Class of 1898
Ted Leggett always sends me some interesting notes, and the following are some of them.
"Swift sent me a postcard from Venice, dated April 17, stating that 'we' arrived there April 8 for a ten-day stay. After Florence, Rome, and Paris they will sail on the Queen Mary from Cherbourg on August 3. This meant that he will not be at the reunion, but he added 'give my best greetings to all members of the class of '9B.' "
"Witte will not be at the reunion, for his letter states that he expects to be several thousand miles away. No details embellished the statement, so your guess is as good as mine in which direction he will be traveling. With Witte not present, it may be that our class reunion may be held without a single chauffeur present!"
"Bob Brown will reune with us. He told a prospective bride, who had selected June 18 as her wedding day, to postpone her marriage a week or get another parson. That's the spirit!"
"Albert Smith will be there, and Melvin Smith won't. Albert will probably have to travel alone, as the chances of his being accompanied by any other member of the family are not good."
"Baldy Walker has not been too well lately, and on that account is not at all sure that he can make Hanover in June. He will try, but I rather got the impression from his letter that he doesn't expect to be there."
"Did I tell you that after I saw the Field letter in our Alumni Notes three or four months ago, I decided to follow him up for the Alumni Fund? Well, I did so and got back a fine letter from him with a check for the Fund—the first he has ever given."
"I also got a lovely letter from Guy Gary with a small gift for the Fund. This is his first contribution. His letter breathes great affection for both '9B and the College, and indicates sincere regret that a trip to Hanover in June was out of the question."
"The real aristocrat in vacations is John Gilman, for, using Hanover as his headquarters, he is going to spend the whole month of June running around New Hampshire and Vermont, looking up early associations. His wife will not be with him, as she plans to spend the time with her family in Kentucky. John is looking forward to a great time during that month, and I don't mean because his wife will be in Kentucky. He is certainly-looking forward to reunion."
Fred Bennis writes from his summer home at Sullivan Harbor, Me., as follows: "My feeling about the plan of meeting ata camp for a day and a half is that itought to give a grand chance to playaround with each other, and that ought tohelp us to polish up old friendships, andthat said polishing is one of the main objects of a reunion. So I am glad to givethe plan a tryout."
Margaret Walker Snow, daughter of Everard and Ruth Snow, is to be mar ried to Dr. Paul Vincent Woolley Jr. on Saturday, the fourteenth of May. Seth Pope is busy with the affairs of his native town of Sandwich, Mass.
Ruth Montgomery, daughter of classmate "Monty," has been admitted to Middlebury College and expects to enter there in the fall. There was only a chance for 125 and there were 650 applicants. Ruth however, made the grade, for she stood sixth in a class of 153 and was also a real leader in the class. I sincerely hope that some way may be found for Mrs. Montgomery and Ruth to join in our 40th Reunion and also for Mrs. David Macandrew and two daughters to be with us.
On June 30 at the summer home of the bride on Cape Cod will occur the marriage of Ruth Patricia Carney to Richard Mellier Burnes, a graduate of Harvard University.
If everyone had the deep sentiment for '9B that Denis Crowley has, we would have 100% attendance at the 40th Reunion. As it is, we are going to have a splendid attendance and I am convinced the best reunion we ever had. I have known Camp Wawona for thirty years, and we are in for one fine time there and then on to Hanover Friday, June 17, to begin the real Commencement at old Dartmouth.
The Secretary could not attend the first session of the secretaries on May 13, as he was speaking to the Kiwanis Club of Worcester that noon, so classmate Fred Lord kindly consented to substitute.
The Ichabod Cranes landed in New York April 11 and in Brattleboro April 12. They were passengers on the S. S. Virginia of the Panama-Pacific Line on its last trip from the Pacific Coast through the Panama Canal. The service has been indefinitely discontinued, fch and his wife had a very fine trip to Honolulu and return, all the way by water. Ted Leggett called on them in New York the day before the California sailed and Bunker Bishop ('ol—the younger Bunker) was at the pier to see them off. When they left Los Angeles Feb. 19 on the Lurline, Mushy Jones and his wife and daughter came to the boat to see them. Mushy lives in an apartment at Long Beach, only about seven miles from San Pedro and Wilmington, where all Los Angeles boats dock. On their return, the Cranes were in San Francisco two days and were hospitably entertained by the Young Indian Hewes, who took Ich on a tour of both the big new bridges, and by Semp Smith ('97) and his wife, both of whom went to St. Johnsbury Academy when Ichs wife was Mary Mastin and lived in St. Johnsbury. At Pasadena Mr. and MrsPete Adams entertained the Cranes at luncheon in their home, competently assisted by Pete's two boys, and when the Virginia sailed Mushy and his daughter were again on hand. At Panama Col. pillsbury ('O2) and his wife embarked. He is a brother of Pillsbury '95, and is an army surgeon in charge of sanitation at Panama and Colon. Judge and Mrs. Jackson of Salem, Mass., were also passengers. Mr. Jackson is not a Dartmouth graduate, but has a great many friends among the alumni, both young and old. Ich and his wife will be at the 40th and expect to have some of their three children and five grandchildren present at one time or another. The week following the Dartmouth Commencement they will go to Exeter to the graduation of their son Edward from the Phillips Exeter Academy. He expects to enter Dartmouth next fall in the class of 1942.
Ev Snow met recently in Boston a prominent citizen from Lowell, Mass. Ev spoke of the fact that he had for many years a beloved classmate by the name of Robert Marden living in Lowell. The gentleman from Lowell at once said, "He was ourfirst citizen in point of service to the cityand in point of well-earned popularity."
On Easter day, April 17, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Chandler, Edith Gray Chandler, was united in marriage to John Oliver Crawford Jr. The young couple are making their home in Needham. Miss Chandler is a graduate of Wheaton in the class of '34 and Mr. Crawford of Dartmouth in the class of '3O. The wedding was at the home of the bride in Plymouth, Mass. This is the third of the Chandler daughters to be married. There is one more to take this important step, and her sister's wedding gown was packed away with the youngest sister's name pinned to it. The two Chandler boys are still foot-loose and fancy-free.
Joe Bartlett spent a month at Miami Beach from February go to March 20 and had a grand time resting and swimming. No tennis or foot races were indulged in.
On May 6, Joseph W. Bartlett, president of the W. L. Douglass Shoe Company, was one of the orators at Rice Hall, the General Electric Company Research Laboratory. Joe was one of the speakers under the Farm Forum program. I presume his trusteeship of the Massachusetts ■State College was one of the factors that brought him to the attention of this program.
Secretary, 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.
