1925

Secretary, 58 Winfield St., Needham, Mass.

Treasurer. R.D., Old Mill Rd., Chester, N. J.

Bequest Chairman,

Since it is, as they say, a small world, it should have been no surprise—but it was, and a very pleasant one, too - to find other 25'ers Europe-bound on the same ship, namely Alice and Paul Pearson, which made the voyage very pleasant indeed, not to mention dinner and an evening together in London. Paul is head of the history department in Boston Latin School. Paul Hexter was in the English capital, too, but got there only about 24 hours before your scribe had to leave, and because of an already over-crowded schedule it was impossible to arrange a meeting. It was hard to leave for home thinking of the lucky guy who had just arrived to begin his holiday. But it was a grand trip, of which there will be more to say, perhaps, in the Roundup.

Early in the summer, The New York Times' Meyer Berber devoted one of his "About New York" columns to "Bjorkman the Batmaker." This is our own Hank, who spends his leisure hours, nights and weekends, in a basement shop turning out custommade baseball bats "for boys in orphanages, on corrective farms, the Police Athletic League; for boys who get into the newspapers through some misfortune." Each is made to measure for its owner, according to his age, weight, and height, meticulously hand-finished, and with his name burned into the end. There are thousands in use, from Saskatchewan to Florida, for he turns out as many as 3000 a year, each one a tribute to the kind of man who believes in using himself up for the benefit of others.

Maida Slater, Drenny's widow, has set up an annual award in his memory at Evanston (Ill.), Township High School. The recipients' names are engraved on a plaque bearing the Dartmouth seal, which remains in the school. The individual prize, a leather-bound dictionary, was won this year by James Schroeder, a junior, brother of Charles Schroeder '57. Washington University, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Williams make similar awards at the same school, but this is the only one of a memorial character underwritten by an individual instead of the local alumni association.

Ham Thayer has been elected to a fouryear term as alumni-trustee of Tabor Academy. His son William, who graduated from the school last year, is now at Miami University. Ham has been a member of the Hopedale, Mass., School Committee for 23 years, for 12 of which he has served as Chairman; his devotion to the cause of education is further demonstrated by his service as Chairman of our own Faculty Fund, in the development of which he has played a leading part. . . . Steve Chase, formerly production manager, has been promoted to the position of Assistant General Manager of Champion Paper and Fibre Company's Pasadena plant. . . . Roland Whitney has been made president of the Keene, N. H., Cooperative Bank. He is President of Whitney Bros. Toy Co Brad Kingman has moved from his post of Vicepresident and Treasurer of the Worcester County Institution for Savings to become Executive vice-president of the Portsmouth, N. H., Trust Co. It means returning to the home near Portsmouth which has been in the Kingman family for generations. . . . Also joining the back to New Hampshire movement will be Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Foster who have bought a house in Hanover; but whether this means Andy's retirement from the foreign service or is a preliminary thereto has not yet been learned.

Space is curtailed this month, to allow full coverage of the Special Convocation. Ever since it was announced, some months ago, your Secretary had been eagerly planning to be present: then, almost at the last minute, the relentless call of duty intervened. This is the type of vigorous, forward-looking educational activity by which a great institution of learning may spread its influence far beyond the relatively small group which is privileged to study within its halls. Here indeed the College plays its part as a market place for the exchange of ideas. Mankind cries out for enlightenment. It is good to know that Dartmouth is prepared to do what it can to meet that call.