1904
George Scales has come through with thefollowing reminiscence of undergraduatedays that we are sure you will enjoy:
"Ed Coftillard, known to his friends as The Duke of Manchaug (Mass.), came up with the '04 bunch from Exeter. He was among other things a brilliant baseball player, something of a cut-up, and naturally used up all of his allotment of chapel cuts. We were roommates Ist semester, freshman year.
"Came Thanksgiving time in the evening, sixinches of fresh snow, and into the room walks 'Brigham' Young with a box under his arm. His mother had sent a baked chicken, cranberry sauce, cookies, a pie, etc, etc, etc - and a pint of home prepared mustard. Out of the goodness of his heart he had brought it over from his room in the Irish Village, to share it with us. Unfortunately (?) Ed had gone to Leb that evening seeking diversion. So it remained for Will and me to polish off the feast. At long last all the food was gone except the jar of mustard. What will we do with that, says Will. There's Ed's rubber boots, says I.
"Came the cold grey dawn of the morning after. In justifiable haste I washed and dressed but lingered a bit just outside the door. Ed was about two jumps behind me, his chapel cuts also long since exhausted. The oxford shoes he usually wore would be no protection against the new snow. He reached for his rubber boots and thrust his foot into the first. Something seemed to be wrong. Off came the boot and exposed a dripping sock, stained completely a suggestive yellow.
"Whattha hell is THAT," said he.
"Physically unable to reply at that point I slipped quickly down the stairs to breakfast and my religious duties at chapel."
A world banker answers our request: "The purpose of our September visit in Hanover was to attend a seminar of the Brookings Institution along with a number of friends. "We met many very interesting people outside of the Washington group. Since most of the attendants at the seminar were college professors from many sections of the country, my ears were bombarded with erudite preachments. The subject had to do with certain aspects having a bearing on our relations with Soviet Russia. In one of the group meetings, the Chairman, Father Ryan, a very pleasant, a very broadminded and, in my opinion, a very able member of the Catholic priesthood, asked me if I had any comments to make. I replied that thus far the discussions had been wholly on international political aspects, a field which was foreign to my training as I was 'only a banker,' hence I was unable to offer comments or suggestions but if the discussions should get around to financial aspects I might easily have something to say. Father Ryan then asked me why I said 'only a banker' and I replied that for the last 20 years all bankers had been 'only,' a reply which aroused a little amusement.
"One of my Washington friends up there commented on the way automobile drivers observed traffic controls although there were no red and green lights. He said where they paint STOP on the pavement the drivers actually and really stop. And they all give pedestrians a fair deal. That doesn't happen here in Washington. The drivers frequently will run through a red light, and at an intersection when the light turns they step hard on the throttle and go around the corner on two wheels regardless of pedestrians having the right of way
"I am looking forward to visiting Hanover again at the time of our Fiftieth Reunion, if I am alive at that time. I may say, however, that my health is still tip-top, so no complaints on that score."
Harry B. Johnson, manager of the Pittsfield office of Tifft Brothers, was named chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Pittsfield new membership campaign to be staged early in March by Charles W. Dewey, Chamber president. Mr. Johnson will name two vicechairmen. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Mr. Johnson is secretary of the Berkshire County Dartmouth College Club. He has been in the investment business since 1904, beginning his career with the firm of E. D. Shepard & Company, municipal bond specialists. One of the early enlistees in World War One, he celebrated Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, in Paris, returning to Civil Life and Investment Banking soon after, serving the investing public in Springfield and Pittsfield for more than 30 years, 12 as office manager for Jackson & Curtis at Springfield and 20 vears in his home city with Tifft Bros. He is disaster chairman of the Berkshire County Red Cross, trustee of the Church on the Hill in Lenox, member of the Lenox planning board, chairman of the Lenox Electric Light Commission, trustee of Lenox Academy and past president of the Lenox Kiwanis Club.
Newszveek of March 2 carries this most interesting tribute to Morton Withey: "Near the end of the second World War the University of Wisconsin school of engineering was hunting a dean - a vigorous man with bright young ideas. The search lasted two years before university authorities realized that the man for the job was their own Prof. Morton O. Withey (rhymes with prithee) at 64 one of the brightest and most youthfully minded men in the profession. Last week Wisconsin announced Dean Withey's forthcoming retirement at the mandatory age of and simultaneously released a progress report on the research project that has lasted most of his adult life." The research item will be found elsewhere in this issue, or the May number of the MAGAZINE.
As of March 5 this is the Sewall story: "I have resigned from the Superior Court of Maine in order to take advantage of our retirement system which requires that a justice retire betore he becomes 71. However, the Governor and Chiet Justice have prevailed upon me to accept an active retired commission, which makes me available to hold terms when requested by the Chief Justice. 1 assume, therefore, that for some time to come, 1 will still be a part of the Maine Judiciary. In my spare time, I expect to practice law in New Hampshire and do some probate work in Maine At least I hope to be able to keep out of mischief.
"I am planning right now to leave Sunday, March 8, for two or three weeks in the South, so 1 may see some of our classmates before I come back.' However 1 have to be back by April 7 to hold the regular term of court. I can report that 1 have 13 grandchildren, so should be well up in the running."
Here are May meetings that hold much interest for Dartmouth men of. our generation. The eight class annual dinner is on Friday, May 1. As usual return postcards will reach'you for your registration for this May party at Schraffts. The notification to class officers for the May meeting will come from the Secretary Sidney Chandler Hayward. By the way. read page 28 in the March issue and figure the mileage Sid will cover March 17 to 31 to collect an even dozen "Spring Alumni Dinners." Not much enthusiasm developed by that cold statement but translate every mile to represent a Dartmouth man alerted to the College he knew as an undergraduate, its accomplishments and forward looking future and its needs to build that future. We hope all the men of our class in the areas Sid will visit will be in the front ranks to welcome our Dartmouth missionary.
Congratulations to '05 for having Ed Gilbert in the production line. An enlightening paragraph in the March issue '05 notes speaks proudly of the birth on January 23 of Frederick Henry Daven, Ed Gilbert s GREAT-grandson. This brings us to the question of grandchildren with Sewall, Walker and Withey in a three-cornered tie at 13 each at this writing. We must find a couple of greatgrandchildren for the May issue.
Our campus reunion Commencement Week June 12-13-14 promises a good attendance and you will receive definite instructions as to our location and the method of registering in the May MAGAZINE. It's the weekend that belongs to an ever increasing graduating class. We have been fortunate and are assured by Max Norton that we shall have accommodations but I am sure Max would be overjoyed if some reuning class would make their commencement week trip in trailers.
FUND RAISER: Fletcher A. Hatch, Class Agent for 'O5, is all set for the 1953 Alumni Fund campaign beginning this month.
Secretary, Canaan, N. H.
Class Agent, 9 Foxcroft Rd., Winchester, Mass.
