1890

The secretary is in receipt of a letter from Howard Nutt, 4552 Dover, Chicago 40, Ill. He will make an attempt to see "Heavy" Holmes who lives in La Grange, a west-side suburb of Chicago. At one time, Howard writes, there were 5 '90 men in and about Chicago: Hilton,Holmes, Cheney, Mills and Nutt, who were all present at a luncheon Hilton gave for George Moses. Howard moves around some. He has lived in Florida, Arizona, California and Ill. Now if he will just visit Boston I will dare him to walk up Bunker Hill monument with me.

There seems to be a rumor prevalent that Jimmy Reynolds inherited the major part of his fortune from his wife. That is not true. She was the widow of a former governor of Alabama, I believe, socially prominent in Washington, D. C. society. When Cal Coolidge became President Jimmy and Mrs. Reynolds moved into the White House and resided there until Mrs. Coolidge had met the socially prominent people in the Capitol. Jimmy was worth two million dollars at one time. Most of it was converted into annuities and then he proceeded to see the world and enjoy life to the full. No man ever lived who loved Dartmouth College more than James B. Reynolds of the famous class of '90.

As I read The Boston Herald, I noted what Bill Cunningham wrote in his daily column and what the Bulletins from Hanover have had to say. Colonel McCormick thinks the Revolutionary War is still raging, that we are in constant danger of being absorbed into the British Commonwealth of Nations. Now if the colonel would just come to Hanover, meet President Dickey, President Emeritus Hopkins, Leon Richardson, attend some of the Great Issues discussions, who knows what might happen! He might become an ardent admirer of Dartmouth and endow it with a million or two more.

Secretary and Treasurer, 3 Dartmouth Place, Boston, Mass.