Class of 1915
We have lost two of our well-known members recently through the deaths of Phil Smith and Ed Whit. Unfortunately Phil's death was known too late for the class to be represented at the funeral services, but several of the class attended Ed's funeral and a floral tribute was arranged for. Further detail will be found in the Necrology section.
Arthur Boggs brings us up to date concerning himself in the following letter: "I have been in India, doing a hospital practice, since 192 a, except for a period of a year and a half in 1938-29. My family, consisting of my wife and two daughters, have been with me all the time, although the children have been away a good share of the time in an English boarding school in South India, about 500 miles from where we live. We are now on leave of absence for 18 months, and my wife and I expect to return to India this fall, leaving the children in America, the older one being ready for college and the younger one for sophomore year in high school. We came home by the Pacific this time, which gave us an opportunity to touch at Singapore, Hongkong, and Shanghai, and to spend five days in Japan, little realizing at the time how prominent these places were to be in the press so soon after our visits to them. Had the pleasure of spending two days with Russ Durgin and his very interesting family in Tokyo. And we had a Sukiyaki dinner with some friends including Mitsui, at which I thoroughly disgraced myself with my awkward handling of chopsticks. I had not seen either Durgin or Mitsui since 1915- Russ has become a very distinguished figure, internationally as well as locally, in Y. M. C. A. circles; while Mitsui seenled to me to epitomize business prosperity. We bought a used Ford soon after landing and drove it across the continent, but not until we had looked up a score of relatives on the Pacific coast, which took us as far north as Vancouver. My brother, who taught in the economics department at Dartmouth from 1911 to 1916, is teaching the same subject at Leland Stanford. I had not seen him for a 1 years. You inquired whether the East still tempts me. Well, I don't think I would choose the plains of South India as a place of residence; but I can't think of any place that I would rather work, because the need for medical work is so vast and so appalling, and the work so satisfying. This is too big a subject to embark upon now. My sincere regards to yourself and all our classmates." Art's address is 5 Ripley Terrace, Newton Center, Mass.
Kel Rose advises us that within the past month he had the pleasure of a visit with Male and Mrs. Macdonald; and that Chuck Ingram, the timber tycoon of Tacoma, was in New York sufficiently long for Kel to gather a few of the 1915 clan around his desk for a short reunion with Chuck.
Beardsley Ruml, treasurer of Macy's in New York and efficiency expert extra ordinary, has been appointed recently as deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.
Announcement has been made of the formation of the Sprague Electrical Supplies, Inc., of Waterbury and Bridgeport, Conn., as distributors of electrical supplies and equipment, with Johnny Mullin as treasurer, and Jack Saladine '17 as president.
Fifteen was well represented at Dartmouth's annual Boston dinner on February 9, with the following known to have been in attendance, Meader, Williams, Sherman, Shea, Crawford, Guest, Johnson, Huntress, Fuller, Clough, Downing, Martin, Richardson, Foster, Henderson, Tuck, Winship, and Barker. How many more remained in the cloakrooms and lobbies, we do not know.
Bill Huntress is busier than a hog on ice, organizing the class for "1915's 35th in 1940." Why he should pick on the overworked officers, no one knows, but anyhow he has delegated the officers and executive committee to arrange for their own demise, in having charge of the class meeting and dinner on the Saturday of reunion. Leave it to Bill.
Secretary, Orleans, Vt.
