1904

This is the first year of our class life that we have had monthly news throughout the year. Squid has supplied us with fact-full commentary on Who's doing What in 1904; and his top-flight Fund work placed us first with a combination of 258 in the Green Derby classes from 1902 to 1910.

Bill Slayton writes: "After four years' sojourn in the old home town, Lebanon, Marion and I are back again in Contoocook, N. H. permanently, as permanence goes nowadays. This is postmarked Pittsfield, because of a brief interlude at Rachael's farm in lower Gilmanton. Now do you know where we are?"

Roscoe (Cracked Corn) Smith, from Oroville, Washington, visited Beck and SallieJohnson in June, then went to La Grange, Ill., to visit his son and family, and stopped to see Peacham for a short but interesting period, then back to Bellingham, Wash., where with Mrs. Smith and their daughter they were starting on a summer cruise.

Henry Safford conducts an active Park Avenue practice, serves on the staff of the Fifth Avenue-Flower Hospital and lives in Garden City, L. I The Karl Bracketts, the Lampees, and Jig Leverone were Hanover Inn visitors during the early summer... . The Lewiston (Maine)' Sun of June 6 contains this item: "Court will adjourn at 10 a.m. today so Justice Arthur E. Sewall may attend his class reunion at Dartmouth College over the weekend." ... John and Augusta Fletcher arrived in Boston May 27 from Italy, southern France and Spain, and joined Squid, Pete, Ralph, Hammie, Matt, Carl, and Pen in a welcometo-America lunch.

In a newsy May letter from John HenryKirker he sprang the trap which gave us our "1904 Man for the Year," also news of HarrieMuchemore. Jack also boasted of his days on the stage with Jim Maynard, Clary Howes and Ralph Sexton. Returning home from Florida he went to Washington, N. C., to visit DaveFord, who was cheerful and interested in the "scout news of the Class I was able to give him." Thanks to Jack and Laurie for all this, and for the real detective work. X quote Jack: "You will be interested in the enclosed clipping from the Miami Herald. Do you recognize the individual wearing a dark suit, standing in the background? He is listed among the realtors as C. W. Gormly, who must be our classmate as he lives in Kendall, Fla., and I understand has been engaged in the real estate business."

Now the story is Gormly's: "Just briefly, after I graduated from Dartmouth, I put in a couple of years at the Union Law School in Albany, N. Y. Then I went to Indian Territory, and it was about a couple of years thereafter that X was married to the same girl that I had at Junior Prom and Commencement. I bought a home in Tulsa and we lived there until my older son Bob got a bad case of malaria and we then went back to New York City where I was admitted to the Bar and practiced law there until I went into the First World War. Wfien the War was over, my younger son, Don, contracted a lung ailment, so I moved the entire family to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. To do this, I had to resign as First Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Health of New York City, where I had supervision of the hospitals of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and so forth.

"I came to Florida in '34, put in about a year or so down on the Florida Keys in getting myself back to normal and then came back to Miami where I joined the Keyes Company as Associate Real Estate Broker and have been with them ever since. My home is in Kendall, a few hundred yards from this office.

"Mrs. Gormly, whom you met at your Junior Prom and Commencement, suffered a fractured hip bone a little over three years ago and she is a permanent invalid. However, otherwise she is able to get about the home and is in good health.

"I have two sons, Bob and Don. I named Bob after my old and mighty good roommate, BobBrewer. I named my son Don after my very good Dragon friend, Don Logan. My daughter Elizabeth, who was in the last war as an Army nurse, and in the officers' reserve, was called back to active duty on December 1, 1951. She is now in one of the mobile surgical units stationed about 20-odd miles north of the 38th parallel in Korea. We hope to have her back home with us in February of '53."

July 1 was a Red-Letter Day because of an old time reunion with the Charrons on our west veranda. Ike, Ida, Lucille, her husband Frank Record, and daughters a pair of Jays -Jocelyn and Judy. Ike seemed to be, as usual, the life of the party. Now you know the gathering was an event.

July 29 brought Buddy Jackson (Del Junior) with his family, Sue and five-weeks-old Jonathan Adams Jackson, on their way to Sue's home in Maine. Bud finished with substantial honors his course in Tufts Dental College just before this trek through New England.

August 8 Mrs. McKennis and her younger son Geoffrey spent a delightful hour with us in the late morning on the way to Hanover for the weekend.

Saturday August 23 the Houghs Dick and Jane Jackson arrived with a station-wagon load of young Americans: Suzanne, Dicky, Edie, Bill, and twins Bobby and Jane for an afternoon and supper, then off to their summer quarters at Lake Champlain. This is the life and we like it.

The passing of Ame Foster at Cincinnati on August 7 marks the loss of one more from the group who carried Dartmouth Green to new heights in baseball, basketball and football, and in the fall of 1903 christened the Dartmouth-built Harvard Stadium. We recall with happy memories a "night before" gathering for the Dartmouth-Harvard game which was the only appearance of Ame at one of our Boston reunions. It was a pleasurable occasion for some 25 of the Class.

Frank Hamblin "Hammy" to us all died at North Berwick, Maine, July 17, while working in his garden on one of the hottest days of the summer. Ralph Sexton attended the service at North Berwick, and Matt and Pete were present at the committal service at the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.

Many of you will remember Edward, Hammy's son, who was with us at our 45th reunion. He has written of the warm memories he enjoys of that occasion, and extends the gratitude of Frank's family to the class for their kind expression of sympathy.

More about Foster and Hamblin in the InMemoriam column.

New addresses since May Edgar A. MacLennan, 1029 2nd St., Santa Monica, Calif.; Henry B. Morse, 1733 Raymond Hill Rd., S. Pasadena, Calif.; Harry K. Torrey, Eastland Hotel, Portland' Maine; Rev. Percival B. Cobb, 19 Church Rd., Levittown, N. Y.; Burritt H. Hinman, North Stratford, N. H.; William H. Slayton, Contoocook, N. H.; Hedley G. Drew, Alameda and Bay Blvd., Anna Maria, Fla.

Secretary, Canaan, N. H. Treasurer, Morristown, N. J.