Class of 1904
"I had the great pleasure last week of an evening with our classmate Jig Leverone. He said that he had been two weeks trying to locate me, but this seems rather strange. If he had spoken to the first policeman he met, I could have been found inside of an hour. At any rate we had a delightful dinner together, and afterwards adjourned to a friend's house where for an hour and a half he gave us a clear and forceful exposition of the political, industrial and spiritual development in the United States over the past six years. I must confess that I never knew there was so much trouble in the world!
"Jig has made a place for himself in the commercial life of America, but it is a joy also to observe that he finds time to give of his talent and ability to the welfare of the College in his capacity as a member of the Alumni Council.
"I have been invited to be the guest speaker at the American Club in Bergen, Norway, on May 17th. I will send you one or two Norwegian papers in due time so that you can have the pleasure of reading about the proceedings!"
It's interesting to hear from the above that the old American method of dodging the cops is reversed in London. They all know Bob.
That "spiritual development" stuff Jig sold Bob must be a localized Chicago movement, I don't recognize it at all unless he means the good friend and good neighbor stuff, and I have felt that the "spiritual" element had been pretty well left out of that. That fellow Moseley has a weird idea of giving me pleasure . . . . sending me some Norwegian papers to read. However, if I get the papers, you'll get a translation.
One of our roving classmates headed from Texas to God's Country had to change cars at St. Louis at noon on April 7 th. He called the office of Bull Turner and learned that the roundup that day was too late for his train. However the resulting letter from Bull brings the good news that the Turner family are all OK and that he is greatly interested in being of any possible assistance in keeping 1904 out in froijt on the Alumni Fund. Bull had the privilege of showing L. B. '00 Richardson around St. Louis on the day of the St. Louis alumni gathering, March 31, and said that he keenly enjoyed the chance to get so much up to date college news. About eighty were present at the dinner to hear L. B.'s message from the college.
SATURDAY, MAY 28
The Rollins and Robinson families have made this a notable day in '04 annals by the following announcements: At the Robinson home, 210 Clifton Street, Belmont, Mass., at four o'clock, their daughter, Hope Elizabeth, will be married to Mr. Harvey Fisk Phipard Jr. At the South Congregational Church, Newport, N. H., at four-thirty o'clock, Louise Rollins will be married to Mr. Henry Clay Hawkins Jr. To the Rollins, the Robinsons, the Phipards and the Hawkins go the good wishes and hopes of the entire class.
EDWARD PHILIP LASKEY
Other columns in this number will record the accomplishments of Phil in his life work as a doctor, making possible great relief with radium in which he became interested early in his practice. His sudden death from a heart attack occurred on April 23, and the class was represented at the services at the Laskey home on Tuesday, April 26, by Everett Mathes who roomed with Phil throughout his college days, Ned Robinson, Bill Kneeland, Ferdinand Edgerly and the secretary. It was a privilege to spend a short time after the service with Philip Jr., now a freshman in Dartmouth, and his uncle. The sudden blow from the loss of men like Philip Laskey is tempered by the realization of the great good accomplished by a lifetime of devotion and service to an ever widening group of people in their community. The city-wide respect and sympathy shown at the service was a wonderful tribute of love for Phil and sympathy for the family.
As these notes are going to the MAGAZINE it is my privilege to spend three or four days a week as the seatmate of Senator Arthur Pinkham Gale of Jackson in Representatives Hall, Concord, where we are delegates to the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention. The first day, May 11 th, was the occasion of a visit with football chaser Ben 'OO Prescott who is in fine health and already planning his schedule for the coming football season. Senator Gale like myself has been inoculated by the winter bug and he is pretty much interested in a perpendicular ski-run in his back yard. Tinker went home via Boston from the session of the first week with a car load of grass seed and other garden possibilities in preparation for the reappearance of the many friends who feel that they can only live through the coming winter by spending a few weeks each summer with the Gales at Eagle Mountain House. Tinker has a new fly fishing announcement of interest Chick Weston and Beck Johnson better find out about it.
Shall we try to put the MAGAZINE in the hands of all members of the class next year and use it for building up enthusiasm for our thirty-fifth? It will be a sizeable expense, but it might develop a much greater reunion interest than any other possible way.
Secretary, Waterville Valley, Waterville, N. H. London Bobbies Know Bob
242 Liverpool Road, London, N. 1
