1906

The 1953 Alumni Fund Drive will be at the halfway mark when you read this. Here is a reminder to everyone who has not sent in his check to do so at once. In order to reach the class quota this year everyone must do his share. Thanks for your cooperation.

Fat Pratt was in Hanover the last of March and reports that he had breakfast with HaroldRugg and Freddie Parker. Also had a visit with Eric Kelly and Foster Guyer.

A letter from Jack Kingsbury advises that Ruth and he have recently suffered a great loss in the death of their grandson, who was named for Jack. I am sure the class would want to extend their sincere sympathy to them both.

A 1906 Californian wants to know if there is a great-grandfather in the class?

At the San Francisco Convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers, GusAyers was chairman of the Panel Discussion Group.

Arthur D. Holmes has an article in the Journal of Pediatrics on the use of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) tablets to enrich milk for infant feeding.

Pauline and Thurlow Gordon report the birth of their fifth grandson Robert Tuell Gordon —on February 1. Thurlow is receiving hearty congratulations on the preparation of a brief amici curiae in behalf of 98 newspaper publishers who desired to be heard in the case brought under the anti-trust laws against the Times-Picayune of New Orleans.

These newspapers felt that the Government theories might have very serious effects on the newspaper industry generally and particularly on the freedom of the press so Thurlow prepared and argued the case before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Shorty Neal reports six grandchildren, three of each, some of whom reside in Atlanta, Ga., and the others in Tarrytown, N. Y. Their youngest daughter lives in Amherst, N. H.

Roy Denison attended the annual Alumni Dinner in Boston on March 4, but the only other '06 man he saw was Ned French.

If Cap Pierce's grandchildren carry on the family tradition there will always be men with the name of Pierce in this country. Cap's grandfather had three boys, his father had three boys, Cap had three boys, and Cap's sons Charlie and Norman each have three boys. Only one girl, Cap's sister, in no years.

Randall Cooke writes that he has reached the time in life when he is trying to decide whether to retire or start all over again.

Ned French is authority for the information that Bobbie Wallace was the manager, and also a player, on the first hockey team at Dartmouth.

At the week-long tribute to Vermont, sponsored by the Jordan Marsh Cos. of Boston, Charlie Crane was one of the principal speakers.

In February, Nat Leverone spent a restful vacation at the Mountain Lakes Club, Lake Wales, Fla., by travelling all over the state making speeches in 12 different cities. From the itinerary of the speeches he is scheduled to make in the next two months it is very evident that he will have to get acquainted with his family all over again in the fall.

ARTHUR LEAVITT '07 with one-twelfth of a dozen: grandson David, who is one of the more recent of Leavitt's 12 grandchildren.

Secretary and Class Agent 37 East 39th St., New York 16, N. Y