1905
Be sure to share in the Class undertaking to meet and surpass its quota in the Alumni Fund, by which the College lives and breathes. Make Sliver Hatch's task easy. Help others get the education you received. What do you do for your local charities? Get your name into the Fund. Do more if you can. Do something anyhow. Do it early. There are two yardsticks of the Class responsibility —participation and amount. Surely you can qualify and help qualify your Class under one or the other, and your Class Officers hope under both yardsticks. At a recent report our class stood only at the middle of its 8-class group.
By the time this issues, the intimate and friendly annual five-class dinner in Boston, under the auspices of Bob Harding, will have become history. It is always a favorite Dartmouth gathering.
Many in the Class want another reunion before the 50th. Six years is too long to remain apart. The difficulty is that accommodations at the college are each year absorbed by other classes at or near commencement time. But Put, Sliver and C. C. Hills are working on it.
In bowing out, the secretary pro tem wishes to thank all in the class who have been so helpful in supplying news and career questionnaires, and especially Gib Fall, Tubesse'_ Ed Gilbert, Jim Donnelly, ShirleyCunningham, Clarence Hills, Walter Conley,ufus Day, Bob Crawford, Sliver Hatch and, ast but not least, my good wife. He is grateul, too, to Editor Widmayer and Miss Char- lotte Ford, Chief of the Alumni Records office, for both help and charity in facilitating the work of an amateur secretary.
Next month George Putnam, returning from his trip to California, will take over the secretarial duties, we hope for the next 50 years. No doubt Mildred will find herself sharing in the work. Help them all you can. He will continue the career sketches.
Dr. Thomas (Tommy) Wiswall, the busy and most respected physician of Falmouth, Mass., school physician for 32 years, director of two banks, vestryman and on the staff of Cape Cod Hospital, pays his two daughters the high tribute that they are "good mothers."
Frank Beckley of Great Neck, N. Y., is Vice President and Director of the company he started with 45 years ago upon leaving college—the Ireland Lumber Company of 1246 Grand Street, Brooklyn.
Everett Chisholm, who for 37 years had been teacher of mathematics in the New Haven, Conn. Public High School, suffered a paralytic stroke about a year ago which affected his left side. He retired in May. He was unable to attend his son Stanley's graduation from Dartmouth last June. He doesn't get very far from his bed. Everett has our full sympathy and hope. We know his affliction isn't necessary to keep him from becoming an athlete for Yale. His two sons were each about 4 years in World War 11, the older in the Navy and the younger with General Patton's Army in Austria. The one is a carpenter-contractor and the other is with the General Electric Company.
Carl Getchell, of Lewiston, Me., and Mrs. Getchell plan to attend some early gathering of the '05 clan. Carl's 7-year-old grandson is already making tracks for entering Dartmouth.
The niche for poetry in the Tower Room of the Baker Library of Hanover is named for Percy Ladd's son, a gifted youth who died in the war. Percy himself, since retiring from his 14-year pastorate in Burlington, Vt., has been assistant to the Director of the Congregational Board of Ministerial Relief in New York City.
Hugh MacLean from Chicago writes of the dilemma of one who was always a Democrat until the Democratic Party vanished and is no more. Whatever his despair with that situation puzzling to us all, he assures us that he is harmless and does not bite, and would like to see more classmates than he has been able to. He operates the Mac Lean Construction Company.
Chester Moore (Paene to us) has been active in Boy Scout work for 25 years. Retirement is no obstacle to this fine civic service.
It is hoped that President Dickey, when he makes his visit on state occasions to Wellesley College, will suppress any temptation to take credit for Dartmouth and '05 having the only male class baby of this girls' college. The baby, 6 feet tall, was never able to see any credit in this distinction. Fortunately, a law has now been passed there, we understand, forbidding males to gain admission to the campus of Wellesley College at so early an age by this device.
Charlie Hodgman of the Case Scientific School in Cleveland is still teaching Physics, and does not plan to join the army of the retired very soon.
Clarence and Isabel Hills took a week for vacation in April and journeyed to their old home in Columbus, O., only to find snow and ice there.
C.C. finds that among the Alumni of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York there is questioning of the whereabouts of Dartmouth's moral leadership. The wave of questioning started by the Cirotta case and its predecessors seems slow to fade.
Walter Dillon ("Mary" to us) in a card to C.C. rightly counts it hard luck to have been confined all winter in a hospital. Our career sketch for this issue was prepared a little too late to meet the deadline for the press. In future, we will have several in reserve and avoid this risk.
A most interesting letter comes from RalphKnight, Walter Nourse's roommate, who decided after freshman year to follow engineering and graduated at M.I.T. in electrical engineering. He has followed a career of inventing. He retired from the United Shoe Machinery Company on the first of the year. Pleasant but unprofitable, he points out, for the benefit of those who think of retirement as another form of heaven. Mrs. Knight is not at all well. Ralph, meanwhile, is fraternizing with fish, casting for striped bass in , the surf and pursuing various elusive creatures of the sea and brooks, other than porpoise and whales. More about Ralph later.
NEW HAMPSHIRE BRIDGE CHAMPIONS FOR 1950: Ferdinand B. Edgerly '04 of Manchester (right) receives congratulations from Erlan Woodard, president of the state bridge association, while Ralph Dillian (center), other member of the winning team, looks on.
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