1904*
The Annual Dinner of the Boston Alumni Association was, as usual, a high point in the Dartmouth winter season and it was a help no-end to the Secretary as a source of news for this, the final issue of the year. There was a good turnout including Perkins, Newmark, O'Connor, Burleigh, Fletcher, Barnes, Aborn, Lawrence, Drake, H. Brown, Chandler, Austin, and Saltmarsh,
We learned, among other things, that Bill Herlihy has been made Vice President of the State Street Trust Company, Boston. Bill, as you know, specializes in trust work and we send congratulations on his well deserved promotion.
It came out that Cap Lawrence, in addition to his life as gentleman farmer, manufacturer, and what-all, is one of the leading equestrians in his riding town of Groton.
We learned, too, that the Chandlers have a daughter now five months old and Caroline by name.
Ducky Drake has a couple of high-powered wrestlers coming along in his family. Don, 16, is 6'½" and weighs 175 pounds, and won the State School Boy Championship held at Tufts College last year, and he is a co-Captain this year. His brother, Bob, 17, is 6'2" and weighs 155 pounds. He's on the second team and still hoping for a victory. We understand the lads are coached by the good doctor who, when the going gets tough, takes recourse behind his arthritis to call it a day. Part of their prowess Hal Brown insists is due to the Drakes' web feet, which we mention feeling that the column is allowed at least one pun per year.
Incidentally, Hal Brown's daughter, Lois, graduates from Mount Holyoke this year. She is specializing in biology and last summer did work with a field class in Wyoming, another member of which was Whit Miller, last year's football captain.
There were stories too about the fish caught by Sherm Saltmarsh. There is no denying these stories because Salty digs out the pictures to prove them and this year's fishing through the ice showed some remarkable strings.
Altogether it was a very pleasant dinner.
There was universal regret at the absence of Jimmy Gregg whom we understand was prevented attending by having had to preside at a church supper!
The sympathy of the Class is extended to Alec Tuck and his brother, Pinckney, on the death of their mother, Mrs. Emily Marshall Tuck. Mrs. Tuck died at her home in Hampshire, England, at the age of eighty-two. The Class will recall that Alec entered college from Egypt where his father was for many years a member of the International Court at Cairo.
We are indebted to Jack Conners for the most complete class list which he has compiled from correspondence with the various members. Jack is still in a receptive mood to receive a few more class dues from the boys who have forgotten to send them along up to now, and we think his efforts should be supported. So, why don't you send in yours?
Paul Brown is now located at 938 Plymouth Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he is President of the Fuelmiser Co., Inc.
George Wheatley has moved back to Massachusetts, being located in Abington, and continues in the insurance business.
Doc Bullis is now living at 1140 Kenmore Avenue in Buffalo.
Recently in the Lynn Item among a column of leaders of that city is included our classmate, Richard J. White Jr. Among Dick's many civic community activities are the chairmanship of the Lynn Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is Captain of the 319th Medical Regiment Reserve Officers' Training Corps, served as Commander of the Lynn Post 291 and has represented the Legion at numerous state and national conventions. In 1930 he was in charge of the federal census in Essex County and served, likewise, as deputy sheriff. A few years ago he decided to take up law and in 1937 graduated from Suffolk Law School and was admitted to the Bar. He is active in service group work and last year was elected President of the North Shore Dartmouth Club. With his wife, Jean, he resides at 8 Upham Road, Lynn.
We are indebted to Roger Rice for this interesting expose of Dick White's achievements. Thanks to you, Roger, and congratulations, Dick, on your interesting career which you have so long hidden under a bushel.
We almost forgot to tell you to be sure and look back on the front cover of the December issue of the MAGAZINE. The airplane bearing Santa Claus was the work of "Squeak" Piane, and of this work John and Madeleine should be and are justly proud. We're sorry, Squeak, we forgot to tell your father's classmates about this before Incidentally, we understand that the young man was going off the big ski jump last winter and came through the season without a single bad spill.
Have you sent in your Alumni Fund contribution? Of course you plan to, so why don't you do it now?
Ellsworth B. Buck, former vice president and chairman of the committee on buildings and sites of the New York City Board of Education, was reappointed by Mayor LaGuardia to a full seven-year term. Says the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, "News of Mr. Buck's reappointment was received with enthusiasm at the Board of Education headquarters Buck, president of L. A. Dreyfus Company and member of the Republican party says he has attended only one political meeting in his life. As a member of the board, he quickly established a reputation for sponsoring progressive ideas in the schools. His two general aims were to eliminate politics and political pressure from school appointments and to allow the schools to be utilized to the fullest extent by all tax-paying groups."
A pleasant summer to you all!
Secretary, 367 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.
Class Agent, Young and Rubicam 285 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y.
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