1906*

Once again our Class is deeply indebted to Nat for his efforts on the Alumni Fund Drive. To get a total of almost $5500.00 from 125 members of the Class represents a lot of hard work and the persistence of a Fuller Brush Salesman. The total raised was the third largest of any Class.

Guy Ayers is now located in Hawaii. His Home address is Box 2459, Honolulu, and his business address, 2311 Ferdinand Ave. Gus is a member of the operating committee contractors of the Pacific Naval Air Bases.

Harold Fish has recently been appointed assistant managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, Inc., 350 Madison Avenue, New York City.

Kid Gleason's letter for the 35th annual report reached me too late to be included so it is being printed here, as I know everyone will be interested in reading it. Kid says his occupation is "putting America on its feet" i.e., selling shoes.

"To graph 35 years, place it in the space of a nut shell and make it intelligent and of interest, is an impossible task. Not even a genius could qualify. But, if you insist, here goes.

"After leaving college, came several years of groping through the 'fog' before getting back onto life's highway—and then start walking.

"Eventually, the barnacles of academic supremacy wore off the guy the world was impatiently awaiting and the seriousness of a sordid, commercial World broke with crushing force on this neophyte.

"Life began at 21 instead of 40. From there on things began to move—the World had two strikes on you when you stepped up to the plate.

"Through the intervening years since, I found myself many years with the National Cash Register Company, a hitch with Uncle Sam in the Army in the World War, still Capt., Signal Corps Reserve, and upon return Sales Promotion Manager of the Studebaker Corporation.

"Since rounding Hoover's corner, I have been in the shoe business with Knapp Bros., Inc., of Brockton, Mass.

"At the moment awaiting the twilight days of life, lam still carrying on—a recall to the Army is the only thing that may disturb my plans."

Albert G. Heyhoe has retired from active teaching and will make his home in Los Angeles, California at 1201 So. Gramercy Place.

In his wanderings over the United States this past summer Charlie Milham had the pleasure of meeting several '06ers. He reports that the Walter Dakins have a lovely home in Madison, Wisconsin, with a beautiful garden of Alpine flowers and plants, a rock garden, a moraine garden, and a pool garden. The gardens and native trees are so worth while that classes in horticulture from the University of Wisconsin make frequent visits to study them.

Walter's daughter, Dr. Marion Dakin, has recently been appointed pathologist of the Los Angeles General Hospital and his son, Philip, 1930, is in the National Broadcasting Co. in Chicago.

In Minneapolis Charlie and Alma had a visit with Henry Thrall. Henry is reported to have three hobbies: (1) a farm about 35 miles outside the city with a farmhouse which looks as if it had been transplanted from New England; (2) an amateur pursuit of astronomy; (3) collecting early Dartmouth books.

Happy Wayman's new address is 1003 Kenwood, Houston, Texas.

Bucky Kraft is now located at 3836 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.

The book, Footpath in the Wilderness published by the Middlebury College Press, contains a chapter "Hobnails, Packs and Lodges" written by Charlie Crane.

Secretary, : Dartmouth Club go East 37th St., New York, N. Y. Treasurer, 52 Woodland St., Newburyport, Mass

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