1905*
A recent letter from Shirley Cunningham states that he is doing the big open spaces this spring on an extended business trip to the West and Southwest, from April to June. He was rather taciturn about the business yield, but was a revelation regarding the building booms now being enjoyed by some of the Midwest universities.
Varsity Billman has written that he was involved in an auto accident in March, which wrecked his car and put him out of circulation for several days. The car had to be sold for junk and replaced with a new one. He reports the twins are growing and getting into everything about the house. His new address is Route 4, Box 149, Sebastopol, Calif.
Rufus Day had an article, "American Youth Looks at Its Future," in the March 18 number of School and Society. The article was originally the address he gave at the fourth general sessions of the American Association of School Administrators, held in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 27. Dr. Day has been appointed by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York as a member of the College Council.
From Allen Graves:—"There is nothing that I can tell you about myself, like '01' Man River, Jess Rolling Along!' Was feeling a physical wreck at one time a short while back and really got very sore because an undertaker, who is a friend, asked me how I was feeling. I am so much better now that I forget about it. My girls are grown, but not gone. Still hanging around the old feed basket, and along with all other young Americans, they are suffering from scarcity of jobs. Lucy graduated from Hunter College and is temporarily employed as a N. Y. A. supervisor in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Roselyn was classified as an upper sophomore at N. Y. U., but Old Man Depression called a halt in further attendance. Goldie spent two years at the National Academy of Design, but the same man or dog bit her or me, whichever way you look at it. Both of these are waiting for the corner to get out of the way of Mr. Prosperity, or like Wilkins Micawber, 'for something to turn up.' Allene is attending Hunter at present."
The marriage of Miss Harriett Boit Wiswall, daughter of Tom and Mrs. Wiswall, to Mr. George Harrison Bigelow of Marlboro, Mass., occurred March 11 in St. Barnabas' Church, Falmouth, Mass. The bride was graduated from Pine Manor Junior College and the Garland School of Home Making. Mr. Bigelow is a graduate of Massachusetts State College, class of 1934, and is engaged in landscape architecture. They will make their home in Falmouth.
Our congratulations and best wishes.
A recent article in the Boston Transcript spoke enthusiastically of the present successful era of Lillard's Tabor Academy athletic teams. "Inaugurated when the eleven finished a rugged schedule with only one loss, this successful cycle continued into the winter months both on the basketball court and on the board track. Now it is up to the diamond nine and the eight-oared crew to keep the ball rolling." Chances of winning teams in both of these sports are very promising.
The class wishes to extend its sympathy to Elsie Grover at the death of his father, Frank S. Grover, on April 15.
The "Hovey Hum," May 4, met with a popular response, as was evident by the large attendance. Lew Wallis, with his brother as guest, Jake Smith and Harding represented '05.
Jake led the first cheer after being introduced by George Liscomb '07, as the man who led the first cheer for Dartmouth in the Harvard Stadium back in 1903. He displayed the same old pep as cheer leader.
Jake is working hard in behalf of the bill he introduced in the New Hampshire legislature for the propagation of clams, claiming that it ought to pass and probably will. He is pointing to Chicago as a proper field for the introduction into the Midwest of this well-known bivalve, and although this metropolis does not yet know it, if it does not fall in line Jake will go out there and personally supervise a little forcible feeding.
Recently a very interesting letter came in from Gib Fall, who is a strong supporter of the MAGAZINE group plan and claims he does not know how he could get along without it. He writes that he is looking forward to the Thirty-Fifth Reunion next year and will be there if he is still able to move. He misses contact with the class, as there are no 'O5 men in Philadelphia and very few who were in college with us. Occasionally he meets Fred Chase's brother Philip, which is an indirect tie to the class. Gib gets back to Hanover nearly every summer for a few days, and visits his old home in Somersworth, N. H., and then spends the rest of the season at his cottage on Lake Wequaket, near Hyannis, Cape Cod. A standing invitation is given to the fellows to drop in on him there early and often.
The class will be saddened to learn of the death of Dorothy Putnam Falconer, on April 15, at Ponemah, N. H., after an illness of five years. Mrs. Falconer, a native of New York, was a daughter of the late Major George Haven Putnam, who was for many years head of G. P. Putnam's Sons, publishers, and Mrs. Rebecca Shepard Putnam. She was a niece of Dr. Mary Jacoby, one of the first woman physicians, and a cousin of George Palmer Putnam, who married the late Amelia Earhart, aviatrix.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, April 18, in Mt. Auburn Cemetery Chapel, Cambridge, Mass. A memorial service will be held May 16, at St. Paul's Church, Nutley, N. J.
Mrs. Falconer had attended with Bob all our reunions since the Tenth, and was held in high esteem by every one who had been privileged to make her acquaintance on these occasions.
Bob and their son Haven have our deepest sympathy.
Secretary, Rm. 703, 52 Chauncy St., Boston
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