1911
Mary Dodge writes, "Yes, I most certainly would like the class to come up the first week we open same arrangements as before the opening date is Sunday, June 14." Can we ask more? Please let Mary know your plans soon - all come time is a-running!
Nat Burleigh's address is Albergo Palazzo Torino, Torina, Italy. Am certain that letters will be most pleasing to Bee and Nat.
Miriam and George Morris have been most instrumental in restoring and turning over to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Woodlawn" in Washington, the original home of Nellie Custis, granddaughter of Martha Washington, later adopted by Martha and George. (So Jack Ingersoll writes me. Here's hoping he's correct.) What next, you two public benefactors?
Mrs. Marjorie M. Miles and "Jake" Lovejoy were married December 27, 1952- Congratulations and welcome, Marj! Ellen C. Ramsey and Ken Clark Jr. were married February 7 at Memphis, Tenn. All married now, Elizabeth and Ken.
Doc Bond appeared in September Trustsand Estates magazine with an article on "The Essentials of Pension Fund Investment. Good going, Doc! Don Cheney is President of Central Florida Council of Boy Scouts - lucky scouts! Linda Hawkridge and Barbara Patten have been "birding" in the Florida Everglades they both agree on what they see - sometimes!
A Ray Taylor Memorial Fireplace is being sponsored by the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California for its cabin at Donner Summit in the High Sierras. If you wish to participate, please send check to Lincoln S. Wilson, 106 Sutter St., San Francisco 4, Calif.
Arthur C. (Tate) Theriault passed away February 8 at Montpelier, Vt. Details in Obituary column.
A. " 'On the top of a hill by a winding river,' began an old story —so did ours. We have seen an indefinite unknown group come from the four corners, flourish, and depart, taking with them that story - Dartmouth in their hearts. Perhaps the hill is far away, but we all have that one paradise of which one can never be robbed - remembrance. So when I am accorded the right to speak to each member of the class, there is a tendency to hark back. But we all have those days, and we were told to make our letters short and personal. So here goes.
"The quest for gold led me first to a silver shop, The International Silver Company at Bridgeport. But here the situation did not seem very promising, so after one year, I went with Hincks Bros. & Co., bond dealers. So now I devote my entire time to the sordid lucre of Connecticut. My whole career sounds horribly prosaic. I am sorry I cannot tell you of a meteoric flight to fortune. For amusement and pleasure I indulge in occasional trips to New York where a little gang meets and extols Dartmouth. To be sure, the industrial capital of the nutmeg state has inducements, but they are not strong enough to draw any of the boys to my roof. And now there remains only to say that I am not married and am without even hope of such fortune. Goodby all, and best of luck to everyone."
B. "My own doings for the past five years have been commonplace indeed, and I doubt if they will be of interest to you. After leaving Dartmouth at the end of freshman year, I entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy and graduated in 1912 as a civil engineer. Since graduation, I have been with the engineering department of the Public Service Commission of New York.
"My earnest wish is that all of you are enjoying health, happiness and prosperity."
C. "I have regarded myself rather in the light of a man without a country, as I entered with 1910, and graduated with 1911, but as I look back on College days, I can heartily say that the last year of my course, with the class of 1911, was the most pleasant and the most profitable of any of the four years at Dartmouth. With this letter, I want to say 'greetings and good luck' to the boys I knew in 1911, and the same to the classmen I did not know. It was, indeed, a worthy class, and long may it prosper as the best class in Dartmouth history."
D. "My 'career' has not been streaked with a kaleidoscopic series of events since graduation, as perchance have some of yours, for 1 am still plugging away in Hanover, along with a few of the other members of our illustrious class, Clutie, Carroll and Gaylord, hoping that some day we will be able to relieve your ailments, and extract useless organs and incidentally extract a few shekels from our victims."
E. "Not married - don't expect to be don't want to be. What's the use? Still running around loose - meaning never get tight-and out of jail. At present am extracting a meagre subsistence from the unsuspecting public through the medium of insurance. Long may the public remain unsuspecting! When in town, call around.
F. "As soon as I completed my course of study, I started to work with the Oliver Typewriter Co., and have been anchored at the same place ever since, and have been attended with success very fair for a beginner. I am neither married or engaged, as seems to be quite the fashion with many of the 1911 boys, but perhaps X will try to find a way to be soon, although I sincerely hope not."
G. "Someone defined an autobiography to me the other day as 'any Harvard man's conversation.' I don't want any of you to think I have caught that spirit after four years of Dartmouth antitoxin treatment, but this letter must be somewhat in the nature of an account of one's self.
"This is the middle of my second year of graduate work here at Harvard, and I have enjoyed it immensely. I am rooming with one of the ex-Dartmouth men here. He is long and lank and husky and tow-headed - sure thing! Capt. Weston, 1911. I met one of the fellows in Boston the other day, and after hailing me he said, 'Let's see, you're married now, aren't you?' 'Not yet?' 'Well, I heard something startling about you. Are you engaged?' Whereupon I had to admit that for once Dame Gossip had not lied. Of course, this occupies the greater part of my horizon, but knowing the propensities of some of the 'ones that have gone before' to talk columns upon the Subject (feminine), I won't allow myself to get started - though I must confess I think now that I judged them harshly! This is, in a few words, what has been my course of life and my fortune since we smoked our last pipe together around the old pine stump."
H. "Went directly to work after leaving Hanover, and have not yet amassed sufficient wealth to warrant my withdrawal from business. Just at present there would be more money in selling antiquated Aegidii to resisting members of 1911.I have a job in the shops of the M. Rumely Co., of this city. The firm manufactures almost everything in the line of farm machinery. They rank next to the International Harvester in this field. My job will keep me here for some months. Later I hope to go West. Any members of 1911 passing through this city will do me a favor by letting me know that they are on hand."
I. "After a year spent among the hills of Vermont, instructing Young America in the three R's, I am once more enrolled at Dartmouth with the coveted degree in sight. I hope to finish up in June, and then will try to overcome the one year handicap in the chase for the almighty dollar and success. Good luck to all of you in whatever you try."
A. Chub Sterling. F. Paul Briggs. B. Ben Livingston. G. Brad Patten. C. Carl Groat. H. Troy Parker. D. Spim Norris. I. Jim Malley. E. Jerry Barnes.
Notes Editor and Class Agent 84 State St., Boston 9, Mass.
Secretary, Tuck School, Hanover, N. H.
