Class of 1908
Developments in 30th Reunion news consist principally of straggling reports from classmates who write that they plan to be in Hanover in June. Several more have indicated they are coming, and probably next month we'll give you the list. In the meantime it can be reported that the Dartmouth Outing Club will entertain 'OB the evening of June 18 (Saturday) at the Outing Club House. The class dinner, for men only, will probably be at 8:30.
The class picnic Sunday, for everybody, is still a bit of a problem. Many classmates say they do not want to go far from Hanover; some do not want to leave Hanover at all. Fordie Sayre, who is Perry Fairfield's successor at the Hanover Inn, says he will fix up the food for a picnic, and if the weather is reasonably fair we can have an outdoor picnic in or near Hanover, and if it is stormy he will arrange an under-cover place. More information about picnic and other reunion details will be sent you later, via MAGAZINE and bulletins.
A good letter from Art Soule tells how he met Clint Bills in Buffalo in February. Art says Clint has changed less than any man in the class. Says he is coming to reunion, with Mrs. Bills. Art says Clint is "full of vivacity." Clint says Art has changed less than any other man in the class, and is just overflowing with vivacity. Hope they save some of that vivacity for the Reunion, and bring a case of it to pass around among those of us who are less full of vivacity. The point seems to be that Soule and Bills had a vivacious meeting in Buffalo, and both are headed for the Reunion.
Gerrit Smith Griswold died February 24 in Batavia, N. Y. He was one of the veteran publishers of New York state, and the father of Laurence Griswold 'OB. Larry has been associated with his father in the publishing business ever since his graduation.
Chicago Ev Marsh says he is coming to the Reunion with his wife, his daughter, and a girl friend of the daughter's. We can guarantee the vivacity of the party, if classmates will follow Ev's example.
Park Stickney writes that he had a visit with Fritz Cooper in Chicago, and that Fritz wont promise to come East in June. Says his real estate business is too pressing. Will somebody please put pressure on Fritz and get him to Hanover by June 17?
Old Larry Symmes has a young Larry in the senior class at Dartmouth. Old Larry says young Larry "got five straight A's onhis mid-year marks, but I don't know whatgood that will do him after he leaves college next June." Personally, we don't know what five straight A's are, but it sounds like a good poker hand.
Three new addresses: John Tatterson is now living at 197 Pine St. in Portland, Me. Fred S. Stripp is at 1226 Josephine St. in Berkeley, Calif. Sidney Phillips is at 37 Argyle Ave., West Hartford, Conn.
Here's news. Albert R. Chandler was married February 18 to Mary M. Shields, a cousin of Chandler's first wife. Not only has Prof. Chandler married again but he has also written a book. It is called "Larks, Nightingales, and Poets," and is an anthology of poems. Costs $5 a copy, too.
Mention of Prof. Chandler would remind us, even if we hadn't received several letters on the subject, of some inexcusably inaccurate reporting in our last month's column. We said Mrs. Larry Leavitt is the daughter of Lillard '05. That's what we get when we wander outside the 'OB roll in trying to give Dartmouth gossip. Leavitt was associated for several years with Lillard at Tabor Academy, but didn't marry the boss's daughter. Mrs. Leavitt is the daughter of the late E. K. Hall '92. Our abject apologies to Lillard, Leavitt, Mrs. Leavitt, Lillard's daughters, Tabor Academy, Vermont Academy, and anybody else who was annoyed or amused by our genealogical blunder.
H. B. Cogswell writes that he is not too hopeful of getting to the Reunion. He is living at 311 So. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, 111., and is working for the Electro-Motive company, a subsidiary of General Motors, in La Grange, Ill. They make motors and Diesel engines for railroad service. Harold has been with the company two years. He says he visited Hanover last August with his wife, who had her first view of the College then.
Richard Wyman, son of Art Wyman, was in the hospital in Haverhill, Mass., in March, with scarlet fever. He is a student in Gov. Dummer Academy. Art is having lots of troubles. The WPA crew has been cutting brush near his summer estate in Milford (not Wilton) N. H., and they chopped down what Art believed were some lovely shade trees, but the WPA men mistook them for brush.
Howard Hilton told Chicago classmates he was going on a Caribbean cruise. Apparently he fooled them, and went to South America. His letter will be of real interest to classmates. Says Howard:
"It is not very often that I am able to make a contribution to the 1908 class news which appears in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. However, I now have some news of importance.
"I have just returned from a vacation which I took in the form of a trip down to Rio. As you would expect, I was met at the dock by good old General Knox, who entertained Mrs. Hilton and me in royal fashion. There I found the General living the life of Reilly, maintaining a household of servants, chauffeurs, etc., etc. However, I believe that that life of luxury is beginning to pall on him, and he now expresses a deep yearning to return to the hills of New Hampshire next June. While he would not give any final decision in this matter, I have every reason to believe that he will make his appearance.
"When a man comes that distance for the main purpose of meeting those classmates whom he has not seen for many years, it seems to me that all of us who live but a few miles from Hanover should put in our appearance in order that he may not be disappointed. We will not have many more opportunities. It is later than you think."
From Milford, N. H.
