1901-1905 Boston Dinner
EM. HOPKINS, P. P. Thompson, Arthur . Bolster, Bob Harding, W. C. Hill, Channing Cox, Ralph Sexton, Cliff Pierce, Jim Kimball, Louis Dow, Ike Charron, John Laing, Charlie Whelan, Roy Hatch, Tom Keady, Squid Lampee, Eddie Gibbons, Tommy Thompson, Carl Brackett, Bill Clough, Ned Calderwood, Rock Newman, Pete Maguire, Bourne Wood, Bill Cheever, Bob Estabrook, Pen Mower, Sliver Hatch, George French, Percy Dorr, Hay Rolfe, Fred Chase, Johnnie Ward, E. B. Watson, Perce Hobbs, Lafayette Chamberlain, Kitty Cate, Beezle Parker, Mat Bullock, Jim Donnelly, Frank Cudworth, Baker Keniston, Jack Sanderson, Walter May, Dave Austin, Charlie Chase, Roger Brown, Walter Lillard, Babe Kneeland, Phil Brown, Charley Leddy, Vic Cutter, Pip Howard, Armen Manguerian, Rufus Day, Ned Estes, Pat Manning, Bill Bryant, Chesty McCabe, Royal Parkinson, Steve Stevens, Prexy Whelden, George Proctor, Dana Whipple, T. Wood, Cy White, Chubby Edwards, Carl Woods, Midge Reid, Herbert Bates, J. H. White, Andy Wood, Ned Burbeck, Tom McGovern, Harry Watson, A 1 Dalrymple, Emma Brown, Jack Dunnington, Walter Emery.
These 78 Dartmouth men, forty or more years out of College, devoted the evening of May 11th to renewing Hanover associations covering the years from 1897 to 1905. The gathering in Boston that evening was a cross-section of Dartmouth undergraduate life at the turn of the century, fortunate to have spent their Hanover days under the inspiring influence of Dr. Tucker and proud that from this group another great Dartmouth leader has met the constantly changing demands on the liberal college.
These reunions have produced men of many and varied accomplishments, but piano playing was a lost art till this year when the committee in charge secured a Professor of Music from Roberts College, Constantinople, Turkey, in the person of Ed Estes 'O5, so that the Dartmouth Song might be enjoyed. Estes and Watson 'O2 had a little Roberts College reunion. It was a privilege to have Hoppy enjoying the undergraduate privileges of the evening and he spoke feelingly of the campus we knew, of the old houses and their occupants who were and are a part of the College, deploring the demand of growth that necessarily changed campus surroundings. Rufus Day enjoyed the renewal of his Dartmouth undergraduate associations and discussed problems already on the horizon for colleges in the immediate postwar period. The brief program was made more enjoyable by the gracious introductions of Chan Cox who showed his versatility by assuming the role of interlocutor and picking for a couple of end men Lafayette Chamberlain '05 and Jim Kimball '01.
There is a wholesome widening of reunion possibilities in these multi-class gatherings shown each year by the attraction of men who have been more or less immune to class affairs. T. Wood brought his son Andy '42 and Cy White was accompanied by his son John, now in the Navy. The attendance by classes was: 1901, seventeen: 1902, eleven; 1903, twelve; 1904, seventeen; 1905. twentv-two. Can vou pin the right numerals on the men present?
AT THE 1901-1905 DINNER IN BOSTON on May 11, seventy-eight Dartmouth men were present. The above picture shows some fifty of the group at the festive board, with the 1905 table in the foreground, 1904 next and so on back to the 1901 table, where President Hopkins (in corner) sat with classmates. Dave Austin 'O4, who had a large share in arranging the dinner, suggests that the Magazine give an award for Superior Eyesight to anyone who can identify the whole group from the complete list of 78 names in the accompanying story.
