1905

Fortunate is the Class Secretary who has a classmate or two who not only manages to meet other men of his class but, as well, promptly lets the class scribe have the details of such "confabs." Such a one is Tub Besse, who recently had lunch with C. C. Hills. After the pleasant interlude with Tub, C.C. was to call on his daughter in New Jersey, whence he was bound for Columbus, Ohio, and then on to Florida.

That was not the only class encounter for Tub that day. At the Dartmouth Club, whither he wended his way after parting with C.C., whom should he find but NormanStevenson. This, of course, called for another round of entertaining, after which Tub happily found that the office could very well do without his services on that day.

Ralph Knight, who broke his elbow last year, writes it works all right now but is weak. He finds the power steering feature of the new car he has purchased is a great help. Ralph is the grandfather of three boys, the latest born last June to his daughter Cynthia. The other two are his son's, Richard's.

Sliver Hatch was initiated into Tri-Kap last fall as an honorary member. This honor came through his nephew, Roy Hill, who is president of that Society, a senior in college, and a member of Palaeopitus.

The Falconers, Bob and Edna, perhaps our "travelingest" classmates at present, confined themselves to several brief excursions into the high Blue Mountains last summer. At last account they were thinking it might be nice after Christmas to drift lazily down through Florida, Key West and Cuba, with some of the Greater Antilles as further possibilities.

Gene Musgrove and his wife had the pleasure of a five-week visit from their only daughter and her two young sons last summer. They were together a part of this time at their home in East Orange, the rest in New Hampshire. Gene is in his seventh year of teaching at Upsala College, after his "retirement."

Paene Moore and his wife are runners-up in the matter of travel. In October they cruised through the Caribbean on an Alcoa freighter with stops at Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo and Trinidad. Previously they had toured widely in this country and Mexico. At present they are at their old stamping ground in McAllen, Texas. The address is 317 So. 11th St. At last account Dick Tolman, after a wonderful trip to Honolulu, was planning to take his wife to Florida.

Fred Call's address is now Woodlawn St., Clinton, Mass.

Late word has reached me of the death January 27 of Edward Sibley. No details are available at the moment.

The time has come when you men of '05 should decide definitely, if possible, whether you are to be with the Class at our 50th reunion. Before this reaches you, you will have received a reply postcard from Sliver Hatch. Please reply promptly. Remember, this is a unique event. The men will be looking for you.

Who's Who in '05

EUGENE R. MUSGROVE

Saturated with the English language from the printing of it, through the teaching of it, and on into the editing and publishing of it, Eugene Musgrove has made a steady and distinguished career of that subject from birth to his present assistant professorship of English at Upsala College, East Orange, N. J. Born in Bristol, N. H., his first spoken words were in that language. His father was a printer and publisher. While in Dartmouth Gene was assistant editor of the Hanover Gazette of which his brother, Frank '99, was editor and publisher. While teaching English, he edited or published nine books, some of them anthologies of poems and others textbooks.

Always an idealist, a conscientious worker, Gene has had wide interests. Entering Dartmouth from Tilton Seminary, he participated in the college choir, was athletic editor of the magazine. He won the journalistic prize, the Pacific Coast Alumni prize, and honorable mention in English, all in '03. No sooner had he graduated than he became an instructor in freshman English at Dartmouth and pursued that arduous task for three years. Then for four years he taught that subject at Worcester Academy, at the same time earning an M.A. degree at Brown. Still pursuing that path, he taught a year each at Mackenzie School, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., and Horace Mann School, in New York City. In 1914 Mr Musgrove, ending all wandering, settled for 32years in East Side High School in Newark, N. J. Most of this time he was head of the school's English Department. During six of these years he also taught evenings at New York University. Retiring from East Side in June 1946, he began, and is still pursuing, a new career as assistant professor of English at Upsala College. Most of his students can now speak English; according to reliabte reports^

More seriously,' Eugene Musgrove has distinguished himself as a consecrated teacher, as a poet, as a churchman and as a citizen. His ode for a special Newark Board of Education event, expressing the ideal of teaching, has been quoted far and near in educational publications, and in our own Prof. H. H. Home's writings. It earned associate membership for Gene in the Poetry Societies of England and America. Needless to say, he was the class poet upon graduating from Dartmouth.

He has served as president of the Newark Heads of Departments Association. He has long been a member of the official board of the Calvary Methodist Church, East Orange, and chairman of its music committee, as well as having taught its men's Bible class for ten years. .

In the Sunday morning leaflet of this church there have appeared from time to time short poems of Gene's of deep religious import, beautifully phrased. The following is one of these.

I MET YOU, GOD

I met you, God, in early morning light Making a spotless water-lily blow; From blackest muck it rose to purest white; You saw that it was good and told me so.

I met a widow near the valley's head Loving her babe within a barren wood; Though hungry she was rich in living Bread; You looked with heart aglow and called it good.

O God, such miracles you work at will, Each one a vision flashing truth to me; But soon false lights of earth allure until The perfect vision I no longer see.

Dear God, that I could ever thus forget And dare to live as though we never met!

Mr. Musgrove takes his recreation in the form of brook fishing, inside painting, and reading.

During his tenure at Worcester (Mass.) Academy June 1909, Gene took time to marry Eva Fling of his native Bristol, a girl from a good Dartmouth family. Their three children haw all received college educations, all are expert musicians on such instruments as the trumpet, trombone and French horn. Their older son, a graduate of N.Y.U., teaches instrumental music and printing m Westminster, Vt. Their daughter, Mrs. Bowen, a graduate of a teachers' college, taught ten years in East Orange,' N. J., and now teaches in Cristobal, Panama, where her husband is a Coca Cola executive The younger son, graduate of Franklin & Marshall, with an M.A. from a New Jersey Teachers College, teaches English at Goshen, N. Y., High School.

Being grandparents of five, and by such tests as having passed the words of their own skills and ideals in teaching, in printing in English and in music to the next generation while still practicing these arts, Mr. and Mrs. Musgrove have surely attained already a most creditable career.

EUGENE R. MUSGROVE '05

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

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

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