Class of 1909
Bill Loughlin, our distinguished attorney of Gardner, Mass., is sitting as master in proceedings brought against some thirty greater Boston milk-handling concerns, involving the cpnstitutionality of the federal marketing agreement.
Harriet and I took the boys to Hanover the Saturday before the 22d and stayed through. We met Bert French with young Bert, Plum and Ella Leighton with daughter Audrey, Fred and Mary Carroll with son Robert, Dutch and Charlotte West and daughter, Mike Farley and daughter Betty.
Monday morning the Wests, the Leightons, and the Holmeses went up to Occum Pond for skating. I'll wager most anything that Plum is the best figure skater in the class, including wives and children. In the most nonchalant matter-of-fact manner he does about everything that can be done on skates, and he seems just about as fit and powerful as he ever was. I learned that he is an "older brother" instructor for most of the young skaters in Wellesley.
Dutch West has a magnificent camera which he handles most skillfully. He took quite a few '09 pictures and perhaps we will be able to show you some of them.
While the various family groups separated from time to time for different interests and activities, we got together fre. quently for meals, went to the basketball games, the track meet, the swimming meet, etc., in groups and had several fanning bees.
The Hazeltons all seemed well and fit. Young Sid took my Steve in swimming and got him into a recreational water polo game, much to Steve's gratification. We also got in some skiing and some squash, although the skiing was so fast and tricky that my own consisted largely of looking on. We had to drive up to Bradford, Sandy Hooker's home town, for the skiing. But everyone found more things that he liked to do and more people that he wanted to see in Hanover than there was time for, even over the four-day period. It was a gorgeous party, and it puzzles me that so few of the class take advantage of the opportunity.
Those present at the annual dinner of the Alumni Association of Boston were Phil Chase, Bob Burns, Cad Cummings, Dan Watson, Wallie Ross, Howard Spaulding, Mike Farley, Norman Catharin, Gordon Weinz, and Bob Holmes.
A substantial contribution from Bill Patterson to the 1937 Alumni Fund was received a few days after July 1 last, the closing date, and for technical reasons was not included in the report on donations in the last issue of the MAGAZINE, although the result is practically the same. We appreciate Bill's generous spirit and support.
It's rather too bad to find from the report on the Alumni Fund in the last issue of the MAGAZINE that 1909 ranks no better than 43d out of 60 in ranking the classes on their 1937 Alumni Fund achievement. In percentage of achievement in reaching the cash quota, we stand 58th, and on the combined ranking of percentage of contributors and percentage of objective, which is presumably the best determinant, we stand 55th on the list of 60. I cannot believe that this is a fair criterion of class interest or loyalty, and it's certainly far below its ability in spite of the hard work of Curtiss Sheldon. Let's get together behind Hal Prescott and see if we can make an improvement. We mean well, but let's do well.
Secretary, Room 729, 100 Milk St., Boston
