1905*
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Gregory (Barbara Hulst) announce the birth o£ a son, Brooke Gregory, on Sunday, April 29, at the Baker Memorial Hospital. Congratulations of the Class are extended to the parents and grandparents, Ernest and Mrs. Gregory of Wenham and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred N. Hulst of Cambridge.
Lafayette and Mrs. Chamberlin of Winchester announce the engagement of their daughter, Priscilla, to Mr. Stanley Edward Neill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Yerxa Neill of Winchester. Miss Priscilla was graduated from Smith College in 1937. Mr. Neill was graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover in 1930, Dartmouth in 1934 and attended the Harvard School of Business Administration. He is a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Casque and Gauntlet. A June wedding is planned. Our congratulations and best wishes on this latest strengthening of the ties between Smith and Dartmouth.
Miss Barbara Salisbury Stott was married on April s6 to Henry Tolman ad, son of Dick and Mrs. Tolman of Derby, Connecticut. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Oliver J. Hart, Rector of Trinity Church, in Leslie Lindsey Memorial Chapel in Boston. May the bride and groom have a long and happy married life!
Jake Atwood reports that the high light of the Annual Dartmouth Dinner in St. Petersburg was meeting Fred Chase. Jake is anticipating with pleasure Fred's becoming a regular winter resident at Dunedin, which is only twenty-five miles from St. Petersburg. Jake missed C. C. Hill's visit this year. C. C. has been "a very welcome ambassador to the expatriates." Increasing numbers of Dartmouth men are in St. Petersburg each winter.
Jake has made a couple of flying trips to Hanover to see his son, Robert, of the Class of 1942. It is a source of regret to Jake that the peak load of his business as Manager of the Public Bonded Storage Warehouse comes in the spring and prevents his attending the 'O5 Reunions.
Tom Keady saw his last tennis match at Bethlehem, Pa., when Tilden was playing his best. One of the spectators gave a whispered comment and Tilden threw his racket up in the air and raised a rumpus about the interruption. Tom's oldest son, Walter, finishes law school in June but is reporting in July for a year of military service. Dick Keady, a Freshman at Dartmouth, had an excellent record during his first semester. Tom's characteristic comment was, "They must have thought it another branch of the Keady family up there in Hanover." Mrs. Keady spent several weeks with her sister in Miami during the winter. Tom thinks that McLaughry will make a good coach for Dartmouth.
Jim Mullaly, General Attorney for the •Great Northern Railway, writes from St. Paul, Minnesota, that the spring is glorious and the earliest in years for his region. Prospects for the farmers are good. Business is steady but there is no boom. There is little defense program work and no training camps. The sentiment of the Northwest seems opposed to our entry in the war.
Jim, as President of the Alumni Association of the Northwest, welcomed at the annual meeting in March Professor Tobin, Coach McLaughry and Colonel Little, a Trustee of the College, who celebrates this year the sixtieth anniversary of his graduation. Jim's grandson will attend Princeton, if his father's preference prevails, but Jim says that the youngster is for Dartmouth. One of Jim's boys is a swimming instructor, the second son, a junior in Law School, is a reserve officer and anticipates an early call for duty. Judd, the youngest boy, is a junior at Dartmouth. There is also a daughter, a junior in high school. We regret that Mrs. Mullaly's health did not permit the trip to Hanover last June.
Varsity Billman at 5211 Big Ranch Road, Napa, California, insists that there are no "dude" ranches in his region but an abundance of prunes, cherries, walnuts, apples, pears, apricots, almonds and grapes. The twins, aged 4, and the baby, who will be 2 in August, are thriving on pure Guernsey milk. Varsity considers Napa and Sonoma County as the cream of Northern California and way ahead of the southern part of the state. We are delighted that Varsity and Mrs. Billman are planning to be on hand for the 40th Reunion.
Stillman Batchellor reports that at Venado, Sonoma County, California, they have had for five months g6 inches of rain, "in fact a little above the Fi-Ji Islands, supposed to be the wettest place in the world." Batch's daughter, Eloise, is finishing her second year in the Bouve-Boston School in Boston. Batch raises Imperial prunes which are advertised as "Nature's Confection—Too good to cook."
If other members of the Class could see the picture of the Batchellor Log Ranch House, with the mountains in the background and read Varsity's glowing description of the region, they would infer that the author of Genesis should have written about Sonoma County instead of Eden. Varsity and Batch, unlike the Californian in Frost's poem, New Hampshire, do not have to concede the existence of a cemetery to vindicate their humanity.
Dr. William James Campbell, of the Department of Practical Theology of the School of Religion of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, enjoys his work with the young men in the School and welcomes the opportunity to assist them in clarifying the meaning of life. Camp's daughter, Louise, is doing graduate work at Cornell. The Campbells are anticipating another summer at Hubbard Lake in Michigan.
Winfield S. Barney is Professor of Romance Languages at the Woman's College of the Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro. Winfield has three sons who are in insurance and a fourth in the retail drug business. The first grandson is David Marshall, the son of Marshall Hobart Barney. Mary Elizabeth is a sophomore in high school. John Ervin Barney married Charlotte Porter, a relative of O. Henry. Winfield is looking forward with pleasure to his twenty-fourth consecutive year of teaching in summer school. North Carolina is intensely patriotic and favors helping Great Britain even to entering the war.
Sliver Hatch reports that the contributions to the Alumni Fund are coming in well.
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