1893*
Your Acting Secretary attended the Alumni Council Meeting in New York the Friday night before the Yale game and was much pleased to find that McKay had come on from Rochester to the Meeting. We immediately arranged to sit together at the Dartmouth-Yale game and, taking it all in all, the writer, at least, had a very enjoyable time. You all know that we trounced Yale by a decided score, pleasing to us who have seen Yale many times prior to '35 give Dartmouth a beating. McKay looks fine and is very active and sprightly.
A letter from Judge Griffith, giving some data regarding the Alumni Fund and '93 participation in it is most interesting. In the College year of '37 and '3B, there were twenty-three contributors to the Alumni Fund out of a possible fifty-two. During the College year of '3B and '39, there were twenty-eight contributors to the Alumni Fund, an increase of 22 per cent.
'93's contributed volume for the College year of '37 and '3B was $356 whereas the volume for '3B-'39 was $379, an increase of over 6 per cent. The quota which was assigned for '93 was $715, so you can see that we contributed but 53 per cent of the quota expected. Perhaps we can do better next spring when the time comes for the '39-'40 contribution.
Incidentally, we learn that "Eddie" has recently been elected President of the Equinox Country Club at Manchester, Vermont, which, as many of us know, has held national golf tournaments in years gone by and is considered one of the finest courses in the country. He also is Vice-President of the Probate Judges' Association of Vermont; having held office for over thirty years, he ranks second in this respect in the state.
Our Secretary writes a cheerful letter and says he is feeling fine. He mentions the fact that Dr. Pitt Joyce is now located in Derry, New Hampshire, the home'town of our own Judge Ted Weston and the Reverend Saltmarsh. Your Acting Secretary called on Weston at his office and regrets that he was not in, although we did enjoy visiting with his secretary for a little while. We had better luck at Derry Village where we found Saltmarsh at home, feeling fine and very active in his work as Business Manager of Pinkerton Academy.
"Skid" also advises that Harry Metcalf has, in company with his son-in-law, Paul Martineau, resumed charge of his newspaper at Newport, New Hampshire. We saw Harry and Mrs. Metcalf at the Dartmouth-Lafayette game at Hanover and they both looked very well, indeed.
Speaking of the Lafayette game, Dr. "King" Martyn and your Acting Secretary met at Reed Hall the morning before the game and spent a little time trying to locate the '93 class tree. We are under the impression that this tree was in front of the entrance to Reed Hall, and we believe that a very vigorous tree which we found there is the '93 tree, but we would like the corroboration of any of you who remember about this. Please write your recollection on this matter.
The "King" appeared well both at the Lafayette game and later at the Harvard game which we both attended. At the Harvard game, we met Stephen P. Martyn, son of our own "King." Steve is located at Springfield, Vermont and is responsible for the "King's" only grandson, named Stephen P. Jr., born June 6, 1936.
October twenty-first, our old friend, Professor ("Dude") Colby, died. (See necrology.) It has been a habit with some of us to call on Professor Colby whenever we were in Hanover, and at Commencement time last June, Griffith and I followed this custom. His mind was alert although his sight was practically gone at that time. He is probably the second last of our old teachers; Professor George D. ("Tute") Lord, whom we also saw at Commencement time and who appeared very well, is, we believe, the only one left.
Zack Chandler has recovered completely from his serious operations of last spring but was suffering from a bad cold at the time of our visit in October. He is the same old Zack who adheres to his beliefs and principles with all the tenacity of his very strong character. I presume that is why he makes such an especially good judge. He has a beautiful home in Andover located close to Phillips Academy, details of the care of which are under the direction of the very gracious Mrs. Chandler.
On our trip to Hanover and return at the time of the Lafayette game, we stopped for a few moments at Claremont to visit with Dr. Harry Sanders at his office. He appeared very sprightly. Regretted that demands of patients cut our visit short. We had not seen each other for going on twenty years and short though it was, it still was a pleasing call.
We also called on Abbott at Greenfield who seemed to us to be a little better than at the time of our call in the spring. He is cheerful and interested in affairs. Mrs. Abbott told us that he had had over one hundred out-of-town visitors this year. Also learned from Mrs. Abbott, who had a letter from Sparhawk, that he has been very sick in Cincinnati with asthma. Would appreciate a letter with more details from him.
Stopped at Orange and saw Leach who has been sick all summer but is now on the road to recovery.
Had another very pleasant visit with Rowell at the Baker Junior High School in Maiden. John's two daughters are active in athletics and the younger is being groomed for high tennis honors by some of the leading tennis experts in this section. As we have written in previous letters, it is amazing the amount of work and the variety of the activities which prevail at this school. There seems to be no indication of discipline, but on the other hand, the behavior of the students and their attitude seems to be practically perfect. John must be a wonderful principal.
We note in the November ALUMNIMAGAZINE on page 54 that "Harlan Pearson, New Hampshire's best known newspaper man, dean of them all," claims that Emery, professor of English at Dartmouth, was the first Dartmouth professor to smoke cigarettes in public. "Skid" is regarded as an oracle on almost everything in the state of New Hampshire and this seems to be no exception to the rule. We do know that all over the state of New Hampshire in many of the weekly papers, "Skid" has a column and not only that, but daily his "Granite Chips" column in the Concord Monitor is an important part of that fine paper.
Secretary, Concord, N. H.
Acting Secretary, Upland Way, Barrington, R. I.
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