1911*
420 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. The announcement of John Pearson's coming to Hanover is a most welcome bit of news to the tiers now residing in Hanover and should also be of nearly as great interest to all other classmates. This makes one more reason why classmates will want to return to Hanover. The following paragraphs taken from editorials in the BOSTON GLOBE and the BOSTON TRAVELER respectively indicate the high regard in which John is held.
"For the past four years Mr. Pearson has been charged with the introduction and development of Federal Social Security in the New England states. His work has been a splendid example of skilled administration. It is to be regretted that he finds something more attractive than the public service, but in his new post his talents should continue to yield benefit to his fellow creatures."
"He has directed the local board quietly and with a high degree of efficiency since its inception. A member of the class of 1911, he returns to his Alma Mater to give wider application of his administrative abilities to humanitarian purposes. Dartmouth gains a remarkably valuable man."
Dave Swain has the sympathy of the class and especially of those who had the privilege of knowing his wife, Anna, who died at the New York Hospital after a brief illness on April 24 th. Funeral services were held in the Congregational Church at White Plains and interment at Nantucket, Massachusetts. She leaves two children, Richard and Nancy. A letter of appreciation for flowers sent in the name of the class has been received from Dave.
Good old Chet Butts reported on the annual Boston Alumni Dinner and kicked in with the information that the lgners present consisted of Chick Jordan, John Pearson, John Learoyd, Syd Beane, Shorty Mayo, Stan Macomber, Josh Clark, Howard Clute, Gabe Farrell, and himself. Not a bad representation.
The news of Ed Chamberlain's home address in Chicago has come through and is hereby passed on as being 318 Wisner Avenue, Park Ridge, Illinois.
Bill Herron continues in the building business with headquarters in Lakeland, Florida, at 1128 South Florida Avenue. Bill and his wife and three kids live at 2320 New Jersey Road, in the same town.
Josh Clark '43 has just been awarded the $25.00 Art Department Prize for his canvas, "Queer Street," which was chosen by members of the Art faculty from paintings shown at the Community Art. Exhibit in the Carpenter Galleries.
Harold Burtt who has been on the Ohio State staff since 1919 has just been selected as chairman of the Department of Psychology of that university. He has written several books in the field of applied psychology and has held various offices in the American Psychological Association.
The following wedding announcement should be of general interest. "Mr. and Mrs. Warren Cram Agry announce the marriage of their daughter, Marian Fairbanks, to Doctor Robert Chambliss Berson on Saturday, the thirteenth of April, one thousand nine hundred and forty, at Christ Church, Nashville, Tennessee.—At Home after April the twenty-second, 134 Church Street, Ripley, Tennessee."
If anyone thinks that running a hotel like the Mountain View House is just a little summer job, listen to the following and see what Frank has been doing since the hotel closed last fall. The fall and winter of a year ago was spent in clearing up hurricane debris which, however, was merely looking forward to last fall when out of the timber salvaged was built a beautiful new clubhouse situated out somewhere beyond the tennis courts and in the middle of the seventh and eight fairways. From May until Thanksgiving a large crew of men with trucks, horses, dynamite, caterpillar tractor, bull-dozer, and steam shovel worked steadily to complete three new fairways, tees and greens. These were all seeded in the fall and will be ready for play with the opening of the hotel on June 15th. The first tee is southeast of the tennis court just a step from the west porch of the new clubhouse. The first green is a terrace lying against the woods 410 yards in the distance. As you drive toward this green you are looking directly at the Presidential Range. The second tees are to the east of the green against some handsome fir spires. This fairway, 364 yards long, is guarded on each side by large sand traps. The green, a replica of one at St. Andrews and one at Bermuda's Mid-Ocean, consists of three parts, the terrace, the crescent and the valley. The third tee is across the road and is longer than any other hole you have seen at Mountain View; namely 510 yards. It is up over the hill and down a long slope to a circular green well shaped to receive a pitch approach, but not too much space for running up, with deep traps on the sides and in front at one comer. Then the old number two tee becomes the present number four. The next five holes remain the same as before for the coming summer. The former number six has become number eight, and number one ends on old number nine as before.
This is how Frank describes the new clubhouse. "We hardly know where to begin to describe it, so you'll just have to come and see it. We will only mention the big living room, all windows and sunshine, the fireplace for cool mornings, the balcony for a movie machine, the big picture window with its view of the range, the two wings each with complete showers, lockers and dressing rooms, the golf shop, to say nothing of the open porches, east, south and west with such lovely views! We know it's going to be one of the most popular and enjoyable features at Mountain View. We feel that architecturally the new sports house is a real success. It fits naturally into its setting, and does not in any way interfere with the view from the hotel or lawns."
Inside the hotel the furniture in the lounge has all been recovered and the old wicker chairs replaced with new, all of which gives the whole room a fresh and colorful new appearance. As usual, several more bedrooms have been redecorated and new improvements installed in the kitchen. With apologies to the WHITEFIELD HORIZON, published by the Mountain View House in the White Mountains, Whitefield, New Hampshire, Vol. 1, Spring Issue, No. 2.
Remember the Titanic Tenth, and do you recall the Tremendous Twentieth, and are you mindful that the .... Thirtieth is coming up. In fact, a year from this very moment. Let's get started, and how shall we describe this Thirtieth? Shall it be Tenacious, Terrific, Thirsty, Thumping, Tinkling, Titillating, Torrid, Tranquil, Transcendental, Tumultuous, or is there a Greek word which will better describe it?
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, This Week
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