1900
Now ancient history, but to be mentioned that the record may be kept intact, is the 1947 June Round-Up of the Class, held at the Follansbee Inn, Kezar Lake, North Sutton, N. H., where such meetings have been taking place annually, with few interruptions, for some fifteen years. Of 65 living members of the Class, scattered all over the country, more than half (33 to be exact) were in attendance —a most remarkable record.
Those present were Atxuood, Bigelow,Brooks, Butterfield, Dolloff, Dunlap, Fletcher,Goodhue, Hadlock, Hastings, Hayden, Jenkins, McDavitt, Mahoney, Manion, Marshall,Mathes, Moody, Moulton, Prescott, Proctor,Putnam, Rankin, Richardson, Roberts, Sampson, Sears, Teague, Tong, Trull, Tuttle, Wallace, Warden. Coming from a considerable distance were Len Tuttle from Larchmont, N. Y., George Tong from Brooklyn, and Harold Hastings, from Baltimore. Especially gratifying was the presence of Bill Moulton, who was with us only during freshman year and whom almost none of us had seen since his withdrawal from college, fifty years ago.
For the last two years, in retrospect, a sad feature of these meetings has been the death within a few weeks of one of those present, who, at the time, was apparently in health and excellent spirits. In 1946 it was John Redington; during the present year Charlie Dolloff, whose obituary notice is found in another column. We came to Kezar Lake originally through the suggestion of Charles, who, for many years, has had an attractive summer residence on its shores. No one of us has had a more satisfactory or a more useful life than he, and no one has been held in greater affection by his classmates. We shall miss him sadly in our future gatherings.
By the time the MAGAZINE reaches you, the 1947 Directory of the Class should lie in your hands. This is a remarkable production—the Secretary can say so because all the credit is due to Clarence McDavitt, Trustee of the Class Fund and Class Agent, who has put forth endless effort and a high degree of detective skill in tracing families of deceased classmates.
Connected with the Class from its origin (as shown in the Report for 1941) are 165 men—122 graduates and 43 non-graduates. The Directory just issued contains 142 addresses, made up of 64 living members and members of families of deceased classmates numbering 78. It includes two living members and representatives of 21 families about whose whereabouts previously we were uninformed and whose names were not included (or the data concerning whom were erroneous) in previous directories. Of the 23 remaining members whose names do not appear on the list, five are deceased graduates, three of whom left no families, and 18 are non-graduates (11 of them known to be dead), nearly all of whom were connected with the Class only for brief periods and who had little or no association with it after leaving Hanover.
Arthur S. Kimball Jr., has recently become Medical Director of the Arthur S. Kimball Sanitorium (the Calhoun County Tuberculosis Sanitorium) at Battle Creek, Michigan; the institution of which his father was the leading founder. A medical graduate of McGill University,, he is the third member of his family, in direct succession, to practice his profession at Battle Creek.
On July 25 Miriam Louise, daughter of the late Channing Sanborn and Mrs. Sanborn, was married in Stratford, Conn., to Mr. Thomas Leiper Kane. On August 9, Elizabeth Lord, daughter of the late Dayton Lord Condit and Mrs. Condit, was married to Mr. Grosvenor Lowery Ball Jr., at Evanston, Ill. Alvah Fowler announces the arrival of a third grandson, the son of his elder daughter, who lives in Troy, N. Y.
The Falmouth Publishing Company of Portland, Maine, has recently issued a 48 page volume of poetry by Effie Lawrence Marshall, wife of our Harry Marshall, entitled Leaves on the Current. It is preceded by an introduction by M. H. Werkmeister, Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Nebraska, and a preface by Vivian Yeiser Laramore, described as the poet laureate of Florida.
Freeman Corson has moved from Rochester, N. H., where he was born and where he has lived for most of his life, to Mattapoisett, Mass. He has had some difficulty with lameness in his hip and intends to rest for a period, in hope of improvement.
Mrs. Henry Weston has sold her home in Windsor, Vt., and is making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Bruce Hart, in New Milford, N. J.
In a letter to The Boston Herald, ArthurRoberts, from his summer home in Center Conway, N. H., has entered the controversy concerning the relation between the confessional and the practice of psychiatry by the physician, raised recently by the eminent Catholic divine, Mgr. Sheen. Arthur's concluding paragraph (as is the rest of the letter) is to the point. "Resentment against trespass upon inherited fields should not prevent Mgr. Sheen from a perfectly clear acceptance of what the Catholic Church and the United States Government recognize as helpful in curing diseased minds—even of corrupt municipal officials! A good blast from the Catholic Church might cure even Boston."
Among other discoveries made by Clarence McDavitt in his recent inquiries are the existence of a surviving sister of George Hildreth in the person of Miss Mary A. Hildreth, of Haverhill, N. H., and a brother of WilliamDickinson (one of a family of nine children, seven of whom are still living) in Paul Dickinson, proprietor of Greenridge Farm, Lisbon, N. H.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 212 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass.
