1901*

Again through the kindness of Johnnie and Alma Ward, the annual class party was held at the Algonquin Club, Boston, after the Harvard-Dartmouth Game, and as usual was a most delightful affair. Most of the regulars were in attendance, but it was good to have Jim and Dot Smith, and Harry and Grace Gilmore with us, the first time for some years. Jim Kimball was back in his old form, and Eddie Gibbons had some stories of the Sherman House gang that were new. Jack Andrews took us on his famous sight-seeing bus trip through Boston streets of years ago. Bunker Bishop invited all to come over to New York for the class dinner the 7th of November, and he still insists that the New York crowd can put it over on the Boston gang anytime, in attendance, loyalty and even oratory. The singing was missed as all the choristers were absent, and it did not seem right not to hear Tommie Remsen and his Allouette.

Doug Vanderhoof missed his first reunion this last June, but it was partly made up with a trip to California with Mrs. Van, where they had an opportunity of calling on the Leavens, and hearing all about the Reunion from them. The Vans motored back through the Black Hills, and National Parks and report a most delightful trip.

Those who attended the Reunion in June will recall that the Hatherways were troubled and worried at that time, due to the fact that their oldest daughter had sailed for the Continent with the Harvard Field Unit, and she was then in the War Zone. They were of course greatly relieved when they found she had landed safely and was happily situated somewhere in England, and serving as a laboratory technician.

"It is good to know that the vicissitudes of Percy Stoddard's life, long clouded at the end by mental trouble, have been ended by death. He was the last of an old Portsmouth family. We knew him first as a Dartmouth student, then as a reporter for Portsmouth papers, afterwards as deputy under United States Marshall E. P. Nute. He went into the insurance business and politics in his home city and came here several times as a member of the legislature. The period of his last service as a lawmaker coincided with the triumph of Prohibition, much to the anguish of Percy who thought he saw in the ban on beer a deadly injury to Portsmouth. We can see him now, tall and big, his face red and contorted with emotion, as he charged down thg center aisle in Representatives' Hall, waving his clenched fists and shouting, in effect, "You can't do this to us." But they could and they did, and Percy was never quite himself again."

From The Concord Monitor, Aug. 13, 1941

Secretary and Treasurer 37 Berkeley St., Nashua, N. H.