Class of 1907

A letter recently received by Abe Winslow, secretary of the Dartmouth Association of Northern California, and written by the state superintendent of public instruction of Nevada, gives the following report of the death of Chauncey Smith:

"You may have heard by this time thatMr. Smith passed away at his home hereon the night of December 4, from a sudden heart attack. He had never complained of heart trouble and seemed tobe in the prime of life. His death was agreat shock to the whole state, as he wasgenuinely loved."

In response to a request from the Secretary. Harper Kitching writes:

"Business is proceeding comfortably,that is, as comfortably as could be expected under present conditions—and thefamily is well. The two daughters are coming along fine. Jessie is in her second yearat Vassar, where she continues to maintain her high scholastic standing, whichability, as you well know, she does notinherit from her male parent. Marjorieis in her first year of senior high school.

"The memory of our delightful reunio?iin June lingers on, and will continue todo so-for some time to come."

"Kitch" is connected with Vincent Edwards & Company, 342 Madison Ave., New York City, the "world's largest advertising service organization," and publishers of several business papers.

Here's a message from Grandfather Niles: "In answer to your friendly inquiry, Imust confess that I have undergone agreat strain recently, for within sevenmonths, I have given the world twograndsons. Although this service to thecause of humanity zoas a vicarious one, itnevertheless has left me someiuhat depleted, but very happy.

"In June, 193'], my son, L. F. Niles,Dartmouth '35, was the proud father ofJohn Bosworth Niles, Dartmouth '59, and°n January 20 of this year, my daughterpresented us with David Niles Parker,whose father, M. I. T. '36, declares hewill do everything in his power to directhis son elsezvhere than Hanover. All concerned are doing well and Mrs. Niles andI are naturally very happy."

Learning that Professor Curtis M. Hilliard of Simmons College, Boston, had long been a friend of Ted Brock, whose death was reported in a recent MAGAZINE, the class secretary asked Professor Hilliard if he would be good enough to prepare, for the benefit of Ted's classmates, a statement giving the outlines of Ted's life since graduation. Professor Hilliard's interesting and comprehensive sketch and affectionate tribute to his friend and ours follows:

"Born in North Conway, N. H., on April 22, 1882, the youngest of six children, Ted grew up in that town and graduated from the local grammar school, but was obliged to work for a few years before attending the Stevens High School in Claremont, from which he graduated in 1903. He worked to put himself through college, being commissary of the Gibson Club for three years and worked in hotels during the summer. He was a charter member of the Dartmouth Chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity.

"His first job after graduation was with the New York World. From there he went with the National Cloak and Suit Company, a mail order house, making ready-to-wear women's apparel, and rose rapidly to be in charge of one large department of that company. Ted was ambitious and dreamed dreams of a successful independent career. In 1914 he incorporated the Knickerbocker Mail Order Company and started business 'on a shoe-string,' as he would say. He had little money of his own, but with a genius for inspiring confidence, and a typical Yankee sense of how to make a dollar produce its full value, he interested others to invest, and during the war years the business grew miraculously. From an office with a few dresses hung on a rack doing a few thousand dollars worth of business, he moved repeatedly into larger quarters until he occupied a seven-story building and was doing a million-dollar business. Then came the precipitate decline in inventories, which a new industry could not weather, and failure.

"Ted never fully recovered from this blow. He never lost his courage, but his sense of personal responsibility for the losses, incurred by friends whom he had interested, stayed with him to the end.

"He got a good position with the Crosley Radio Corporation in Cincinnati, where he might have spent his days comfortably, but the creative urge called him, and he attempted to build up an independent business in several lines, but was always tripped by some unpredictable event.

"Ted Brock will always be remembered by his friends as kindly, genial, buoyant, and lovable, always optimistic and confident of the future. He had a host of affectionate friends in Larchmont, N. Y„ where he had lived during the last ten years, and where he was manager o£ the Manor Inn at the time of his death.

"Those of us who knew him well have known a man who could face disappointments, adversity, and loss with courage, cheerfulness, and faith unquenchable. Men like that leave a mark more enduring than worldly success gained by easy paths."

ALUMNI FUND RECORD FOR 1937

JO7 contributors (63% of graduates),total gifts of $2,440.50 (73% of objective).

JOHN R. MCLANE, Class Agent

CONTRIBUTORS

1907 Ashley, Edward L. Barker, Edward B. Barnes, Samuel L. Bartlett, James A. Bartlett, Samuel C. Beals, Charles E. Blaisdell, J. Harper Brock, Timothy W. Brown, Allan Brown, James B. Brown, Ray W. Chase, Philip H. Churchill, Perley W. Churchill, Wendall H. Coburn, Joseph M. Cochrane, Robert C. Crocker, John F. Cummings, Willard H. Cushman, Norman L. Davis, Nathaniel F. Davis, Orlando C. Evans, Percival B. Farrington, Jeremiah A. Field, Thomas S. Fields, Charles W. Foley, Ernest L. Foster, Fred E. Gerry, Louis C. Glattfeld, John W. E. Grebenstein, George W. Greenleaf, Fred B. Haley, Henry T. Hart, John S. Hathaway, C. Henry Heneage, Harry R. Hill, Hermon H. Hinman, Herbert D. Howard, George H. Howard, Henry D. Hoyt, George H. Jamison, George H. Jennings, William Jordan, John H. Kelly, Harry G. Kenyon, Robert D. Kimball, William R. King, Victor L. Kitching, Albert H. Knapp, Merton C. Knight, N. Hobbs Lane, H. Richardson Langill, Morton H. Langley, Clarence E. Leighton, Walter M. Luberger, Charles F. Lyon, Robert I. McCann, Joseph P. McCoy, Wallis A. Macdonald, Jerome A. McKendree, Charles A. McLane, John R. Martin, William A. Minsch, William J. Nesmith, Walter S. Niles, Harold L. Norris, Clifford E. Parker, Harold Pelren, Harry J. Perkins, Ralph S. Pierce, Carlos T. Piper, Jonathan Plummer, Curtis Pond, Bremer W. Redington, Theodore T. Reilly, James C. Reilly, Thomas E. Richards, Earl T. Richardson, Charles P. Richardson, Elwood S.1 Sanborn, Walter B. Sanborn, William A. Shattuck, Roger C. Smart, Wilfred H. Smith, Morris K. Southgate, Richard S. Spear, Arthur G. Sprague, Leon A. Stevens, Albert E. Stilphen, Cornelius M. Stokes, Robert T. Storrs, Harry C. Tabor, Parker W. Tate, Francis R. Taylor, Arthur W. Walker, William D. Wallace, John C. Warner, Harry J. Washburn, Benjamin M. Whitaker, Harry S. Williams, Don J. Winslow, Arthur E. Witham, William E. Woodbury, Chester T. Woodworth, Charles P. Worthen, Thacher W. Wright, Russell B. Wyman, William U. 1 Memorial gift from hisfriend, Mr. Benjamin M.Stout 1911.

Secretary, 80 Federal St., Boston