1907*
As the College year starts the class secretaries and ALUMNI MAGAZINE officers are actively engaged in promoting the group subscription plan, the objective of which is to place the MAGAZINE in the hands of every Dartmouth graduate! Before you read these notes, you will have received an appeal from your secretary, urging you to give your personal support to this tremendously important program. To quote from a recent Dartmouth Secretaries Bulletin:
"With the adoption of the 100% Group Subscription Plan by a majority of classes this year, we all have a marvelous opportunity to build and strengthen the interest of men in every class—their interest in each other and in the affairs of the class and the College."
If you have not already mailed your class dues and your MAGAZINE subscription to your secretary, please do so now.
It is a great and unusual pleasure to be able to report on the interesting activities of Dwight W. Hiestand. Dwight has been director of music for the past five years in the Central High School of San Juan, Puerto Rico, a senior high school with an enrollment of 3,000 pupils. Known in his school and community as Senor Dwight W. Hiestand, Director de Musica, he has recently produced and directed performances of Verdi's "II Trovatore" in Italian, "Rigoletto," "Lucia di Lammermoor" and Mozart's "The Magic Flute." He spent the summer of 1938 in Paris studying French opera and later traveled through southern France. During a previous summer he visited all the West Indies islands down to British Guiana, and was a member of an expedition making a 500-mile trip into the interior jungles of that country. In 1936 he received an M. A. degree from the University of Georgia and became a member of the honorary society Kappa Delta Pi. Dwight has four children all "on their own," doing well, and respectively located in West Virginia, Alabama, Texas and California.
A recent message from South Africa from the Class Baby, Mary Beals, reports snow in July and tells a most interesting story of her school and mission activities. Her father, Charles Beals, writes from his home in East Bridgewater, Mass., that his older son Charles completed a course last June in Architectural Construction at Wentworth Institute, Boston, Mass. Charles financed his course himself and is now about to fare forth in the building industry.
The death of Floyd Tangier Smith of Mastick, L. I. on July 12 was reported in New York papers. Floyd is described as an explorer and big game hunter who traveled extensively in remote parts of China and brought back many rare animals during a period of more than twenty years of exploration. Ed Barker writes that Floyd left Hanover after Sophomore year, went on to Bowdoin and graduated in 1908. Following his graduation, he roomed with Ed Barker and Harry Romayne in New York. At that time he was employed by the International Banking Corporation and was later sent by them to the Far East. Ed lost track of him at that time and class mail directed to him during the intervening years has regularly been returned to the sender. Press notices state that Floyd started his explorations in China in 1916 and that in 1930 he returned to China as the head of the Marshall Field Zoological Expedition. At that time he had intended to devote five to ten years to a survey of the distribution of animal life in China, Siberia, Indo-China, Siam and Tibet. Finding chaotic conditions prevailing in China, however, he returned in 1932. Again in 1937, he is reported to have gone to Western China where he found and succeeded in bringing back alive four giant pandas, one for the New York Zoological Park in the Bronx. Floyd, born in Japan of missionary parents, was 57 years of age at the time of his death and is survived by his wife and a sister.
A visit from Dick Goode during the summer finds Dick connected with the Burton-Furber Coal Company of Boston, selling coal and fuel oil. Some months ago our classmate E. L. Ashley asked the secretary to send him a complete list of names and addresses of the members of our class because he is constantly traveling all over the West and wanted to look up some of them. Are there others who would like to have the same useful information?
A quintet of '07 sons was graduated from Hanover last June. The five new alumni are:
Colin Churchill.
Robert Cushman
Gene King, "with distinction" in History.
William Martin, Class Poet, Cum Laude, "with distinction" in Sociology. He won the Barge Gold Medal for Oratory, and the Grimes prize for English Composi- tion.
Richard Storrs, Summa Cum Laude, "with greatest distinction" in Medical Sciences. Awarded the Warren prize for Scholarship.
The following is from classmate George I iscomb:
"Seven '07ers,—the same number of classmates as attended the Dartmouth dinner in Paris in 1918 (and who were they?), were hummers at the Hovey Party in Boston last May. They included Pierce, Plummer, Niles, McCann, Burns, Fassett and Liscomb. These and twice as many more are expected at the '07 a la carte or free lunch get-together in Room 528 of the University Club of Boston at 6:00 P.M., Friday, October 27, the night before the Harvard game. Come and watch the eclipse! 'Ah! the remembrance of those happy days, The music and the laughter and the wit, The cups that smiled with glimmerings of sweet wine, Age shall grow mellow with the thought of it.'
RICHARD HOVEY."
Interesting information of the marriage on July 29 of Bill Smart to Mrs. Ruth Hedgcock Bidle of Cambridge and of their trip to the West, Northwest and Canadian Rockies will be given you in the next issue of the MAGAZINE.
Secretary, 140 Federal St., Boston
