1902

In March, your sfecretary spent a glorious week at The Tides Hotel on the Gulf Coast of Florida, just outside of St. Petersburg. LouisDow and Ethel discovered this grand spot and kindly got reservations for my wife and me.

While in "St. Pete," Louis and I attended a local Dartmouth Club dinner at the Concord Hotel and enjoyed meeting about 24 fellow Dartmouth men of the classes of 1884 to 1942. The only regular Dartmouth 1902 member was Clarence Hosford, although RoyHatch, who certainly gets around, had attended one meeting this year.

Judge Matthews '84, of Concord and Henry Austin '85 were in delightful reminiscent form and told a story of their Dartmouth days which showed the older boys had fun. It seems that 1885 was to have a class dinner in Montreal, so a group of 1884 men stole their toastmaster from the "john" back of Thornton, took him to White River Jet. in a sleigh and left him in a hotel for the night minus his pants. After his classmates had gone on the train, the next morning, the pants were returned plus a ticket to Hanover. He took the pants but refused the ticket, saying he preferred to pay his own fare. Some of the 1884 men were suspended but Judge Matthews says they thoroughly enjoyed their vacation. Austin also remembered when someone sitting near him in chapel let loose a rooster while President Bartlett was conducting prayers. He got the blame.

Xt was especially interesting to meet, also, Johnnie Warden, who introduced himself as Dartmouth 8.5., Dartmouth M.D., and L.E. He said the L.E. stood for Licensed Embalmer and the fio fees he got from that job kept him alive in his early years of practice. Johnnie was brought up in Hanover and knew it intimately from 1885 to 1904. He regaled Louis Dow and me with stories of CharlieBoyle, Bill Suckney and other characters of our day, such as "Dennie" Sargent. The episode which pleased Johnnie most to remember was the time when, at the Webster Centennial, he quarterbacked the Alumni Football team and with only six signals defeated the Varsity.

Louis Dow tells me he was Chief Marshal at the Webster Day Parade and rode a horse then for the first and last time. He also had to wear a beaver hat and hasn't tried one since.

DON'T FORGET MAY 21, THE DATE OF THE DINNER OF THE FOUR CLASSES AT SCHRAFFT'S IN BOSTON!

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