1905

The annual five-class (1901-1905) dinner will be held this year on May 14, in Boston. Plan now to be there and save this date. More about this next month.

"Cy" White is still carrying his share of the burden in his law firm and takes time to bring us up to date on his family. His daughter Margaret is now Mrs. Leroy B. Wilson. The Wilsons live in Evanston, 111., where Mr. Wilson is employed by the Illinois Bell Telephone Company. His youngest son John was married last July to Marian Morton of Boston. John is with the Consumers Water Cos. of Portland, Maine. "Cy" is active in the Dartmouth Club of Maine and manages to be in Boston whenever there is a 1905 gathering.

John Mulqueeney is as busy as ever gathering news for The Fitchburg Sentinel and still finds his work interesting and frequently exciting. He occasionally sees Jim Donnelly and "Mary" Dillon. John has one daughter, Janet, who is secretary to the Fitchburg License Commission.

Ross Wilmot tells me nothing ever happens to him but he does send in the tabulation on the younger generation. His older son, Robert, Dartmouth '34, married Coniston Roberts in 1937, and they have presented Ross with three grandchildren, Peter, Christopher and Sally. They live in Bethlehem, Pa., where Bob has been with Bethlehem Steel since his graduation except for two years in the Navy, coming out a lieutenant. Ross' younger son, John, was an air cadet when the war ended but died suddenly of a heart attack on his way home from Texas after his discharge in November, 1945. John was married in 1940 to Beverly MacAdam in River Edge, and besides his widow he left two children, Sharon and Craig.

Verney Russell continues his work in the State of Washington with the U. S. Reclamation Service. His present assignment is the big job of laying out over a million acres of land into farms of 60 to 120 acres and providing for the irrigation of these farms. This is a tremendous undertaking and not as easy as it sounds. Incidentally, Verney, you might pick out a few choice spots for retired 1905 men who are bucolic-minded.

Percy Noel is no longer a wanderer on the face of the earth gathering material for his outstanding news articles. He has at long last settled down and for the last six years has been in the Washington, D. C., Bureau of United Press doing work which he loves. Percy has a dairy farm in Nokesville, Va., 38 miles from Washington, and drives back and forth every day. How he must love the life in the country! The picture he paints with words leaves no doubt about the charm of his life on the farm. Percy's older son, Henry, is teaching French and Spanish at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa., after spending six years in the army, a first lieutenant when discharged. He will have received his A.M. at University of Pennsylvania by the time this is in print. Percy is now a proud grandfather. His daughter Babs and husband Homer presented him with a grandson, Michael Gayne. Percy and his wife Suzon are happy in their eight-yearold son, Yves Jeffrey Percy Noel. Besides his newspaper work and his farm, Percy has time to sing tenor in the choir of Washington's Epiphany Church, while Suzon teaches in the Church School.

Roger Brown and Bob Harding called on "Doc" Wilkins recently and found him keeping "bachelor's hall" as Mrs. Wilkins was visiting their daughter and family on the West Coast.

The class is fortunate in the honorary membership of Dr. Carl G. Preis. Those of us who know him think he is a grand fellow and a valuable addition to our roster. Carl is vicepresident in charge of engineering for the American Can Company. He was recently elected a trustee of the Prudential Savings Bank of Brooklyn.

Fred Chase spent a month in Florida after Christmas and was hoping to return to the sunny south early in February. Fred's son Hugh, Dartmouth '36, returned from Germany last fall after eighteen months with the Red Cross in Bavaria. Fred's daughter Molly and her husband, Lee Foster, and their twoyear-old son, have moved to Windsor, Conn., where Lee is working for the Connecticut General Insurance Cos. Fred tells me that Walter Lillard is returning from Vienna early in February.

"Elsie" and Mrs. Grover expect to spend the month of March in Florida. They plan to go to their camp in Maine for the month of June. "Elsie's" hobby is fishing and he likes to lure the big ones in both Maine and Florida. In between times he tries to keep in touch with the wooden box business for the Swift River Box Cos., in Athol, Mass.

From The Harvard Business Review for January comes this item:

"In 'Fair Employment Practices Legislation,' Royal Parkinson, Labor Relations Counselor, Boston, discusses what a federal Fair Employment Practices Act portends for business men on the basis of experience with state FEP laws to date, as well as the recent report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights."

Your secretary suggests that each of you keep your directory up to date by writing in address changes. Also please notify the secretary immediately of any change in your address.

New addresses: Rowland P. Balph, 2527 Norfolk Road, Cleveland Heights 6, Ohio. Carl F. Getchell, Oak Hill Road, East Auburn, Maine.

Secretary,. 8027 Seminole Avenue, Philadelphia 18, Pa. Class Agent, 1 Federal St., Boston, Mass.