1904

November 10, our Washington ear reports: —Bill Robey and Bob' Moseley represented 1904 at the Dartmouth Night festivities of the Washington Association, at The Willard. Bill's friends, who had not seen him for forty years, agreed that like rare wine, he had improved with age, and is one of the youngest and best looking men in the class. In the Engineers Office of the War Department, Bill is Chief Engineer on all water resource developments. Bob and Margaret Moseley are spending the winter in Chevy Chase, Md. They expect to return to their Washington residence in the spring.

Alf Hastings recently retired after many years in the Department of Agriculture. His associates gave him a testimonial, on his departure, of a scroll in pen and ink, depicting the milestones in his life, including his years at Dartmouth, to which was appended the signatures of his closest shopmates in Agriculture. Alf is sojourning in Raleigh, N. C., preparatory to entering upon work with a well-known firm in the Forestry line. He has two sons overseas, one in a German internment camp. Murray Parker of Chicago was a recent visitor to Washington. He looks as young as ever, and reports business just as good, but 'twould be a damn sight better, he says, if WPB "would quit thinking up restrictions on production in the publishingtrade."

Gathering at the Nashua Country Club November 11—following Dartmouth night celebrations everywhere—fourteen of our crowd had a twoday experiment of again living together and renewing all sorts of happenings. The memories going back forty-four years to our beginning at Dartmouth were surprising in their accurateness and fidelity to detail, though most of the remembered events had little relation to class room experiences. Charron—Moulton—Brennon—Kneeland-Lampee Woods Bolster—Rollins Edgerly Bullock— Manning— Moore— Unias and Austin relaxed and enjoyed the temporary escape from election reactions war postwar newspapers, etc. The only attention paid the Saturday afternoon radio football news was to the Army-Notre game and though "no one" present had been interested in the Dartmouth-Notre Dame game, there were mournful expressions at the finish that the Army score was not higher. Bill Kneeland's color films, of our 35th Hanover Reunion in '39 were enjoyed Saturday evening with another showing Sunday after dinner. Many national and world problems were settled by discussion, but the value of war football was not determined, though the majority seemed in favor of continuance of the "Ivy League." Everyone enjoyed and profited by Matt's observations and. discussion of the country's racial problems. Our two doctors, Uniac and Manning, were chaperoned by their wives who said it was their only chance of spending any time with their husbands. Incidentally their presence stimulated the versatility of the raconteurs in quick transitions of anecdote and song, noticeable when Ned Bartlett appeared on the screen and the crowd raucously sang, "Let go the jib Halyards." Beck and his scrapbooks could not join us, for the week found him enjoying a. visit with his daughter, Peggie, whom he had not seen for eight years, and her husband, just back from eighteen months in the South Pacific, and until now unacquainted with his father-in-law. No, Ike, he didn't start back for the war area when he met Beck, but is now stationed in Quonset. Two days after their arrival, a telegram advised Beck that his daughter Charlotte, after twenty-three months' constant nursing service in the advanced fighting zones of Tunisia-Sicily-Italy and France, had been flown to Charleston, S. C., and hospitalized there for rest, from complete physical exhaustion. Beck spent the week-end with her.

Ralph Sexton was surprised by having one of his sons home for a weekend—Gene Sewall was on an animal hunting trip to Northern Maine. Genevieve Manguerian had chosen Saturday for her wedding day and married in Manchester, where Armen has practiced successfully since the Medical School turned him loose. The wedding reception was attended by Mrs. Edgerly—Robbie and Tinker Gale were temporarily housed with bad colds. These various unexpected causes reduced our number from twenty to fourteen. CARDS from Parker, Chicago; Turner, St. Louis, who has been visited by Hinman recently; Logan, during vacation time, and Roby, Washington. Bartlett, Niagara Falls, bet no one would touch a golf club, and won. Wylie, Ashmont, Mass.; Fletcher, Chattanooga, who admits struggles with the results of the New Deal legislation; Davis, Springfield, Mass., couldn't make it without Beck—gasoline partners probably; Rolf, Newton,—Not up to it; Lester Ames, Bridgton, Me.It's a long time since we have heard from this old Rood House pal. Whittemore, Washington, NoCan-do; Woodbridge, New York,—Sorry to miss it; Fellows, New Britain, Conn.; S. K. SturtevantWish I could; Brotherhood, Grand Rapids,Sorry, Best wishes; Blanchard, Chicago,'—Best wishes; Maguire, Boston,—Can't; Wing, Burlington*—Can't; Russell, Port Arthur, Ont.,-—Greetings from the Dominion—-Distance prevents; Torrey, Portland, Me.—No; Fiske, Portland, Ore.,same; Brown, Roswell, New Mexico,—Took six days for notice to reach me. Can't spare the time; Maynard, Rumford, Me.,—Regret, I can't; Hinman, Maxwell Field, Ala.,—So sorry, expect to be in San Antonio; Hatch, Calif.,—No; Lockwood, Washington State,—No; Holton, Chicago,—Sorry, not this time; Scales, Pontiac, Mich.,—new recruit, years since he has recognized us, but says he is coming the next time—wonders how we look?-SO DO WE! Leverone, Chicago,—Hoped to make it, but didn't; Terrien, Nashua, N. H.,—with his three sons in service he is a hard man to catch, but we'll have him yet. His son George, Fighter Pilot, Fighting Squadron, is probably headed for Japan; his eldest son now back from fourteen months China and India, in service here. Youngest son is in West Point, so Terry and Mrs. Terrien went to New York for the Army-Notre Dame game, as we beseiged Nashua.

This news from fifty-one takes the place of our real Fortieth and guarantees another gathering in Forty-five. And now a Wah-Hoo-Wah for that energetic Wah-Hoo-Warrior, Squire Rollins of Newport, N. H., grandfather extraordinary, Kibitzer of all sports, expert of many, who enjoys people so much and 1904 so much more that he insisted on a reunion and had it.

Secretary, Canaan Street Lodge, Canaan St., N. H Treasurer, Morristown, N. J.