1900
In the March issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is a letter from Mr. Ralph S. Bartlett, Secretary and Treasurer of the Class of 89, calling attention to the large collection of class reports of the New England colleges in the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston. Mr. Bartlett advises that the following Dartmouth Class of 1900 Reports are included: 1907, '09, '11, '13, '15, '18, '23, '25, '27, '30, '33, '41 and '50 - thirteen out of our total of 22.
Here's how an error can be made. Copy for Class Notes must meet a deadline of the fifth of the month preceding date of publication. Early in June of last year, X received a letter from Mrs. Channing Sanborn reporting the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kane of Dover, Ohio. Mrs. Kane is Mrs. Sanborn's older daughter. Copy for June issue was due May 5. Next issue was October, copy to be in by September 5, at which time your secretary was still on what he laughingly refers to as vacation, he not having done a stroke of work in years. When he returned to Larchmont, this and a number of other items were just plain forgotten for several months—mea culpa.
As near as X can figure it, Janice Lee Petry, born July 27, 1953, to Douglas (Arthur Wallace's grandson) and Mrs. Petry, and Dorothea Louise Renshaw, born January 18 to David (grandson) and Mrs. Renshaw, raises the Wallace entry in the super-fecundity record (refer to '00 notes in December '52 issue - which you probably won't) to a total of 22.
John Ash still leads. In a letter to Mac, dated February 23, he calls attention to our failure to note the birth of another great grandson, Wayne Ruben Sullivan, on December 20 making his score seven children, fourteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren - total 24.
In the same letter, John tells a fish story which should make us envious of his physical condition. Last December, he and a couple of descendants went fishing in the swift Alsea River. (Ed. note. Never heard of it, which shows the ignorance of us Easterners. Neither do we know as to the December temperature out there.) Hooked on a steelhead. Took forty minutes to get the fish in the net. All the time it was raining, the boat was slippery, John fell down and struck his head on the boat, and broke a finger on his right hand. They were between two riffles. John Jr. was rowing and he had to keep at it the full forty minutes to prevent their going over the lower riffle. Them Ashs is a hardy race. The fish? Sure, a small one — 15 lbs., 12 oz., 3'4" long.
In February Gertrude Balkam went by plane to Pomona, Calif., for her biennial three months' visit with her son Stephen, his wife and their two children. The older grandchild Gilbert is a sophomore at Pomona College. Gertrude had four children: Stephen '29, Lucelia, Gilbert '36 and Robert. There are seven grandchildren. She reports enjoying living at her Harwich Port home on Cape Cod more and more.
Our congratulations are extended to ArthurDowning's son Allan of Littleton, N. H., who, in January, was elected president of the New England Hardware Association.
News of the sons of our beloved L.B. is always of interest to us. Bob Richardson '28 is Dean of Friends School in Baltimore. His home is in nearby Riderwood where he has recently purchased a new home. Ned '29 is traffic operation engineer for Massachusetts with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company - a highly responsible post. He, too, has a new home - 1 Shorewood Road, Marblehead, Mass. His son Bill is now 14 years of age. Stuart '37 is teaching school in Freeport, Maine. He adopted a 4-year-old son last June.
Mrs. Dana Sears has disposed of the home in Hyde Park, Mass., and has moved to be with her daughter, Helen, in Calais, Maine. Helen's husband, Arlo Bates, is in business there. Their son Richard will be 11 next September.
John Moody writes cheerfully from the Veterans' Administration Center at Kecoughtan, Va., where he has been for several weeks, that all goes well with him and that he continues to play quite a lot of contract bridge. He gives us encouragement to hope that he may be able to attend the North Sutton Round-up in June.
Johnny Warden has been gravely ill for some time. In January was confined to bed most of the time at Eva Hartley Nursing Home, Daytona Beach, Fla. Mrs. Warden lives with son John at nearby Ormond Beach and both visit Johnny every day. Son John is associated with the U. S. Weather Bureau Station at Daytona.
The question of a June round-up this year has already been discussed but a final decision has not been reached, pending a canvass by President Rankin, such as was made last year. If the vote favors such a get-together, it will undoubtedly be held, as in previous years, at Follansbee Inn, North Sutton, N. H., on June 25, 26, and 27.
Secretary, Chatsworth Gardens Larchmont, N. Y.
Class Agent, 212 Mill St., Newtonville 60, Mass.
