1905*
Ed Gilbert has written the following letter of interest to the class:
"I think I have not reported for the class records the birth of my fourth grandchild. She was born last May 4th and given the name:, Gale Taylor Gilbert, being my son Frederick's first child. Our 'class grandbaby' Virginia is now ten years old, and the other two seven and six. As all of our four children have now been married and away 'on their own' for more than two years, and the first one to go twelve years, the life schedule of the 'old folks at home' becomes less constricted than when the pleasure and convenience of six had to be considered instead of only two as at present. However as Frederick and Lois are associated with me in our work, and the other two are within easy access, we have not suffered any serious disruption of the family circle.
"We had a very enjoyable visit with Robert Frost when he came to Morristown to lecture and read from his poems under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. adult education course. As it was Frost's first visit to Morristown, and as he and I had been friends since boyhood days, I was helping to provide an enthusiastic welcome for him. I gave a series of talks on his life and work, before local groups including the Rotary, Kiwanis and Exchange Clubs, and finally before an audience of nine hundred in the high school. At his lecture we packed the high school auditorium with a very appreciative audience. On that occasion I was much interested to see that this sagacious sixty-five year old philosopher poet was the same as he with whom I had been intimate nearly fifty years ago. That is to say, he had even in early youth the same personality and characteristics on which he later built so successful a career. I met him at Grand Central Station in New York and drove him out home for dinner. In that drive of scarcely more than an hour the conversation spanning the gaps between our meetings over the years flashed countless illustrations of the continuity and fidelity of his personality through his life and especially of his self expression in his poems. One of the things that gives Frost his ranking as the foremost of our living poets is that he is his poems and his poems are himself. His present post as Ralph Waldo Emerson Professor of Poetry at Harvard is a fitting recognition of his work."
Bob Harding, who has been most generous in forwarding items about our classmates and their families, has sent the following information.
"A wedding of local interest took place in Constable, N. Y., Nov. 21 when Miss Gertrude McGibbon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGibbon of Constable, and Nelson Andrew McClary, son of Mrs. McClary and the late Arthur E. McClary of Malone, N. Y., were married. Mr. and Mrs. George Kimball of this city attended the ceremony, Mr. Kimball acting as best man. The groom is a direct descendant of Maj. Andrew McClary, for whom Fort McClary at Kittery was named. The bridegroom's mother is the former Marie Pickett of Portsmouth."
"Fred Chase's son Hugh C. Chase, Dartmouth '37, was married December 21 to Miss Nancy Audette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Girard Audette of Essex Falls, New Jersey."
The best wishes of the Class are extended to the two couples.
The second class dinner is scheduled for 12:30 P.M. on February 20, at the Parker House, Boston.
Tuesday, February 4, is the date of the Annual Boston Alumni Dinner and on Saturday, March 15, comes the Dinner of the Classes of '01 to '05. Everett Stevens '05 is in general charge of the latter festivity. Bob Harding is in charge of the Class Dinner on February 4. Here's hoping that there will be a large delegation from '05 at all three dinners.
Your Secretary is indebted to Ed. Gilbert for the gift of two excellent products of the Gilbert Laboratories at Morristown, New Jersey.
We regret to hear that Harry B. Jackson of 80 South Street, Littleton, New Hampshire, has spent much time during the last two years as a patient in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Here's hoping for an early recovery.
President Edmund Day of Cornell delivered the Psi Kappa Psi address before the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia on December 30. He emphasized the necessity for adequate individual and social discipline as an indispensable condition of national unity. He stated that "undisciplined America has no chance at all of remaining free and democratic in the present world."
The annual meeting of the Merrimack County Alumni Association was held at the Eagle Hotel in Concord on December 27. The attendance was the largest to date.
Harry Preston, Dr. Andrew J. MacMillan, Jake Smith, who was the guest of Andy, and your Secretary were the '05 men present.
Ross McKenney, Field Technician of the D. O. C., kept us in roars of laughter over his entertaining stories, told in FrenchCanadian dialect. We commend him to any alumni group desiring to secure a speaker whose wit and humor are contagious.
Please note the present addresses of the following:
Howard D. Atwood, Box 1009, St. Petersburg, Florida. Rowland P. Balch, 1505 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Walter Garfield Small, c/o Bedell and Company, 33 Custom House St., Providence, Rhode Island. Edward N. Sibley, 26 Winter Street, Southbridge, Massachusetts. Lester W. Studwell, 80 Indian Road, Port Chester, New York. Norman Stevenson, 9 College Street, Hanover, New Hampshire. Ernest T. Grover, 1202 N. Chester Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Chester P. Smith, 321 S. Cleveland Street, St. Paul, Minnesota.
The Class is saddened by the report of the death of Ralph L. Libby of Houston, Texas. Our sympathy is extended to his aunt, Miss Elizabeth Gray, and his three cousins of Dover, N. H. A full report appears in the Necrology section.
Secretary, 4 Holt St., Concord, N. H.
