1905

My faithful supporter, Royal Parkinson, has sent me an account of the '05 dinner Friday evening, October 27. Slightly condensed, it follows:

Roger Brown, Bill Clough, Jim Donnelly,Elsie Grover, Silver Hatch, Doc Loder, GeorgeProctor and Royal Parkinson met at a preHarvard game dinner at the Algonquin Club in Boston. Late that evening they visited the '06 party

It was a pleasant surprise that George was. able to be with us again; but a disappointment \in that Clarence Hills and Fred Chase, who had been expected, could not be with us. We missed Bob Harding, without whom such an event has rarely been held.

Halsey Loder had to share the evening with the convention of the American College of Surgeons. He has been constantly busy between Boston and Nashua with operations in hospitals at those cities.

Fletcher and Alva Hatch will soon start for Guatemala to visit their son and his family. They are just back from a motor trip to Alabama to see their newest (nth) grandchild, a boy. En route Silver had lunch with TubbyBesse, Walt Conley and Bill Knibbs at the Dartmouth Club in New York.

Elsie Grover, manufacturer of wooden boxes, says business would be fine if he could only get wood!

George Proctor looked as well and was as alert as we have ever seen him. It was good to see this friendly and kindly classmate.

Bill Clough, rightly proud of his two very successful doctor sons and still the wise, kindly country doctor, at 70 looked as hale and hearty as ever.

Henry Thrall, who refuses to let infirmity handicap him, dropped in but left to dine with '06, though we claim him for '05. We pursued him later and joined the 06 throng, 30 strong. Walter Powers, president of the Boston Bar Association, who was toastmaster, paid high tribute to Judge Donnelly for his contributions to speeding up court cases without sacrifice of justice.

Meanwhile a number of deserted wives, Marion Grover, Frances Brown, Bertha Clough and Ida Parkinson, met at the Statler Hotel, went out for dinner, and then returned for a talk-fest in Marion's room.

Park further reported that Carroll Campbell and Cy White were in Canada at the time of the Harvard game—Camp keeping up his running practice pursuing deer and polar bear in New Brunswick; Cy brushing up his French in Quebec.

Walter Nourse and his wife were getting ready to drive to California. Bill Clough reported that Walter May is making a substantial contribution to education in New Hampshire as Deputy Commissioner of Education.

Walter (Mary) Dillon is still confined to the sanatorium in Melrose.

I am likewise indebted to Ike Maynard for a good account of the Dartmouth Pow Wow in Detroit. Limitations of space force cutting this down to the following excerpts:

At the banquet Friday evening, October 6, which was attended by alumni and wives, a splendid address was made by President Dickey '29. "Toastmaster Zimmerman '23 kept the ball rolling in great shape. The whole affair went off in true Dartmouth tradition."

1905 was represented by Henry Thrall, Minneapolis; Bess and Bill Blatner, Chicago, Walter and Mrs. Rogers, in addition to Ike and his wife, Detroit.

Ike evidently enjoyed the game with Michigan in spite of the sad outcome.

class Treasurer Gib Fall compliments the class on its fine practice og keeping up class dues, and especially for making up the uncollected wartime dues. Fifty-one men joined in the latter, he reports, and paid $548. This discharges the class debt to one of its members, and leaves a balance which Gib has added to the class invested loan fund.

You dwellers in cities, if you would know how pleasant life can really be, pay a visit to Walter Conley. Your scribe and Mildred had the great pleasure of having a little visit with him at his estate outside Morristown, N. J. To those of you who have not had the privilege of seeing Walter at home, let us say he has a comfortable attractive house set among beautiful shade trees, with green lawns and lovely flower beds beyond which stretch his rolling acres to a wood lot complete with a variety of majestic trees, a clear running brook and swimming pool. This is the life that some of you classicists will recall old Horace praised in charming Latin verse. Now that he has retired, he and his wife travel part of the winter and spend summers at Sebago Lake, but Walter comes home every so often to cut hay, pick apples and keep an eye on things. His only son was recently married.

Through Fred Weston we learn that JimStone has a little daughter, recently born. Congratulations, Jim.

We hope to have a good number of '05 men to enjoy the dinner that Besse and Redman '06 are arranging for December 8 at the Dartmouth Club, New York. These affairs are always delightfully pleasant. '05 up!

1905 Fund Contributors

99 Gifts (Participation Index 93). Total gifts: S4.470.08 (106% of objective).

Mrs. Elizabeth M. Walsh (Honorary) Anonymous Archibald, Cecil1 Atwood, Howard D. Balph, Rowland P. Barney, Winfield S. Barton, Clarence LeR. Batchellor, Stillman1 Bell, John H. Besse, Stanley Biggs, Vernon A. Billman, Howard D. Blatner, William D. Borden, Charles S. Boyce, Henry F. Brintnall, Henry S. Brockway, John Brooks, Charles A. Brown, Frederick H. Brown, Roger W. Campbell, Carroll A. Chamberlain, William E.2 Chase, Frederick Chisholm, Everett A. Clark, Robert S. Clough, William P. Conley, Walter A. Cornish, Solon W. Cunningham, Shirley B. Daniels, Frederick L. Day, Edmund E. Dillon, Walter S. Donnelly, James C. Elliott, Herford N. Emery, Walter P. Estes, Charles E. Falconer, Robert C. Fall, Gilbert H. Furfey, John H, Gilbert, Edgar Gilbert, Oscar B. Goodrich, Charles F. Graves, Allen B. Gregory, Ernest T. Grover, L. Clayton Harding, Robert H. Haskell, Harold M. Hatch, Fletcher A. Hazen, Edwin H. Hills, Clarence C.

Hodgman, Charles D. Holton, Ray C.1 Keady, John T.3 Knibbs, John W., Jr. Knight, Ralph F. Ladd, P. Chandler Laing, John A. Lill, Harry A. Lillard, W. Huston Loder, Halsey B. MacMillan, Andrew L., Jr. May, Walter M. Maynard, Alexander R. McCabe, Francis J. Messer, H. Richard Moore, Chester N. Mulally, James H. Mulqueeney, John P. Musgrove, Eugene R. Newick, Ira A. Norton, Henry K. Nourse, Walter L. .2 Parkinson, Royal Peyser, Harry W. Preis, Carl G. Preston, Harry B.4 Proctor, George N. Putnam, George W. Reid, George S.5 Richardson, Edward C. Ricker, George R.6 Russell, Verney W. Sibley, Edward N. Silha, Emil A. Small, Walter B. Small, Walter G. Smith, Allen C. Smith, Harry T. Smith, Leon B. Stevens, George G. Stevenson, Norman Studwell, Lester W. Sylvester, Charles B. Thrall, Henry D. Vaughan, James A.7 Wallis, Louis T. Ward, Harold E. Weston, Frederick S. Weyburn, Lyon White, Ernest M. Wilkins, Samuel H.

Wilmot, Ross H. Wiswall, Thomas A. MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM: 1 William D. Blatner '05.- Airs. Chamberlain.

3 Anonymous.4 Estate of Harry B. Preston.5 Mrs. Reid.6 Income from George R.Richer Fund.7 Airs. Vaugban.

CLASS AGENT FLETCHER A. HATCH 'O5

Secretary, 358 North Fullerton Ave., Upper Montclair,N. J.

Treasurer, 8027 Seminole Ave., Philadelphia 18, Pa.

Class Agent.