1911
The Executive Committee of the Class has, according to its constitution, elected its officers who will serve until the next reunion in June, 1955, as follows: Austin C. Keough, President; Eugene R. Gardner, Vice President; RaymondR. Taylor, Vice President; Sargent F. Eaton, Treasurer; Nathaniel G. Burleigh, Secretary; Joshua B. Clark, Class Agent; and John C.Sterling, Chairman, 1911 Memorial Fund.
We shall all miss George Leach, who died of a heart attack in his home in Pasadena on August 11. It gives me a great deal of satisfaction that Bee and I were able to have a short visit with him and Parie while in California last fall. George had retired following a heart attack a year or so ago.
The Secretary of 1911 wishes to express publicly his great regret that Hap Hinman has found it necessary to retire as secretary of the Class of 1910. Hap is a grand guy and has been a wonderful secretary of influence far beyond the confines of 1910. We hope he still will continue to attend the Secretaries Meetings and that he will still grace Hanover with his presence frequently, as he has in the past. Best wishes go to Russ Meredith, who is going to carry on in Hap's place.
Chub Sterling has returned to work practically full time and is raring to go again. He got a lot of publicity last spring when his picture, alongside Celeste Holm, made most of the papers. This was at the NAPA convention in Chicago.
The Jim Mathes are now settled in their new apartment at 660 Park Ave., New York City 21.
The secretary modestly announces the arrival of a grandson, John D. Hewitt, last May.
George French, following our reunion, joined his wife in Paris, where he went in the interest of a proposed international convention in 1953 of the Y-D body, of which George is a former national judge advocate. He and Margaret made a tour of the battlefields of France.
Josh Clark, our new class agent, with whom many of you will eventually be in contact, is moving his office to 84 State Street, zone 9, Boston, Mass.
Last spring Howard Dunham was decorated by the French Consul Albert Chalbon with the palmes academiques and named him officier d'academie at the Lafayette Day ceremonies in Boston. He was awarded this honor for the time he has spent and his faithful loyalty given to the French people by teaching their language and literature over a prolonged period. He has been teaching French at Dartmouth for 35 years. After his graduation from Dartmouth, Howard studied in France for a year before continuing his graduate work at Columbia University.
Dave Heald's youngest daughter Miriam graduated from Wellesley last June with honors and is now employed by the International Business Machine Corp. in Boston.
Al Hormel is a Resident Engineer on reactivation of a magnesium plant at Painesville, 0., which he expects will be in production in a few months stockpiling for the Government.
Bob Keeler has a new business address at 900 Union Trust Bldg., Cincinnati, but with the same firm.
Mary Jane Kenworthy graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Wheaton last June, where she was a Wheaton Scholar in mathematics, and is now teaching mathematics in Melrose, Mass.
Dave Kimball, Warren's younger son, married last fall. Name of bride not stated.
Ted Clark, Josh's youngest son, who was married to Mary Katherine De Forest, known to her friends as Rickie, is an interne in the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover.
Recently John Pearson drew a book on international relations from the College library and was interested and pleased to find a book plate which stated that it was donated in memory of Dick Whelden. Further inquiry discovered that Priscilla had given to a Memorial Fund for this purpose.
Lyme Armes '12 deserves credit for the following vote of confidence in the Class of 1911, which appeared as an editorial in the Jack-o-Lantern when he was editor-in-chief in June, 1911:
"For that reason we anticipate with great pleasure the return of the 'old grad,' who comes back in the days of his balditude to see 'the boys' and to exhibit the credentials which Posterity has bestowed upon him. And again, for that reason, we bid goodbye to the Class of 1911 with the greatest of confidence and a hearty slap on the back. It has ever been one of Dartmouth's most powerful classes and (the other classes) expect great deeds of it before it returns for its semi-centennial Commencement reunion.
"We gauge the calibre of our Alma Mater by the 'big guns' she produces and, at such times as these, we gauge it best. Athletic prowess is glorious but temporary. Great men and valuable services are immortal."
Gabe Farrell retired as fourth director of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Watertown, Mass., on July 1. Gabe served the Institute for 20 years with great credit to himself and the institution. He will still be in close touch with it.
Classmates and wives will be interested to know that Inez Adams is again back in her former job as house mother at the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority at 8 Bagdad Road, Durham, N. H. She is happy and very grateful for it to be possible to be among her many friends again.
1911 REUNION AT WHITEFIELD, N. H., BEFORE THE OFFICIAL ONE IN HANOVER
Secretary, 1 Webster Terrace, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, ; Howland Dry Goods Co., Bridgeport 2, Conn.
