1916
Just to prove to the world and to the classes of 1915 and 1917 in particular that we are a virile group, (said classes have yet to realize 1916 is the finest class ever to graduate from Dartmouth College), let me announce the arrival of Donald White Lincoln on April 6. Maybe Abe and Elizabeth Lincoln aren't proud of their three boys, Richard 8 yrs. and David 5 yrs., and now Donald, real Dartmouth men. While I'm on the subject Hugh Livingston Cole belatedly reminds me that Shirley arrived a year ago. King now has two boys and three girls and adds a reminder that the Ray Devoes with their five, and the Englishes with their five, no longer hold the lead. Cliff Bean tells me that Bill Gaylord in South Hadley, Mass., has eight, which puts the Coles, Devoes, and Englishes in second place. King has bought him a big house in Beverly Hills, in the South End of Chicago. We in the East like big houses because it means a housewarming. Right now I'm informed Helene and Frank Bobst are building a gold-plated mansion out in Belmont, Mass., just for the purpose of holding a housewarming for Balmacaan. Take warning, Helene and Frank, for the boys passed a resolution at the meeting the other night, to hold a housewarming in your new home when completed.
On May 4, the Boston alumni staged a "Hovey Hum, at which 450 men sang the songs of Dartmouth's poet laureate, drank beer, and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Sam Cutler, Gil Tapley, Dick Ellis, Parker Hayden, Dick Parkhurst, Howdy Parker, Alec Jardine, Gran Fuller, and yours truly were present.
Speaking of grandfathers, we have another one in the class in Cap Mason. Cap has two splendid stepsons through one of whom Cap qualifies as a grandpop, while the second son is playing tennis as a sophomore at the University of Missouri. Cap has added a few inches to his waist line, a few gray hairs at his temples, and keeps busy as personnel manager for the big Kansas City, Mo., Sears Roebuck store.
The Jardines just returned from a trip through Virginia, visiting the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, William and Mary at Williamsburg, and Sweet Briar. Of course, it is the hope of Boston Balmacaan that the Jardines will feel another housewarming is necessary this fall, at their big Wellesley mansion. We wouldn't for the world, Estelle and Alec, want you to think we are hinting.
Wilberforce "Beans" Sully Jr. announced the removal of his law office to 90 Broad St. The firm is Flynt and Sully.
Johnny Pell on his recent trip through New York state found the elusive Hap Ward at home in Olean. Hap is living the life of a country gentleman, with his main object in life to care for and bring joy to his darling mother. In this day and age it is a real joy to receive news of this kind. Believe me, the ALUMNI MAGAZINE has pulling power, on the word of an advertising tycoon. One George Dock Jr. of Doremus & Company, 120 Broadway, as a result of an article in the April issue on the college naturalist, Weaver, took up bird-banding in earnest, just to keep his mind off Albania and the Axis. His backyard looks like an automobile graveyard,
Believe me, the ALUMNI MAGAZINE has pulling power, on the word of an advertising tycoon. One George Dock Jr. of Doremus & Company, 120 Broadway, as a result of an article in the April issue on the college naturalist, Weaver, took up bird-banding in earnest, just to keep his mind off Albania and the Axis. His backyard looks like an automobile graveyard, with its bird traps of all sizes and descriptions. By the way, you will remember there was a wonderful article by George on migratory birds in one of the big magazines fast fall. George writes me he has not seen Perc Burnham since the hurricane last fall, when Perc was trying to remove a fallen giant tree from his Brooklyn garden.
News from Washington: I was sorry to learn of Betty Wilson's illness, but according to last reports, Betty is now better. If I were to write a letter of pioneer America, Betty Wilson would be my prototype of the pioneer woman. I just wish someone would check up on Van Wyck and Selma Mott's new 42-foot cruiser that cruises the Potomac, and if it's true, baptize it in a real Balmacaan manner.
Like father, like son. Bob Harvey Jr. '42, son of Bob Harvey, had an average of 4.0 first semester. By the way, Mrs. Bob Harvey is a sister of Sterling Wilson, so the Dartmouth tradition and brains are hereditary.
Ros Magill visited Hanover the last week in March to speak to the classes in Public Finance and Political Science. Ros is certainly sold on the genius and brains of the present undergraduates, for judging by the present crop, he really believes our college generation were uneducated.
I just had a wonderful letter from Dr. Phillips "Phil" N. Davis, now at 205 Humboldt Building, St. Louis. Phil got his M.D. at the University of Vermont, but his heart and soul are still rooted in Hanover. Phil's hobby is taking care of the athletic injuries suffered by the many athletes at- tending high schools in St. Louis. His four boys are all girls, just like Gil Tapley. Phil is still selling Dartmouth to the Midwest, as witness many of the fine lads who have come from that area, such as Fred Hollingworth. Phil gets up to Hanover now and then, and was kabitzing this summer as Walt Humphreys was painting his murals. He had a reunion with Perc Burnham in New York in January. Perc and Phil served on the U. S. Northern Pacific transport, after the Armistice. Occasionally Hiram McLellan on his way to Vermont from Texas, calls at Phil's office; so does Roy Brahana, and Hugo Gumhart, the steel salesman.
By the way, Phil tells me that Dan Dinsmor's son, who enters Dartmouth this fall, secured the highest grade of any student ever graduated from Webster High School, and holds the highest I.Q. in the state, and that's something.
Major Lawrence C. Mitchell is now stationed at the American Embassy, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Gus Browne is the new general manager of the Park Square Building, Inc., Boston. Freddie Bailey is the new sales manager o£ Crown Lingerie Company, 33 Edinboro St., Boston. Roy Burnham is a full professor of Math at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Gray haired Jack Curtin is in the General Sales, Motor Division, General Electric, Schenectady. N. Y. Ken Henderson is the Pooh-Bah of Ditto, Inc., meaning vice president, secretary, and treasurer. Austin Jenison is in the insurance business in Lansing, Mich. Bill Noble is with the New England Mutual Life at 220 Union State Bank Building, Omaha, Neb. Martin Linihan, the silent one, is now district sales manager for the International Salt Cos., Marine Trust Bldg., Buffalo, N. Y. Henry Stieglitz has taken over the Metropolitan Life agency at 815 Broadway, Brooklyn. James "Desperate" Desmond is doing free lance writing for the movies, out in Culver City, Calif. Robert S. "Bob" Townsend is doing the same free-lancing in Washington, D. C., with an address at 1447 Irving Trust, N. W.
When you read these notes, it will be nearly zero hour on the Alumni Fund, and if you haven't sent in your contribution, do so now, before you put the magazine down. Pleasant summer to all.
Secretary, 37 Maple St., Stoneham, Mass.
