1894

An even dozen men (over one-third of the living graduates) gathered at the University Club in Boston on the evening of October 24, for the Matt Jones Fall Round-Up. Here are their names: Ames, Cassin, Colby, Knowlton, Lewis, Lyon, Marden, C. C. Merrill, Parker, B. A. Smalley, Spooner, and A. W. Stone.

In addition, there were communications from seventeen absentees as follows: Amey (viz Mrs. Amey), Burnap, Gibbon, Grover (telegram), Hall, Howland, Jenks, Lovejoy, McGroty, Martyn, J. L. Mann, Phillips, Read, F. L. Smalley, E. M. Stone, Tenney, and Wallis. Frank Balch was represented by a poem on Vermont, which the Secretary had discovered in a recent issue of the BurlingtonFree Press, and Dick Field, by a letter not written especially for the Round-Up.

The Secretary reported for Ted Allen, the Class president, and Aubrey "Luce" was appointed to convey to him our affectionate greetings, Aubrey did so, at how much of an addition to the funds of the New England Tel. and Tel. Cos., one does not dare say. Anyhow the Class will pay for it, Aubrey. But the best of it was that the exchange of stories between the two old pals had so good an effect on Ted, that he has left the hospital and is now at home in his old quarters at 152 Waban St., Waban, Mass.

A letter was read from Mrs. Jones, our gracious and wholly adequate hostess of former years, who spoke of our Round-Up as the high spot of the year for her and Matt and of how she was not sorry that the old home of sacred memories had been taken down and could not now be desecrated by lesser uses. Phil Marden was asked to express to Mrs. Jones, our regret at her absence and all our best wishes.

Greetings came from nine other '94 ladies: the Mesdames Adams, Clogston, Gilford, Hoskins, Murgett, Murphy, Penaiman, Ruggles, and Townsend. Also, Merrill Hodsdow '28 wrote of his two sons who were casting longing eyes at the College for an early admission.

The guest of honor was our hale and hearty octogenarian (birthday was Oct. 23), JohnEdward "Bar" "King' Cassin. The toastmaster introduced him by reading a dispatch to the Manchester Morning Union, in which it was recounted that after teaching for four years following graduation, he had come back to Hanover, and after working for the College for a considerable period, he had settled down to his life work of driving a taxi for thirty-three years without an accident. The toastmaster might well also have mentioned the fact that John Cassin is one of the select group whom Bill Cunningham is looking forward to meeting in Heaven.

John replied in a real speech, not prepared on the spur of the moment. It told of high events in his own college life and in the life of the Class, and will be presented to the Class archives. It ended with the words: "This is the most enjoyable occasion of my life."

But we did not forget another man who was thinking of us down in Rolling Fork, Miss. As we had drunk a toast to John Cassin, so did we also to William Gibbon, whose Both birthday came Oct. 16. Bud Lyon was detailed to express our feelings to him.

So ended another "Dartmouth Ninety-Four Night," as our fall Round-Up might well be called.

1895 PATRIARCH WITH HIS FLOCK: "Tommy" Thompson, surrounded by his daughters and grandchildren, looks the part of a contented man. Who wouldn't, with such a happy and healthy-looking family as his?

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass. T reasurer, 89 Prospect St., Somersworth, N. H