1905

Once again the outstanding event for our class this summer was our mid-July reunion. Those who attended, enthusiastically proclaimed it the best yet. The quiet and beauty of Hanover and the almost exclusive use of the Inn helped in the enjoyment of three happy days together. Many of us have come to know one another much better than we did even in college days and we all appreciate the charming and equally enthusiastic company of the wives present.

We were all greatly delighted at the presence of Henry Thrall and his devoted wife Connie. His courage and loyalty, in coming 2000 miles to be with us, in spite of his physical handicaps, moved us deeply.

As Sliver Hatch has covered the event in his Reporter, I shall merely state that the business part of our meeting was concerned almost exclusively with plans for next year, when, hard as it may be to realize the fact, we shall be celebrating our 50-year reunion. Also your executive committee discussed the forthcoming issue of the projected booklet, to contain "profiles" of each living member of the class. I must add, too, that as usual C. C.Hills left nothing to be desired in this efficient arrangement of all details for our convenience and enjoyment.

Now for further news: Royal Parkinson, with the Roger Browns, took a very pleasant trip in August, in the course of which he visited the Bob Hardings, Fred Weston,Tommy Wiswall and the Walter Nourses. He found Tommy slowly recuperating from an operation, but able to continue his medical practice. The others were all well. Following that trip he flew on business to Puerto Rico. Royal states in his characteristically whimsical vein that he flew his bathing suit 1600 miles over the ocean without getting a swim! Meanwhile Ida was visiting relatives in Seattle whom she had not seen for seven years.

On his return, Royal had dinner with FredChase, who, he says, is actively busy as an estate farmer, cattle raiser and forester. His grounds with their flowers and trees are gorgeous.

Allen Smith was sorry to miss the reunion but he was "seeing America" with Margaret. They drove to Victoria, B. C., and the Canadian Rockies. En route they stopped in Hanover.

Another traveler in the Far West was HarryLill. With Bessie he journeyed as far north as Williams Lake, B. C., and took in Yellowstone Park on the way. He reported "one of the hottest ever hot spells" in Glendale.

Bill Blatner regretted that he could not be with us in July, but felt it was wise to spend three months with Betty in Minocqua, Wise. We missed you, Bill, but hope the summer has restored Betty to completely good health.

With Hilda and Cy White, Mildred and I visited Walt and Ethel Conley at their summer home, situated with a magnificent view over Sebago Lake, Maine. We were glad to find Walt was making an excellent recovery from his illness of last spring.

Death visited our ranks once more this summer. On July 2 William McFeeters passed on. Our deep sympathy goes to Mrs. McFeeters in her loss.

Who's Who in '05 FREDERICK CHASE

The only member of the remarkable Class of 1905 of Dartmouth who didn't "go to college" was Fred Chase. He was already there, for he was and is a Hanover native. He was not exactly in aboriginal status, for his father had been a county judge (of probate) for fourteen years, and Treasurer of Dartmouth College, too.

Being already a favorite of the faculty and their families, and an alumnus of Phillips-Andover, was, of course, an advantage to Fred compared with newcomers isolated in dormitories, but he did not rely upon such advantage. Warm-hearted and unselfish by nature, he took an interest in his classmates and their activities. He became manager of football, won Phi Beta Kappa rank in scholarship, was a member of Casque & Gauntlet, and remained at college an extra year to earn an A.M. degree in economics.

Fred entered Harvard Law School, rooming with Rufus Day, and in 1909, after a summer trip with Rufus to Europe, Fred, his brother Philip '07, and Carl Skinner '03, were admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. Fred entered the law firm of an old and once all-Dartmouth firm, Hutchins & Wheeler. With this firm he practiced corporation, probate and income tax law for some thirty years until his retirement in 1938. During the last twenty years of this period he was a partner in the firm.

Meanwhile, as a man of wide civic interest, Mr. Chase has been a Trustee of Pinkerton Academy in Deny, N. H., for more than twenty, years, and still is. In the thirties, he served as "representative" to the town meeting of Milton, Mass., where he resides. Also in the '20s and '30s, he served twice on the Milton Board of Public Welfare for a total of eleven years. For the Class of 1905 he served a five-year term as secretary and executive committee member until June of 1930. His research unearthed ten candidates for 1905 Class Baby! For the year 1928-29 he was president of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association. Since 1951 he has had the permanent assignment of "Bequest Chairman" for the Class of '05.

From 1913 Mr. Chase has been connected with the Milton Savings Bank and its ten million dollar assets. He was long its clerk of corporation, trustee, treasurer, and member of its board of investment. For the past five years he has been the bank's president and still is.

On the side, Mr. Chase operates a farm and a flower garden in Milton and occasionally visits his brother Steve, at the latter's orange grove in Florida. In 1934 he joined Walter Lillard's Tabor Academy cruise to view the Henley crew races in England, after which Fred and Walter toured Europe together. Classmates Lillard and Chase acquired adjacent summer camps at Hebron, N. H., to which their young folks still resort.

Whether Messrs. Day and Lillard could have won their fine wives from Dartmouth faculty families without a little pioneering by so acceptable a native son as Fred Chase has never been explored. But Fred himself went to Smith College and the Walter Baker Chocolate Company in Milton to find his fine wife, the late Ruth Gallagher. Their two sons went to Dartmouth - Hugh graduated magna cum laude and "with highest distinction" in '36, but Robert of the Class of '39 was lost at sea in his junior year in a Halliburton adventure, while sailing from China toward America in 1938. Their daughters are now Edith W. (Mrs. Woodrow Wilson) Sayre, Smith 1940, and Mrs. Mary C. Foster, Pine Manor Jr. College, 1942.

After so fine an attainment as raising four such children, and after a long illness, on February 25, 1952, Mrs. Chase passed away. The Chases had visited Hanover often, of course, and have been dependable attendants at class reunions. Mr. Chase, one of a considerable family of Dartmouth graduates, is a cheerful man in any company, a person of ideals and exemplary character, highly esteemed and well liked by a wide circle of good friends.

Secretary, 358 North Fullerton Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J.

Treasurer, 8027 Seminole Ave., Philadelphia 18, Pa.

Bequest Chairman,