1904
It is the sad duty of the editor to report the sudden death of Dave Austin, the 1904 class secretary, at his home in Canaan, N. H., on March 19. Shortly before his death he had written the following class notes for this issue, and up to the day of his passing he had been engaged in planning for 1904's fiftieth reunion in Hanover this June. Surviving are his wife and two daughters, Deborah, who teaches in Portland, N. Y., and Nancy, of Canaan.
As noted in our March column Carl Woods went to work on a new job February 3. A short month later, the Christian Science Monitor reports on March 21
"Business Aid Group Grants First Loans. The Massachusetts Business Development Corporation, set up to finance new industries and aid expanding businesses, today announced approval of its first loans, totaling $635,000. The private organization, which obtains funds through member financial corporations, is considering additional loans totaling $500,000, Carl F. Woods, president of the corporation 'said. Making his first annual report Mr. Woods said a total of 125 applications for financing have been received, although the corporation was authorized by the Legislature only, last July and has actually been operating only since January.
More power to the youth of the class and his continuance of a life time interest in the all round development of his home State of Massachusetts.
Tom and Ruth Streeter returned home March 10 after an enjoyable and refreshing Caribbean Cruise of ten days.
King Woodbridge's freshman grandson is John Roger Jeanneney '57 of New Paltz, N. Y. He is the son of Woodbridge's daughter Janet (Mrs. Jean P. Jeanneney). He came to Dartmouth from New Paltz High School, and was a freshman cross-country runner this fall. We see in this item a promise that King will be with us in June for our 50th. With his representative, John Roger, on hand to show him the Dartmouth of NOW, to which King may add features from the Dartmouth of THEN, which we found on the Hanover Plain at the beginning of the century.
Two requests have been filled for the July '49 MAGAZINE ('04 column March) and the story of our campus reunion, the 45th. Read your reunion MAGAZINES and with your 1954 Class Directory make reunion plans for the June days ahead with companions of other years.
About the middle of February Ida Charron fell on the ice and broke her hip. The fracture was reduced February 23 and later information indicates a considered opinion by the operating surgeon that it was successful and indicates that a much quicker recovery than had been anticipated may be expected. Meantime another event, this one expected, was the birth on March 1 of a son to the Records, Lucille (Charron) Record and Frank, who now have two girls and a boy.
Impatient at the lack of news from our Florida contingent Sid grabbed Louise, locked the door from the outside and hustled to Boston on March 4, apparently planning to do a McCarthy on any '04 man to be found. Loud language and brow-beating words were dumped overboard, for there in Boston were Pen and Sarah, just back from the baseball areas of the South. Dinner, a couple of rubbers and an elbow-bending contest between the frozen North and the hospitable South brought forth memories of the spring flowers in the Public Garden, but no accidents on the ice. Carl was in Portland with Jim and Nancy for the weekend. That's the story from one of our roving correspondents.
Note - please - that the eight-class dinner at Schraffts announced in March issue, for Friday, April 30, gives way to the Dartmouth Alumni Officers meetings, Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1. So eight classes, completely in step with the College and its need, will gather at Schraffts, West Street, in the late afternoon of Friday, May 7, to continue the most interesting series of reunions yet enjoyed in the Dartmouth Fellowship. MAKE A NOTE OF THE CHANGE in your day-by-day planning.
There is no news about Jack Dailey yet.
Harry Ham was among the youngest third of the Class, and lacked a few weeks of attaining the Biblical three score and ten, at the time of his death, February 20. Elected to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1907 as Representative from Dorchester he was the youngest man ever to be enrolled a member of the Massachusetts House. We shall miss Harry at Class gatherings, particularly reunions, in which his reminiscent observances were kindly, and characterized any man, not present, in a favorable and interesting light. Mrs. Ham wrote, "Thanks for the beautiful spray. ... Harry will be missed by his many friends. No better man ever lived - always thinking and doing for others." The In Memoriam section includes the notes about Harry.
'04 FIFTIETH REUNION. Commencement weekend June 11-12-13.
CUTTER HALL, former Clark School building on North Main Street and now a Dartmouth dormitory, has been named for the late Victor M. Cutter '03, who served as a Trustee of the College from 1933 until 1951. Opened this semester, it houses 36 students.
Treasurer, Morristown, N. J.
Class Agent 9 Foxcroft Rd., Winchester, Mass.
