1900
The news of the death of James BurtonReynolds, Secretary of the Class of 1890, brings special grief to the secretary. His undergraduate career was before our time so that most of the members of 1900 had little personal contact with him, although his acquaintance with Dartmouth alumni in general was large. It happened, however, that in 1932, when the secretary and his wife were about to embark on a trip through the Mediterranean, they found on board the ship Jimmie and his wife and Trustee Henry B. Thayer '79 with his daughter and her husband. This Dartmouth group formed a unit during the voyage and the resulting companionship is one which we shall always remember. Jimmie was enamored with party politics, with the game of political campaigns and was highly influential and active at the very center of Republican management for the greater part of his career. His acquaintance with the political leaders of his time was astonishingly large and he had an important share in the manipulations resulting in nominations and elections during that entire period. Good natured, jovial, frank and communicative, never disturbed by active objection to his views, his stories of men and measures, always amusing, were of the utmost interest. The friendship thus begun continued in subsequent years. Of course the political outlook of the secretary and that of Jimmie were poles apart, but that only added to the interest in our contacts. In a recent controversy conducted in the respective alumni notes of 1890 and 1900 in this MAGAZINE, Jimmie began the debate by advocating a censorship of The Dartmouth in matters political. To this measure the secretary stated certain objections, calling forth a rejoinder in which Jimmie classified the secretary as one who tried to conceal his thoroughly radical (not to say communistic) views under the mask of liberalism, while admitting, in all fairness, that the secretary probably looked upon him as the most bigoted of Tories. In a letter received very recently Jimmie expressed his gratitude to the secretary for enabling him to prolong the issue, thereby giving him something with which to fill his column in a dearth of class news in a class much reduced in numbers and with a minimum of activity which would give rise to news items. The College can ill afford to lose the active and loyal alumnus that he was; to his host of friends his departure comes as a poignant personal bereavement.
Burton Buck reached the age of 70 in January as did Freeman Corson and ArthurRoberts. Burton writes that his feelings of age are highly variable: sometimes he feels about 40, sometimes in the vicinity of 100. Arthur is improving his retirement by becoming a member of the Massachusetts Civic League Education Commission and acting as consultant of the Bituminous Coal Institute of Washington, D. C.
Paul Wilson writes from Newcastle, Maine, where he has closed his home "Brick House" for the winter and is living in the Newcastle Inn.
Mrs. Gilbert Balkam is making an automobile trip to California by the southern route with her son, Stephen, who resides in that state.
Mrs. Charles W. Rogers has been confined to the hospital as the result of a bad fall just after Christmas which caused some injury to the spine. She is spending the winter in her sister's home in Braintree, Mass.
As usual, the attractions of Florida have had their effect upon a number of members of the class. This hegira seems reasonable to the secretary marooned in Hanover, where the morning temperature for the last month has remained consistently far below zero, with a recordbreaking amount of snow. He consoles himself, however, with the sour-grapes point of view that when it is cold in Florida everyone shivers in misery, while in New Hampshire, if you keep indoors, you are comfortably warm (so long as the supply of oil holds out). Jonakowski is a year-round resident of Sarasota, and the following have long been steady winter visitors: John Warden at St. Petersburg, LemHodgkins at Clearwater, Harry Marshall at Coral Gables and Henry Teague at Miami. Jed Prouty is at New Port Richey, Mrs. Clark at West Palm Beach, Mrs. Fred Jenkins at Ormond Beach, Mrs. Phillips at Winter Park, Miss Hildreth and Mrs. Buckley at St. Petersburg. Truly a fairly complete coverage of the state. Col. Teague has not been entirely fortunate during his Florida stay. Riding in a taxi cab he was struck by the car of a hit-and-run driver (later arrested on the comprehensive charges of running a stop sign, drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident). The cab was nearly overturned and Henry was thrown on his head with resulting bruises but no broken bones. "Nothing serious but quite a shock" is his comment.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer and Class Agent, 212 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass.
