1905
A certain amount of housekeeping is always needed for keeping a family or a class together. As friendly a group as we of '05 are and devoted to Dartmouth, we need some work done in order that our friendships may grow. It is difficult to find workers even for the class. It is to the credit of Gib Fall that, even though he and Mrs. Fall could not carry the full load again, he is willing to continue to carry the financial part of it. We can be thankful, too, that Fletcher Hatch is again willing to lead us in meeting our financial responsibility to the great work of the College for wave on wave of younger men following in our wake. For the third duty, the secretaryship, there was no waiting line. We wanted Betty McCabe, Frank's daughter, whose presence at the reunion everyone enjoyed, to be secretary. But she escaped by proceeding at once to marry. Being already married, GeorgePutnam and I could not escape. So we divided, up the job for the next 50 years. I take the first year, and he takes the other 49.
As Gib has told you we had about 73 at the 1949 reunion. Confidentially, the wives, the children and the grandchildren are as much a part of the class as we are and added a lot to the reunion. For instance, there was no one in our class who could play baseball with me, but Dr. Cornish's grandchild could.
Inquiry among a number of you has encouraged the idea of including in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE '05 notes for each issue the full life story of one or two of you. The idea comes from what my father did, step by step, for the Class of '78. We of '05 are starting late, but if we don't start soon, it may be too late, so many of us have already retired. I will need to depend on you to overcome your modesty and fill out a questionnaire and return it. The questions are only a skeleton. Tell all that interests you. Every man's life is interesting to his classmates. X will try to prepare a biography from this but may have to ask you for more information. We will try this experiment in the next issue. Meanwhile, the questionnaires will reach you, a few at a time.
Now for 'O5: Reunion conversations indi- cated that our class is now divided into three parts, just as was all Gaul fifty years ago, ac- cording to our Latin literature. About a third of us survivors are now retired. This includes some who are too ill to work. Another third are expecting to retire fairly soon, and the re- mainder will never retire, the Lord willing. Confidentially, retirement seems to mean do- ing outdoor work, or doing work you like, not doing no work. Those who will never re- tire are doing work they like. However, we survivors are only two-thirds of the original class. Do you realize that over seventy of our classmates and friends have gone ahead to another life and are waiting for us? One wishes we knew how their surviving families are succeeding.
Rufus Day, for 48 years a credit to the class in his diverse capacities, including 12 years as President of Cornell, seems to be one of the never-retiring group, but he has switched jobs. He is now Chancellor of Cornell University, an extensive and fine institution with distinctions other than those on the athletic field. This change is intended to lighten an overload for Rufus without becoming a vacation. You may know better than I what a Chancellor is. It has something to do with the exchequer and with educating the state and national governments to be Cornell-wise. My guess is that it is something like SliverHatch's job, except that Sliver's appeals are confined to the Class of 'OS in another college.
Judge Jim Donnelly, who contributes fairness and common sense to the high courts of Massachusetts, and presumably adds some knowledge of the law (but how could we know about that?), had intended to go westward vacationing with Mary. But they decided that 98° in Hanover was hot enough, so they lingered there a little while instead.
Maude: Harding, whose presence has added to the pleasure of many of our reunions, has been having a health-exhausting experience. For the coming year, she will teach at Pine Manor Junior College in Wellesley, near home, giving up hen long and fine career of Boston University teaching. Like the Falls, the Hardings summered on Cape Cod.
Doctor MacMillan of Concord, N. H., made the class reunion also a family reunion. We were glad to welcome his attractive bride and his daughter with her husband Joe Merrill, son of our classmate Joe. Mac's other daughter Elizabeth was married in May to John D. Briggs of Ridgewood, N. J., in the presence of Bill and Bertha Clough and Clarence Hills. The couple will live in Cohasset, Mass.
Charles E. Estes, returned from his long career on the faculty of Roberts College, is now Minister of Music, Organist, and Choirmaster for the First Parish Church of Dover, N. H., but lives across the line in South Berwick, Me., with his sister and uncle. There he has a collection of oriental tiles, brasses, and coppers, well worth seeing. Remembering Ned as a fine organist, one can imagine his pleasure in the decision of the church to add to its organ a $lO,000 improvement.
Probably no finer exhibition of college and class spirit could be found than the presence of HenryThrall at the reunion, physically much crippled and limited as a result of his paralytic stroke, but a joyous comrade, adding a lot to the pleasure of the occasion, with no complaining. With him, but even more handicapped physically, spending all his time in the hospital, was Shorty Davis 'O6, whose pleasure in being even that close to reunion activities was contagious. Henry and Shorty have done a lot for Dartmouth, though far away.
Bob Clark in Berkeley, Calif., is still living in spite of twice surrendering to surgeons with knives in their hands. But he is on the shelf. Irving Cobb wrote a humorous book entitled My Operation. Perhaps Bob will come forth with something similar but plural. He expects to get on the road again. So few of us have seen Bob since he left us in 1902 that we would like to meet him soon.
Walter Nourse, who oscillates annually between oceans, will do so no more. He has just been retired from his school principalship in Los Angeles. He has been building a home in Martha's Vineyard in the Atlantic where he will park permanently. We hope he will come ashore often.
Jake Atiuood, as you know, built up and operated a trucking and Public Bondage Storage Warehouse business in St. Petersburg, Fla. His son Robert, recently married, is now with him in the business. It would be a pleasure to see Jake after these many years of remoteness. Winfield Barney, of the Romance Language faculty of the Women's College of the University of North Carolina, gave his daughter in marriage in July and came north in August. If any of the class visited with him then, we will appreciate a report of all the news obtained.
For the class, the Secretary is sending his sympathy and good wishes to Walter ("Mary") Dillon who has been hospitalized so long at New England Sanitorium in Melrose, Mass. Drop in on him when you are near.
Stillman Batchellor, too, is a victim of illness on his California ranch. With failing vision and hardening arteries, we know we cannot see him again in Hanover, but he is still a lovable person, and we send him our best wishes.
By no means has Jim Mulally retired from his position as Assistant General Counsel for the Great Northern Railway. Two of his sons are lawyers, too, and another is an officer in the police department. Np connection between these two facts is implied. All his five children are now married, including his mighty nice daughter who was with us at the last reunion. With seven grandchildren in addition you might think of Jim as a patriarch. On the contrary, he has taken a bride whom he would like to acquaint with Dartmouth and 'O5, and whom of 'O5 would like very much to meet.
Walter B. Small of Providence is enjoying retirement. Still single.
Walter G. Small of Brockton is only semiretired. He had his trainee advanced to his title and responsibility as Superintendent of the Brockton Edison Company, while Walter continues in the role of consultant. Also still single.
Shirley Cunningham, who transferred from the Vice Presidency of Prentice Hall to the Presidency of a family not so long ago, summered in Estes Park, Colo, with Mrs Cunningham. As Mrs. Cunningham suffered hospitalization earlier, we hope this means she is recovering. She is little known but well liked among the class through the few who did meet her.
The Harvard football game on October 22 will provide another nice occasion for a friendly gathering of the class, this time in Boston. On the evening before, that is Friday, the 21st, we will have a class dinner at the Engineers Club at the corner of the Public Garden. It is on Beacon St. opposite the end of Arlington St. Come, but notify the Secretary first.
An invitation to share this Secretary job: I don't have the time in my work to get about and meet you fellows of the class in your several haunts, much as I would like to. So will you send in, from far and near, those bits of information about your attainments, or your family's attainments, or changes in your routine, or snapshots—anything which brings you to life in the minds of your classmates, and when in Boston, won't you pay me a visit at 335 Statler Office Building?
Secretary, 335 Statler Office Bldg., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, 8027 Seminole Ave., Philadelphia 18, Pa.
