1916
The treasurer's informal and interim report indicates that our class dues are not coming in with normal despatch and that our financial condition is behind that of last year. Alec seems calm, patient, and optimistic in this situation, but, to those who know him best, his expression suggests that he is all but regurgitatingly sick at heart. It would be worth your time and money to send the check today and imagine his smile upon receipt of it. If you haven't paid, do it right now; if you aren't sure, do it anyway; if you have already paid, do it again.
In conjunction with these notes is to be printed a picture of an American diving champion, Miss Anne Ross, daughter of Ken Ross. Ken, as well as his daughter, is a distinguished person, for he is highly successful as hydro-electric engineer with the Federal Power Commission in Washington, a post which he has reached after service with the Tennessee Valley Authority and also some years of valuable experience in construction with private firms. Ken's son, Gordon, is active in the class of '44 at Dartmouth.
Raymond Chapman has sent to the acting secretary an ideally interesting account of his affairs—would that many others would follow his example. At present, Ray is engaged in research in certain phases of American history, an avocation to which he has turned because of illness which occasioned the giving up of the parish in which he had served as minister for many years.
The deluge of letters (well, perhaps hardly more than a flood) from sixteeners in the armed forces continues unabated. A conspicuously good example of their tenor is at hand from one Major Fletcher R. Andrews (probably Fletch). He expounds the thoroughness, severity of discipline, and general excellence of the Judge Advocate General's school at Ann Arbor through which he has just passed, inevitably with distinction. "The course gave us a splendid background for our work.... drill nearly every day... .opportunity to drill a company. .. .weekly inspections. We gained a great deal of confidence and snap and we feel like Army officers." The new address is Westchester Apartments, 3900 Cathedral Ave., Washington.
Not to be outdone, the "1916-IN-BUSINESS MOVEMENT" is quite as active as our Army representatives, and like the Army they complain of being shockingly busy. John Curtin writes in this vein and also of his pleasure at seeing Lymie Perkins recently. .. ."and for a while Lymie was back on second base and we retook the freshman picture." Bill Osborn is working for the WPB in Dayton and busy. Frank Osborn is busy as inspector of ordnance for the USA.
Tony Garcia, who has been ill, is now in good health again and writes to commend our deserving treasurer for his diligent service, a gesture in which we might all do well to indulge—enclosing check for dues. All in all, the contacts of our business contingent with countless war programs are as wide and as walloping as we could wish.
Parker Burt is serving his twenty-fourth year as teacher of French and Latin at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa. Earl Cranston, professor of history at the University of Redlands since 1934, has been chosen director of social sciences, an administrative post at the head of one of the six divisions of the University. These and other academic brethren in 1916 are apparently as busy as other members of this unusual class. By the way, any and all inquiries as to the prospects of the American system of education in general or of Dartmouth College in particular should, in the personal but cocksure opinion of this writer, be answered quite tartly. We are doing all right and shall soon be doing better, and as to what is to become of us we are going right where that Mr. Doodle went in the song which you may have heard, viz., to town. Going right to town and we expect to like it.
In that droll way of ours, we New Engenders talk about doing this or that "to preserve the good of the neighborhood" —talk about it and sometimes do it. One way "to preserve the good of the neighborhood" which is 1916, I guess, would be to write a letter to old neighbors; and here are the changes in address:
H. Clifford Bean, 426 Washington St., Boston; Neilson C. Brush, 44 Park St., Malone, N. Y.; Robert A. Burlen, 245 Clifton St., Maiden, Mass.; Alvin R. Caiman, 256 N. Arlington Ave., East Orange, N. J.; Herbert A. Dingwall, 5 Prospect Place, Tudor City, N. Y.; Arthur G. Eastman, 201 West 16 St., N. Y. C.; du Val R. Goldthwaite, 75 Varick St., N. Y. C.; Ralph L. Fletcher, 652 Bloomfield Court, Birmingham, Mich.; Nathaniel P. Harris, C. W. T. Grant Cos., Fort Worth, Texas; Rupert G. Perkins, 1811 Ocoee St., Cleveland, Tenn.; Leigh ton W. Rogers, University Club, Washington; Leo J. Rosen, 140 Linwood Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.; Milford B. Streeter, R.D. 1, Bethel, Conn.; Robert S. Townsend, 1447 Irving St., N.W., Washington; Constantine D. Tripolitis, 236 Kalmia St., San Diego, Cal.; Cecil W. Tucker, 600 N. Ohio St., Roswell, New Mexico; Prentice Winchell, Peachblossom Rd., Easton, Md.
'16 DAUGHTER IN A HALF GAINERAnne Ross, U. S. champion springboard diver for one meter and three meter boards.
Secretary, 2542 Stratford Rd., Cleveland Hights, Ohio
Acting Secretary, 3 Downing Road, Hanover, N. H.
