1908
The term of Colonel Artie Soule as a member of the Alumni Council expired with the June meeting at Hanover.. Artie was a valuable and enthusiastic member of the Council and faithful in his attendance at the meetings. The class is still represented by three members on the Council, however. They are Jack Everett for Rock-bound Maine, Robbie Robinson from lowa, where the tall corn grows, and Jim Norton from Sun-kist California. For the coming year, Jack will serve as a member of the nominating committee of the Council, Robbie as a member of the committee on Alumni projects and Jim on the committee on bequests. As has been announced, the mid-winter meeting of the Council will be held in Chicago, January 24-25, 1947.
Howard Hilton and his son, Howard Jr., out of the Navy in July, and the Class Notes Editor and Bill Jr., discharged from the Army the same month, attended the annual undergraduate luncheon of the Dartmouth Association of Chicago, which was held on September 23 at the University Club. About forty undergraduates and their fathers attended and there was a total of attendance of 100. Howard Jr. was at Dartmouth for two months before going into the Navy. He entered college from Lake Forest Academy.
Nineteen men attended the annual fall dinner meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Rockford, including Edwin R. Keeler '11, president of the Alumni Council.
Our Bill left for Hanover the last week of September. He is rooming in 310 Butterfield. His sister Mary, Smith 1948, was in Hanover for the Syracuse game on October 5.
Larry Symmes' father, Samuel Stowell Symmes, 87, president of the Winchester Cooperative Bank, died October 6 at his home, 7 Sanborn St., Winchester. He had served at various times as selectman, member of the school board and tree warden in Winchester. Born in Winchester, he was graduated from Bridgewater Normal School. He was one of the founders of the Winchester Unitarian Church and a vice president and trustee of the Winchester Savings Bank. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. Walter Keyes of Winchester, two sonsRussell of Winchester and Larry,—a sister, Mrs. Alfred S. Hall of Revere, and 15 grandchildren. Funeral services were held on October 8 at the Winchester Unitarian Church and burial was in Wildwood Cemetery.
The Class Notes Editor seems to have recovered reasonably well from his tussle with his surgeon and his eight weeks spent in Rockford Memorial Hospital. He has not as yet officiated in any football games this fall, however.
Sometime during the summer, Art Rotch's dentist prescribed that all or most of his teeth be extracted in the interest of good health, longevity, etc. The dentist decided to do the work in installments. At one stage of the proceedings, Art expounded on the subject in his column "The Observer" in the Milford Cabinet. Art wrote as follows:
Last week we put on paper some thoughts while waiting to have our teeth pulled. We didn't intend to make it a serial Now it looks like a six-in-stallment story And why not string it out? A guy with a sore face isn't likely to think about anything else Serial, eh ? That's all we eat. Cereal and mush. The only way we like oatmeal is with thick cream and lots of sugar. Now the cream is thin and sugar doesn't come in lots. Readers of serial stories want to learn how the characters come out. So why not tell 'em ? Ours came out hard. The dentist said they did, and who are we to disagree? The dentists are annoyed when one talks of "pulling" teeth. They want us to say "extracted." .... We'll stick to "pull," and won't annoy the puller half as much as he annoys the pullee One thing we're sure of: no rugged tusk was ever extracted by the comic-strip method of tying it to a door knob and waiting for somebody to open the door Saturday we shaved. It was like scraping a toy balloon Had to look in the mirror. All we could think of was the chipmunk who stuffs his cheeks with our sunflower seeds We looked like a baboon with a sofa pillow in his mouth Who cares? It's all in the interest of health and longer life It's nice to see the big ones laid out on the glass and think there'll be no more drill- ing and pounding on those babies And to watch the operator thread his needle and do an embroidery job on your numb gums You'd like to spit but can't, with dead lips So you lean over and drool. Drooling is easy, for fellers who write for newspapers It's an hour or two later you get the answer, when the feeling returns to your dead pan and the swelling starts. Nobody can say the docs who order out the teeth don't have a swell idea We're thinking of hunting up Joe Louis and insulting him. We'd get our teeth knocked out quicker and cheaper Please make our datmeal without lumps.
THE POLICEMAN'S LOT WAS THEN A HAPPY ONE. The Class of 1907 at its third reunion in 1910, an event well policed and also said to have been the first uniformed reunion in Hanover. Sponsor of the idea was George Liscomb, extreme left. Two present-day Trustees in the group are John R. McLane, sixth from right, and William J. Mir.sch, third from left. Prof. Harry Wellman is at the extreme right and beside him is Morrill Allen Gallagher.
FORMER DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL GREAT, Clarke Tobin 'lO and son Dick '5O (center) pose with two other father-son combinations: the Careys, left, Herb '5O, Arthur M., Sr. and Art '45, and the Youngs, right, Lou, Sr. and Stew '5O.
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