1904*
URGENT
Will all delinquents within the sound of my voice sign and return immediately to Ike the card you received with the reunion program. Reservations for the class dinner, awards of prizes, and successful candidacy for office; all depend upon prompt receipt of the cards. Remember, too, the Bursar of the college must have your reservation for rooms and a negotiable check if you are to have a place for an occasional nap while in Hanover.
Some of these old buzzards are taking this matter pretty seriously, Sid, for instance, couldn't take enough time from his golf to see Dartmouth beat Harvard at Hanover. Other dark horses along the golf horizon are Sewall, Bartlett, Rolfe, Robinson, and Woods—a brief call at the Woods home a few weeks ago disclosed the fact that Carl's sunny disposition had soured because the late spring was holding up golf. This 35 year championship may become the event of the reunion.
New addresses are 3048 Fair Ave., Columbus, Ohio, for Murray Parker,—and Jack Sanderson (John F. to be exact), vice president and general manager, Ritz Tower, 57th Street & Park Avenue, New York City, with a residence at R.F.D. 5, Ridgefield, Conn. We have enjoyed Jack's presence in New Hampshire for the several summers he has been managing the Mount Washington Hotel at Bretton Woods, and I am hoping he will be with us again this summer.
It was a real pleasure to see Charlie '01 Boyle's picture in the recent folder of the new Dartmouth Club in New York. I have many pleasant remembrances of the thoughtful kindness of this big hearted Dartmouth end to a football freshman in the fall of 1900. Charlie, and Jack '02 O'Connor were the trail blazers for a long line of great Dartmouth ends.
In this publicity seeking age there are no recruits from 1904. All that's necessary to make a 1904 man move is to reach him where he lives with a request for facts to feed the class family. I'm like the hillside farmer with a big grove of hickory trees which produced good income each fall. The nuts from one tree were the largest and best flavored in the grove, but defied all efforts to crack them. The farmer's customary remark was, "Them nuts is plum full of meat, but I reckon God's savin' em for seed." Do I make myself clear?
Paul Favour is back from Hollywood, and rumor indicates that he plans to return there for his old age. If you wait that long, Paul, Hanover will be the center of Art, Drama, and Cinema in this country. Elmer and Mrs. Brennon are planning to be with us for most of the reunion period. They have recently announced the engagement of their daughter, Barbara, to Mr. Albert Whitcomb, a graduate of M.I.T. who is an electrical engineer in the Boston office of the New Eng. Tel. and Tel. Cos. Barbara will receive her degree of B.S.E. at Lowell Teachers College. June 7. Their son, who has been in the insurance office of Fred C. Church & Cos. since graduating from Dartmouth, will be married on June 10th. With Elmer's twenty-eighth year in the Lowell High School finished and a graduation and wedding just accomplished, the quiet, restful days of reunion will appeal to the Brennons and their cocker spaniel.
Recent news from Mrs. Laskey, Jean, and Phillip Jr., brings a greeting and good wishes for the reunion, with a special word for Phil's many friends.
Bob Moseley hoped to be with us but rumor indicates that conditions in England will keep him there. His son, now at Exeter, enters College in September. Here's hoping we see Bob then.
In the village of Glencoe, 111., lives one Frank Stowell. For a number of years Frank was a member of the village trustees, and is now village treasurer, and a director of the Glencoe Municipal Golf Club also of the North Continent Utilities Corp. These are all side lines showing his community interest. The real job is the successful Chicago contracting business under the name of Frank H. Stowell & Cos. Frank's oldest daughter lives in Hanover; her husband, Joseph Shepard Tidd is on the faculty as an instructor in Biology (Botany). One son graduated from Kenyon College, and his other daughter and Frank H. Jr. are at home. Surely with family ties to bring him to Hanover as well as the opportunity to spend a few days with the class we should see him next month.
Li Holton is driving to the reunion and bringing a young man named Blanchard, who is said to have some friends in the class. I'm hoping they arrive via the Waterville Valley. It is rumored that our Earl may also be a passenger. Li's two sons are at the Univ. of Wisconsin—Dick in the Junior class, and George a freshman.
Pestered to death with suggestions that Penfield and John Henry Kirker Jr. be given the same job—it doesn't sound logical to me yet, but the substantial interests in each camp must be fed the same medicine, so this beautifully mated pair "14 hands high" and Mower are hereby designated to lead the class as marshals in the alumni parade at 11:00 Saturday morning.
The class memorial exercises have been changed from Saturday, June 17th to Sunday morning, June 18th.
We have been expecting to have Major Robert R. (Bob Curly) Brown with us in Hanover and it now appears that there may be an enforced change in his plans, but if he comes through an engagement early in June with some of the medical profession, he will be present.
Kimmy A. W. writes that he doesn't expect to join us in Hanover, but that he is consoling himself with the society of a grandson—Charles Kimball Jr., born last June.
Bob Falconer will be in Hanover and join in our reunion events. Bob's son is graduating this year.
Sex, Robbie, Matt, John Cronin, Carl, Pete, and Ike had dinner before the Hovey Hum at the University Club, Boston, May 4th. The high school training of John Cronin was the principal topic, supplemented by reunion plans. They were thumbs down on some reunion ideas of the writer as being too frivolous. Why not have a forward looking viewpoint and begin to enjoy the years of second childhood? Does anyone expect to be "his age" on June 17th and 18th? The truth may be evident on the 19th.
Until the big event, further communications and reunion news will be through the versatile columns of Ralph Sexton's bulletins and other possible notices of the general committee. May I urge each of you to come to Hanover for commencement this month; remember the reunion cannot be complete if you are absent. If the trip is a long one to make alone get in touch with Ike's committee or with me. It's better than an even bet there's someone else coming from your general direction who would be glad to prolong the reunion period by travelling with some member of the class. I'm looking forward to seeing all the class at Hanover. If attendance is quite impossible write a letter for our headquarters reading table. It will be enjoyed by everyone present.
Here they are—RUSSELL SAGE HALL, June 16-17-18
Austin, Bartlett, Blanchard, Brewer, Brotherhood, Brennon, Bullock, Charron, Davis, Doonan, Edgerly, Favour, Gale, Ham, Hobbs, Holton, Johnson, Kneeland, Lampee, Leverone, Logan, McKennis, Maguire, Manguerian, Maynard, Mower, Nolan, Robinson, Rolfe, Rollins, Sewall, Sexton, Slayton, Streeter, Webster, Weston, Willard, Witham, Woodbridge, Woods, Safford, Phelps, Moulton, Fletcher, Brayton, Kirker, Cronin, Durgin, Colesworthy, Ford, Uniac. There are others since this list was made—Hanover in June with this crowd? Of course YOU will join us.
Secretary, Waterville Inn, Waterville Valley, N. H.
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