1898
News comes to us belatedly from Hanover, Mass., that Ev Snow has not lost a bit of his spirit with increasing years. He and Ruth celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on January 10 last, to be followed in mid-February by Ev's fall, as he was hurrying downstairs to meet that same Ruth while they were on a day's visit to Boston. Result, says Ev, was an "impacted hip," which to those of you who are not anatomically wise would mean that he broke the neck of a thigh bone and subsequently the broken ends of bone were driven together or "impacted" (if you will have a medical secretary, you must pay the price). Ev managed even with this handicap to get to his car and drive home - though I don't see how he did it - but the doctor gave him two weeks in the hospital. Then home with special nursing for some weeks, so that at the end of March he is in a wheel chair two hours daily and pining for more activity. Such an accident is a tough dose for anyone to take. But, following the reports from that part of the country, what could he have done if he had gone outdoors with its daily blizzards. Best wishes to you, Ev, from us all, better weather and always a continuance of those good spirits which you display and which help you to achieve the desired cure. We hope for later news in our next report.
Of Harry Clark, of whom we all would like to know more, we learn through our widely scattered agents that he and his wife Martha are at home in North Weare, N.H., and in good spirits. This is good news, especially with the Antarctic type of weather prevailing, even in spring, and we hope they will be able to dig out before fall.
At our request Pete Adams has written from his home in Pasadena, Calif., about his family, giving the set-up as of now. Like Pete, who moved from the most eastern states to the most western, so his wife Adeline came from Illinois to become a graduate of Pomona College in California (closely connected with Dartmouth in many ways) and liked it so well that she stayed on THE COAST (as I used to hear it called in Iowa).
These two have sons, Edmund, the older, and John, both of whom are graduates of Princeton and both of whom had their college careers interrupted by military service. Edmund served as navigator in the Air Force in Italy, and learned in his training, says Pete, to know more stars than did his father who has studied them for his lifetime - so does the younger generation outstrip even a '98 father. John served in the Aleutian Islands - the farthest west possible, so to speak. Both sons are married and live in Pasadena to the delight of their parents. The older is in the investment business, dealing doubtless with astronomical figures already, and has two young daughters, while John and his wife are both architects for buildings and for landscapes respectively, a nice bit of team work. So Pete and Adeline are lucky - all the family living in the same city, and, if the parents can ever save anything, one son can multiply the amount while the other divides it up again. There is much, that I wish space allowed, to quote from Pete's letter, such as his analysis of the life at Dartmouth today and in the late Nineties. Says he, "So on the whole I am glad I went to Dartmouth when I did," and, speaking of the winters in Hanover, "It is good for one to be practically alone, now and then, in life." Your Secretary agrees heartily with this.
Recent word from Fred Bennis' sister Ida finds her, after a winter of illness spent in Berkeley, Calif., able to go to Santa Barbara, a favored spot, near her brother Karl and other good friends. She is hoping to come east this summer to go back to the old home in Sullivan, Maine. May she be able to stop off in Hanover on the way and so put us up to date as to her further plans.
There is to be shortly (this is written the very first of April) a gathering in St. Petersburg of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Florida West Coast, at which I hope to meet the other three '98 men of this region again among the alumni who will gather for a luncheon and a talk by Dean McDonald of the College.
There has recently been a gathering also, much anticipated by me, of these same '98 men, Denis Crowley, Archie Kendall, MelvinSmith at my house, with the wives of the first three, Warren and Helen Kendall '99, Frederick Chase '05 and my sister Laura, whose husband was Bob Scales '01. Following this opportunity to catch up a bit with the news, that is enjoyed at all such Dartmouth meetings, we had our photographs taken, all male and mixed, with the result that, if we expect to employ the writer again as photographer, we should meet at midday and not with the setting sun, - alas! However, it is no heavy loss for we look the same as of yore, only more so - to the rest of you.
At a party given Joseph Gannon '99 (center) by The New York Times staff upon his retirement,he is shown chatting with Charles Merz, editor-in-chief (1) and Turner Catledge, managingeditor. Mr. Gannon joined The Times as an executive in the business department in 1927.
Secretary and Treasurer 39 College St., Hanover, N.H.
Class Agent, Gilmour, Rothery & Co. 40 Broad St., Boston 2, Mass.
