1897

The calendar brings up the seven to remind us that sixty years have come in the time-table of our class. These college memories are still vivid in many ways. We often speak of college spirit and this is not a definite thing, but something that seems to tie us in with the things we did together.

The bell at the start of college day - rush to Chapel - the green in spring - the early frost of fall with the red and gold of the foliage and then white of winter, long snowy winter - the cord wood for heating the classroom - professors with whiskers - the noise of horns after dark. These memories, with the close ties of our group of college chums, do not fade.

Twenty-two of our classmates are still mindful 'of the college and are glad each year to remember to give something to help the college carry on.

What did the college help us to make of ourselves? A list of those still active starts with Appleton who worked for railroads in New London, Concord, Troy, the automobile business in Rhode Island, and long years with the Naval Magazine at Hingham. He progressed from clerk and bookkeeping to advanced accounting. This specialty today has become very professional. Real accounting requires balance of mind. The college years gave him the foundation of balance.

Balch - a student of high rank - has worked far afield in building roads, dams, bridges and factories in North and South America. He even took time to participate as a soldier in all the wars he could find and is now retired as major. He has been, and still is, a great guy, a happy soldier of fortune.

Bolser - former top athlete on track was a long time teacher in chemistry. He gave much help in creating the Ivy League with its solid foundation in ethics in college athletics. He has had a chance to feel the pulse of the scientific movements leading into the atomic age.

J. D. Brown has stimulated the use of maps showing historic records of places to help schools teach history. He has done much to improve the value of maps, especially in New York State.

Drew worked on titles and ownership rights in a changing world of activities — a world moving rapidly from personal to corporation control of almost every activity.

Ham, surveyor, sanitary engineer and construction engineer, has worked on designs of buildings, bridges, dams and factories during the rapid advance of concrete. He turned aside from this kind of engineering work to guide the movement of building homes for working families. His building aimed at the three "D's" - desirability, durability and domesticity -in the homes provided for people needed in industry. This activity culminates in individual ownership of 1300 homes in nine villages; 776 of these in five villages are now owned as cooperatives. This form of property holding has now reached the goal, long aimed at, of establishing a liquid investment of ownership.

Henderson is the son of a soldier of the 600 who rode into the Valley of Death and also fought in our war between the states. His mother was from the Highlands and this certainly makes him a Scotchman, tartan pure. John has been a rancher in South Dakota, an orange grower in Florida and then turned to the cloth to become a minister. His perfect use of English and his sincerity of purpose has helped him carry on in an age unsettled by speedy acting and the power of the purse. His is an age when traditions are often set aside for the blazing of new trails marked with "$" signs.

Holt has a three-generation connection with the College - his father, himself and his son. "Cappi" is an artist in the collection of rare Japanese prints, flowers of southern swamps and pictures of old houses of merit. Recording these with expert use of color photography is certainly the mark of a connoisseur.

Johnson - Johnson has seen the advance in science and engineering rush on hurried wings towards the new atom future. Perhaps the study of Greek, which he majored in in college, may have dropped off a bit, but his fight to educate the younger generation has been long and vigorous. His study of the classics did not handicap him. The witch grass roots of politics were pulled up with no injury to the Greek roots of his studies of the classics. He has been a fighter for education.

Kelly, for a long time teacher of athletics in Texas and Indiana, took a degree in medicine. He has had a long time practice, yet with time enough to become a city official, a director and president of a bank, and a Presbyterian deacon and all this without having Phi Beta Kappa rank. Most of us missed this honor - four of the twenty-two living classmates received this at the end of their college years.

Morse, still an eligible bachelor, won the Grimes prize in college and election to Phi Beta Kappa. He had spent quite a long period of his early years in the manufacture of women's hats, but perhaps the saying of a well-known author, "Boston women inherit their hats," made "Sport" change from hats to bonds. (It is quite sure that Bostonians buy and sell bonds.) Perhaps bonds are the safest investment, although not as exciting as stocks. Perhaps bonds are like Boston women's hats and stocks are like the hats of New Yorkers.

Noyes - Frank has been a lawyer with successful years of practice. He has had time enough to lead in church activities in the Old South Church, and years of effective work in the Twentieth Century Club of which he was a long time president. This has given him the opportunity to lead in the influence of ethics in the old cultural city of Boston.

Pender - our youngest classmate — is a lawyer with varied experience having practiced in Boston, Hanover, N. H., Long Beach, Calif., and late years in the greater New York area. He has been active in management of Dartmouth athletics, especially while living in Hanover.

Rowe - the youngest of four brothers to graduate from Dartmouth - taught school in Vermont and Rhode Island for three years, then began his long career in the making of fine books with the Plimpton press. He has seen progress resulting from invention, skill and art working together.

Ryan - a small man with a wiry bundle of nerves — in our time played football with a big man team. I feel sure that Joe, more than any of us on the Aegis Board, directed the scope and quality of our class edition of the Junior year publication. He worked as a teacher for a short time and the long remaining years of his career he sold school supplies. He has had a chance to feel the pulse of the education of American youth.

Sibley - a lawyer who advanced from law clerk to judge - I think he should have been an author. His letters to me make my largest file from classmates and everyone of them is equal to an atomic bomb. How a small "boiler" can blow off so much steam is a wonder to me. I issue a challenge to him to "bust" out again — as he did in 1953 — on any activity excepting snappy college girls visiting fraternity parties and the lack of prayer in the United Nations; he has covered these subjects. All other activity should give him range enough. If he accepts this challenge, I will set a geiger counter for detection of new vibrations.

Erdix Smith - a student of Sir Isaac — is a classmate who has a one track mind - in sport. I spent more leisure with him than with any other classmate and I have always felt that Erdix has given much time to study the signs of the Zodiac, but in most detail to the sign Pisces. He has developed a fishing calendar.

Temple was a lawyer for a long time, also a judge and then mayor of his city. Two sons graduated from the College are also lawyers. I think we should have our two judges, Temple and Sibley, portrayed for us wearing judicial robes and, for good measure, powdered wigs.

Tent, long time retired, has been judged the best performer on skis in College before 1900. His skis were presented to the College and are now on exhibition at the museum. Our class started skiing at Dartmouth and Tent was our best performer. This activity has changed the college winters from "song by the fire" to "tracks in the snow." I wish some poet, like Hovey, would give us a song to epitomize the new feeling of an out doors winter of college life today as his "song by the fire" did the shut-in winters of the college of our time.

Tuttle, a long time hard worker for the college, especially in making us remember to pay up. I sometimes hold back a little on my annual chip to the alumni fund for the purpose of getting a letter from Hiram. I have always been proud of my part in changing his name to Hiram - his official name is Morton if you didn't know. A composite picture of the buildings that he has built would look like one of an important industrial city.

Ward had a fine space in the MAGAZINE lately when he was given the honor of "Physician of the Year" by the Medical Society of which he was one of the founders and long time president. The results of his long efforts have given his community pure milk and an inoculation to prevent diphtheria.

Watson was born two months after I was in the parsonage in Barrington, about a mile from my home. His life work in the Church has been long and kindly. We all think of him as the true example of a minister. I feel sure there is no doubt in his mind about the value of religion in this dollar minded age.

These twenty-two of our classmates carry on, but we are closing ranks as the years go by. I wish each one of you would write your class secretary pointing out interesting activities which have influenced you during the sixty years since college days. Recording our feelings is quite as important as telling our activities.

I recall in a chapel talk, Dr. Tucker speaking of effectiveness of a period, ended with this sentence "show me your man."

Secretary, Treasurer and BequestChairman, 114 State St., Bridgeport 3, Conn.

Class Agent, 862 Park Square Building Boston 16, Mass.