugg.

CONTRIBUTORS

1906 Adriance, Robert I. Ailing, Marshall L. Ayers, Augustine H. Bankart, G. Norman Barker, Thomas Beetle, Ralph D. Bell, William T. Blood, Robert M. Bowlby, Noble O. Brooks, Addison G. Brown, Thurmond Burnie, Arthur N. Carpenter, Robert F. Chapin, Arthur W. Chase, Phillips M. Chellis, Converse A. Childs, Francis L. Cogswell, Eliot' S. Connell, Thomas M. Cooke, Randall B. Cragin, Arthur M. Crane, Charles E. Cromwell, John W., Jr. Cushing, Joseph Cushing, Stephen S. Davis, Howard C. Denison, Roy E. Eastman, Frank H. Edgerton, Halsey C. Edgerton, Malcolm J. Fox, William H. French, Charles W. French, Edward S. Gage, Jesse W. Gardiner, William H. Gordon, Thurlow M. Guyer, Foster E. Hartmann, Max Hatch, Daniel P. Hazen, F. Brackett Herr, Edward A. Higman, Harry W. Holmes, Arthur D. Howard, Charles S. Howe, Willis D. Jones, Fred A. Kelly, Eric P. Ketcham, Henry C. Kingsbury, John H. Ladd, Henry B. Leverone, Nathaniel Libby, Arthur F. McGrail, William P. Main, Charles R. Main, David J. Martin, Leigh S. Merchant, Roy R. Meservey, Arthur B. Milham, Charles G. Moore, William H. Morse, Ransom W. Oakford, Edwin L. O'Brien, Michael S. Page, William R. Parker, Fred F. Patten, Harold T. Perry, Clifford O. Pierce, Charles A. Powers, Walter Pratt. Elon (j. gjni'e, Herbert W Redman, Edward B. Richardson, Robert W. RogS. Harold G. Russ, Charles A. Scott, Ralph W Sickman, Guy Smith, Cary F. Smith, Ephraiin J. Smith, Eugene G. Smith, Harold E. Smith, Joseph T Smith, Watson B. Soule, Carlton M. Souter, Clyde D. Spencer, Bertrand E. Stone, Albert H. Swasey, George L. Terrien, George D. Thompson, Ralph Thrall, Henry D. Tufts, Joseph A. Twiss, William B. Wallace, Robert B. Warner, Edwin E. Webster, Merton W. Welch, Frederic W. Whittemore, Harvey F. Wood, Harlan W.

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