1914*
We have been somewhat skeptical as to whether our very able Class Agent, Mart Remsen, was really a farmer or merely an agriculturalist. According to the present definition the latter is a man who makes his money in the city and spends it on the farm—or vice versa. However, our doubts were completely dispelled by a visit from our roving reporter who spent a-week at the Hanover Inn this summer. At every meal it was pointed out to him by the waitress that. .. . "This squash is fresh from the Remsen Farm." At breakfast the eggs were guaranteed "Remsen fresh," and so on through the week. Said vegetables and dairy products were quite the best our reporter had ever eaten. He, too, was a bit skeptical and climbed the long Etna Hill one sundown, only to find Mart and the Mrs. had gone off on a trip; but the farm was functioning perfectly—probably under remote control. We understand that the Squire is preparing a monograph for early publication, entitled Law to Legumes inSix Easy Lessons. Perhaps we will have the honor of including a portion of it in this column.
Incidentally, while on the subject of Mart Remsen, a word is in order on the Alumni Fund and the part our Class played in the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Year. The actual statistics you have heard with a good deal of satisfaction, we are sure. It seems to us that such things as the Dartmouth Alumni Fund, the General Chairman and the Class Agent represent something more than an evidence of college loyalty. It must be that the fabric of democracy itself is woven of such things as the Dartmouth Alumni Fund and the unselfish work which year by year goes into its continued success. The Class is proud of your excellent result, Mart.
When our classmate, Thorne Smith, passed on some years ago he left an uncompleted novel. This has now been finished by Norman Matson and will be published by Doubleday Doran as the post- humous work of Thome, under the title of The Passionate Witch. It will be interesting to see how Mr. Matson has handled Thome's peculiar style.
Doubtless you all read this item or heard it over the radio—about how an automobile parked in a hillside driveway in our neighboring suburb of Winchester, Massa- chusetts, suddenly decided to go exploring.'Backing itself out of a circuitous drive- way—with which we ourselves have had some difficulty even in full possession of our faculties—the car backed around into the street, turned the corner, (radiator end ahead), took the turn a bit short, was deflected through a rose garden, crossed another street, made a couple more intricate turns and finally did a nosedive over a twelve-foot wall, right into an important highway. The owner of this vagabond vehicle is Frank Sullivan who, worse luck, had just had the jalopy put in first-class condition. Incidentally, the lady who owned the rose garden was lamenting her loss to her colored gardener who, after viewing the damage, remarked: "Yo'all sho' was lucky yo' wasn't pickin' roses when that car done went by."
We regretfully report the death of Morris E. Franklin who passed away on August 20, 1941. We shall attempt to have further obituary notice next month.
Ralph Hutchins writes from North Strat- ford, New Hampshire, that he is busily engaged in various activities pertaining to civic work on the National Defense Program. He is Chairman of the Defense Council of his town and a member of the Military Affairs Committee of the New Hampshire General Court. He has for sometime been Food Stamp Plan Admin- istrator for the entire State of New Hamp- shire and, likewise, supervises, the Com- munity School Lunch Program for the State. This sounds like a busy program and we are sure Ralph is just the type of fellow to do it well.
By the way, replies axe not coming in very plentifully concerning our request for information having to do with defense work of the men of the class. The College Records Office is anxious to keep up with this information, so won't you please write in and tell us about your activities, whether in the active service or in the Civilian Defense Program? We are also anxious to keep up with the educational activities of the rising generation, and please include this news also. In other words, the Secretary wants to hear from all of you so please make this a first order of business.
Jesse Hubel writes from Montreal: "I am connected with the development, design and bringing into operation of three chemical plants for our Government Finance Subsidiary, the Defense Industries, Ltd." He has been involved in the building and operation of eight such plants including a cordite and shell-filling works. Jesse writes that his daughter, Joan, will be a junior at Wellesley this year and he begs to brag a little that Joan won first prize in the Atlantic Monthly annual essay contest for college students. His son, David, is a junior in high school and hopes to take his pre-medical work at Dartmouth, and finish at McGill. Jesse reports a pleasant vacation on the Gaspe Peninsula and hopes to attend the next reunion. He says that so far, with the exception of the first class reunion, he has been in England on company business when our other re- unions took place. He sends best regards to all.
Al Richmond writes that he is packing up for a tour of duty with the army and has just received his promotion, making him a Lieutenant Colonel in the Field Artillery Reserve. He does not know his ultimate destination but his first stop will be Washington, D. C.
Secretary, 16 Grove St., West Medford, Mass. Treasurer, The Stanley Works Bridgeport, Conn.
