1898*
Joe Bartlett will soon be spreading his wings for the balmy South. Would that we all could go down and try that climate in midwinter!
On December 17, at an afternoon tea, Joe and Kit Carney announced the engagement of their daughter Catherine to Lieut, (jg) John N. Theis, U.S.N. Catherine is a graduate of Vassar 1935, and Lieut. Theis graduated from Annapolis in the same year and is now assigned to the U.S.S. Brooklyn. The wedding will be
in April. The Secretary received a very interesting book from "Christian Endeavor" Clark.
Harry Clark is now in Washington, D. C. His address is 1424 11th St., N. W.
Bob Osborne, the associate in the United States Trust Company, N. Y., of Fritz Robbert, and who was the guest of Fritz at the 40th last June and made such a hit with the other reuners, has been in the N. Y. Hospital, having had a serious operation.
The last week in December the Secretary was on the island of Martha's Vineyard for two days, hunting rabbits with his Dartmouth sophomore son Robert. Our party succeeded in shooting ten and the Pateys brought home six. Rabbit stew composed of potatoes, carrots, onions, and tender rabbit made a delicious feast.
The leader of the 4-H Club on Martha's Vineyard is a lady, and spoke very highly of George Farley's splendid leadership of that great organization.
The Secretary is feeling quite set up these days, for Charles Littlefield sent him recently a poem dedicated to the Secretary and, believe me, Charles is some poet.
I received a nice note from our class humorist Edward D. Chandler and also a check for his subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Practically the entire class has now subscribed for the magazine.
If anyone gets a note from Harrison L. Nichols I wish he would let me know, for I have not yet succeeded in getting a reply.
The Secretary and his wife had all their children home for Christmas and had a joyous time. Son Robert, a Dartmouth sophomore, was full of enthusiasm for his father's college, and the baby of the family, Barbara, had pleasant things to say of her life at Mount Holyoke.
Seth Pope has been keeping bachelor hall of late, as his wife has been having a very happy time with their two daughters in the Middle West.
The Secretary received recently a good letter from Melvin W. Smith, one of the members of our class that can always be counted on for loyalty to the class and to the College. I am sure the class extends its sympathy to Melvin in the recent accident to his good wife, and we hope she will soon be restored to her usual health.
Ev Snow is still an inspiration to a host of young people at Burdett Business College.
"Billie" Williams still wields a very facile pen. The Secretary got a letter from Bill the other day, and wishes he could read it to the entire class.
Some of our '98 men called on Selden Smith '97 when he was stopping at the Bellevue Hotel with Mrs. Smith the first two weeks in November. My genial colleague of the old well-known firm of Smith and Patey is as courageous as ever, and we all hope that his usual splendid health will be restored to him. Semp has always been very loyal to Dartmouth and to '97. When I recalled to him that '98 trimmed '97 in football he replied, "There are some things it is well to forget."
The Secretary will soon be sending to every member of the class for letters for the '98 News we are planning to get out within the next few weeks. So be saving any items of interest in your own life, in the lives of your children, and of your grandchildren.
All hats off to Richard Parkhurst 1916 for winning a six-year case involving fifty millions of dollars before the Supreme Court of the nation! The port of Boston, over which Dick keeps a watchful eye, will greatly benefit by this hard-fought and successful fight.
The next important date to keep in mind is that of the Boston Dartmouth Alumni Dinner to be held February 2, at Hotel Somerset. '98 is expected to have a full table this year. '97 has beaten us now for a number of years, and it is high time that we catch up. So let all New England members of the class plan to be on hand on the evening of February 2.
Mr. and Mrs. Ichabod (E. H.) Crane expect to sail from Boston, Saturday, Feb. 11, on the Lady Drake of the Canadian National Steamships Line for Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies, where they will be at the Queen's Park Hotel for a week, returning to Boston on the same steamship on March 13.
Secretary, 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.
* 100% subscribers to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, on class group plan.
