1900

Royal Hatch Jr. left active duty with the Air Force in Washington last July and is now Commander of the Alabama Air National Guard with the rank of brigadier-general. His headquarters are at Sumpter Smith National Guard Base, Birmingham, Ala. As far as we know, he is the first of the 1900 family to attain this rank.

Nat Thayer's grandson, Albert L. Toney Jr., is a member of the Class of 1955 at the U. S. Naval Academy. Cut Tirrell reports a new grandson, Ross Dewar Tirrell, born November 25, 1953, to his son Donald.

Mrs. Frederick Jenkins, widow of our classmate, died at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., November 24. She was a former president of the Westchester Women's Club, a trustee and former president of the Martha Wilson Home and had been active in community affairs all her life.

Having received no adverse comments on our digging into the past in The Dartmouths of our undergraduate years, I continue:

January 28, 1898: "Reports to the effect that Ash '99 is in the Klondike are false. A letter just received is dated Mancos, Colo., where John had been employed in the government survey of the forest reserves. ... Next fall he will return to College and enter the class of 1900."

In the cast for the second scene of the first act of Sheridan's The Rivals and the one-act farce, Lend Me Five Shillings, appear the names of Cate, Keyes and Tirrell.

Rapid-transit note: "The afternoon mixed train from the Junction due at Norwich station at 4:40 arrived at 5:20 Saturday. It consisted of 23 freight cars and one combination express and passenger car. Owing to the extremely crowded condition of the passenger half of the car, President Tucker was considerately accorded a seat in the caboose."

February 25, 1898: "The sophomore class banquet was held at the Quincy House, Boston. The menu was all that could be desired and mirth and good-fellowship prevailed. Doc Merrill was toastmaster and the speakers were Sprague, Wentworth, Salinger, Ham and Keyes."

It-never-made-Broadway note: "Tong, Risley and Roberts, together with Pierce '01, are preparing at the suggestion of Professor Emery a college comedy, of original plot, employing scenes and characters familiar to college life. Among the characters will be a football hero, a college sport, a college saint and other general characters. The plot will not follow the hackneyed lines of the usual college story, nor will it be a farcical presentation of college life. It is being written in an interesting vein and may prove of sufficient value for a future presentation by 'The Buskin.'" As far as the writer knows, this died aborning.

March 11, 1898: "Hutchinson '00 took a header from his skees (sic) last Saturday night and injured his knee so that a pair of crutches will be necessary for a few days." This is the first reference to skiing that we have struck in these notes.

At a dinner held at the Harvard Club in Boston on December 29, LeBaron Sampson was honored by sixteen officers, directors and members of the Chi Chapter Association, the alumni corporation of Chi Phi fraternity at Dartmouth. In presenting him with a fraternity emblem, Arthur M. Wyman '07, president of the corporation, spoke of Sampson's having been one of the founders of the Dartmouth chapter in 1902, and having been a prime mover in the purchase of the original house and the building of the present house in 1929. His latest contribution to the welfare of the chapter was arranging the ending of a long-standing indebtedness of the chapter, which now leaves the property unencumbered except for a moderate mortgage.

The Dartmouth men who gathered to honor Sampson included E. M. Dow ’01, G. A. Sampson '01, C. L. Barton '05, H. R. Lane '07, A. M. Wyman '07, G. F. Thurber '11, E. F. McQuesten '16, W. Fielding '20, R. M. Barnes '21, C. H. Jones Jr '23, H. D. Norstrand '26, E. L. Magenis '28 L. W. Shirley '29, J. Wallace '35, C. T. Mam 2nd '38, and A. B. Mansfield '40.

Secretary, Chatsworth Gardens Larchmont, N. Y.

Treasurer, 212 Mill St., Newtonville 60, Mass.

Bequest Chairman, H. LeBARON SAMPSON