1894
Time was (last year, for example) when it would have been a severe disappointment if only five men had been able to come to the Matt Jones Fall Round-Up, October 26. (Incidentally, these five were Ames, Lyon, Marden, Parker and C. C. Merrill.). However, very good reasons could be given for many, if not all, of the absentees. Eleven letters were received from the men who could not come and ten letters came from the "girls of the Class. One very much appreciated note was from Catherine Jones Babcock who said:
"I shall be thinking of you and the friends that gather with you next Friday evening—and there will be memories of the happy gatherings at 30 Ledges Road in 'the good old days.' "
Extracts from these letters will doubtless enliven this column in succeeding months. During the evening the roll of living men was, in effect, called and some information exchanged with regard to each one.
Phil Marden had been asked to prepare an expression of our feelings with regard to Mrs. Jones who had been able to look in at each one of our Round-Ups (with perhaps a single exception) since Matt died. What Phil wrote and what we all approved with the whole heart concluded as follows:
"Boys, we have had many blessings showered upon us, but among them no greater blessing than that of enjoying our association_ with these two inspiring and loyal souls. That is something for which we ought to be, and are, devoutly grateful. While life lasts their memory will live on—a moon of our delight that knows no wane—cherished by the very last one of us to be summoned to the everlasting reunion in that Elysium to which so many, along with Grace and Matt, have preceded us. As of old I like to feel that they are with us still, and we with them."
The Big News that broke during the evening was of the marriage of J. Irving Read and Mrs. Fitzhugh S. Rollins Jr., which took place at Oakland, Calif., August 26, 1951. Irving accuses the Secretary of having a considerable hand in bringing this about because he once raised with his classmate this question: "Have you ever called on any of the Dartmouth widows in the Bay area?" Irving writes:
"But to you it has been given to start a chain of causation by a mere question; to bring years of happiness by the 'amalgamation,' as Dr. Holmes called our wedding, or welding of two broken lives. And I regret that you were too far off to perform the ceremony yourself." Says Mrs. Read:
"I feel honored to have the esteem and affection of two such fine Dartmouth men. We will go on from here and neither of us be lonely any more."
The felicitations of the entire '94 family go to this happy couple.
1894 Fund Contributors
52 Gifts (Participation Index 179). Total gifts: $1,715.00 (184% of objective). G. WOODBURY PARKER, Class Agent.
Adams, Arthur A.1 Allen, John E.2 Ames, William M. Bagley, Timothy3 Bartlett, John H. Blakely, Quincy1 Burnap, Robert L.6 Burnap, Robert L.6 Burroughs, Sherman E.7 Bushee, Frederick A. Claggett, Fred P.8 Colby, Ira G. Crocker, Allen C.9 Curtis, Alvah H. M.10 Field, Frank D. Ford, William H.11 Ford, William H.12 Griffin, Frank A.13 Grover, Edwin O. Hall, Dwight Ham, Ernest G.:: Hardy, Ashley K.K Hodsdon, Edgar C.10 Hoskins, Carl S.17 Hurd, Henry N.18 Jenks, Paul R. Jones, Matt B.19 Knowlton, Kent Lewis, Aubrey C. Lovejoy, Herman S. Lyon, Albert M. McGroty, James W. Mann, George E.20 Mann, John L. Marden, Philip S. Martyn, Frederick S. Merrill, Charles C. Mudgett, Fred L.21 Norris, Alfred E.22 Parker, G. Woodbury Penniman, Robert R.23 Read, Julius I. Rollins, Fitzhugh S.24 Rollins, Walter H.25 Ruggles, Edward F.28 Safford, Edward H.27 Sawyer, Augustus B.2S Sherman, Maurice S.29 Smalley, Bertrand A. Spooner, Edwin V.80 Stone, Edward M. Thurston, Herbert R.31
Townsend, James A.32 Wallis, William J.33 MEMORIAL GIFTS J ROM:1 Mrs. Adams.2 Mrs. Allen.3 Mrs. Bagley.4 Mrs. Blakely.5 Nephew, Thomas K.Burnap '46.6 Nephew, John B. Burnap '4O.7 Son, Robert P. Burroughs '21.8 Daughter, Mrs. LouiseGaines.9 Income from Allen C.Crocker Fund.10 Mrs. Curtis.11 Niece, Mrs. Orpha B.Horn.12 Niece, Miss CharlotteE. Ford '94 hon.13 The Griffin Family.14 Daughter, Mrs. EstherSlack.15 Mrs. Hardy.16 Son, Merrill Hodsdon'28.17 Mrs. Hoskins.18 Mrs. Hurd.19 Charles C. Merrill '94.20 sth Cousin, John S.Mann '94.21 Mrs. Mudgett.22 2nd Niece, Mrs. Stillman F. Kelley.23 Mrs. Penniman.24 Mrs. Rollins.25 Mrs. Rollins and family.26 Mrs. Ruggles.27 Paul R. Jenks '94.28 Mrs. Sawyer29 Daughter, Mrs. Boardman Lockwood.30 Mrs. Spooner.31 Son, Francis C. Thurston '28.32 Mrs. Townsend.33 Nephew, William H.Wallis.
CLASS AGENT WILLIAM R. JARVIS '93
CLASS AGENT G. WOODBURY PARKER '94
CLASS AGENT WILLIAM F. RICE '95
Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass. Treasurer, 60 Maple St., Somersworth, N. H.
