1901-05 Boston Dinner
Steve Stevens, Wright, McManus, Bob Leach, Parkinson, Hay Rolfe, Batchelder, Gene Dow, Louie Dow, Brooks, R. Brown, Dick Brown, Phil Brown, Young, Newick, Hobbs, McCabe, Uniac, Rollins, Newman, Watson, Leddy, Grover, Bullock, Manning, Cox, Sliver Hatch, Dalrymple, Orvil Smith, Harding, Wylie, T. Wood, W. C. Hall, Jim Donnelly, Kenerson, Edgerly, McGovern, P. Thompson, Proctor, Bates, Reid, Dave Keniston, Burbeck, Mathes, Robinson, Beezle Parker, White, Butterfield, Bill Clough and son Joe '3l, Whipple, Brackett, Bill Cheever, Weston, Bolster, Chase, W. E. Chamberlin, Howard, Cliff Pierce, Ned Calderwood, Ralph Taylor, Carl Woods, Bunker Bishop, W. C. Hill, Kidger, Peyser, Austin, Bill Bryant, Lampee, Edwards, Waldo Davis, Maguire, Loder, Moulton, A. K. Smith, G. French, Sewall, Fall.
Mixed in about the same proportions as they used to hustle out of class rooms and dormitories at the stroke of noon to get to their regular eating clubs. (The standard price was $3.00 for 21 meals, and food had to be good or a waiter would move his table of ten appetites to another club, a gesture that never failed to restore standards.) Doubtless this was the origin of the "strike," so successful in the intervening years that this annual dinner on May 9 cost the crowd 78 weeks' board. Fragments of conversation drifting from the groups indicated that the Nichols physics classes were still remembered, chiefly for the mortality at exam time.... the great games with Brown .... our dedication of the Harvard Stadium, the Wheelock Hotel with the stone watering trough on the corner of the campus where certain ducking ceremonies occurred at hazing and initiation seasons and frequently without premeditation There was present the proud and serious thought that we were Dartmouth men in the Tucker regime, and Dr. Tucker's chapel talks and vesper services are always discussed with fitting love and respect.
We were joined at dinner by President Dickey, who, after talking to the Springfield alumni Wednesday evening and the Washington, D. C., Dartmouth Club Thursday night, hurried back to Boston to add to our evening pleasure and to learn by experiencing it for the first time some of the values of this type of group reunion. In the writer's opinion, the occasion was as enjoyable to him as it was to us. His confidential and frank discussion of problems and satisfactions during his first year and a half as our president provided an unusual half hour of intimacy in his personal adjustments and decisions in Hanover which indicated his faith in our judgment. We know John Dickey now and this knowledge gives him the complete support of these class groups.
Chan Cox as toastmaster was better than usual. Apparently we have all made the grade established by the first class of the century.
Horace Kidger '03, with long experience in the Newton chools, told us of the continuing success of Dartmouth's selection process; Bunker Bishop '01 expressed the pleasure it gives him each year to escape from the City of Durocher and spend an evening with the classes associated with him in college. GeneSewall '04 remembers the successful struggle to keep Maine in the small but select group of states faithful to Republican doctrines through the New Deal era, and assessed the values accruing from his Dartmouth associations in connection with his judgeship in the Maine Supreme Court.
Gib Fall '05's new secretary who has been school-mastering in Philadelphia, was enthusiastic in the opportunity to spend more time with more Dartmouth groups. Dr. PhilThompson, '02's secretary, furnished the human interest story of the evening with his play-by-play description of the origin of "Alcoholics Anonymous," which was founded by a doctor classmate sorely persecuted for years by alcohol's struggle for mastery at important periods in his early life.
It was another great anniversary of the establishment of this five-class gathering in 1941. Attendance: '01—13; '02—11; '03—14; '04—20; '05—20.
