1904

When your secretary arrived at his desk this morning, March 2, he found lying there the annual report of the Dictaphone Company with King Woodbridge's card pinned to the report as Chairman of the Board. One of his Lexington Avenue, New York, neighbors had recently sent the Secretary a clipping with a picture of King pinning a citation on one of his top salesmen for a grand job of placing one of the Dictaphone machines with the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York. Your secretary thinks that it is proper to review, for the class, some of King's many activities. On the business side of the ledger he has made his successes in selling, advertising and management. Associated as he has been with such well-known corporations as Loose Wiles Biscuit Company; President of Kelvinator Inc., predecessor sor to Studebaker Packard Company; Arbuckle Company as a partner in the sugar industry; Director of Jay Street Connecting Railroad and American Machine and Metals Inc.; and for years President and now Chairman of the Board of the Dictaphone Company He has been decorated by the French Government as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Five years ago some five million office secretaries of the industrial world conferred upon King the Bronze Medallion of Honor m recognition of his services to them. Quite a feller, this classmate of ours, and we are all mighty proud of King.

In this morning's mail too came a letter from Edgerly of Manchester, N.H. It carried a clipping with the picture of our classmate, Al Terrien of Nashua, N.H., with the headline Nashua's "Attorney Terrien Alert and Busy at Eighty." To understand how this young fellow does it you have to remember ' Al was on the track team and for practice used to run over the roads with Beck to Wilder and back. That gave Al heart, lungs and legs, all of which are important and necessary to a lawyer. Congratulations old timer, may you always stay on the right side of the Law.

Edge wrote me he plans to spend a few weeks in Daytona, Fla. The Johnsons hope to have the pleasure of seeing them at Vero Beach. They will take you out to the ball" game, Edge, when you come down.

Card from the Fletchers who were cruising in the West Indies and met up with Carland Marion Woods and Tom and Ruth Streeter.

One of the richest rewards of being Dartmouth men is the privilege we all have of sharing in the great fellowship of all Dartmouth men irrespective of class affiliations. Recently your secretary received a copy of "The Diddings" of the class of 1909, edited by that incomparable editor Jack Childs, Perhaps many in the class received a copy too. It carried a wonderful memorial of our Sid Rollins and one on Ben Knox of the Class of 1908. As you would know Sid had a wide acquaintance with Dartmouth men of all classes and wherever Sid went he shared, with all that fine fellowship - which won for him the deepest regards and respect, a true Dartmouth man.

Jack's expression of Ben Knox "1908": "One of Dartmouth's noblemen" was as fine a tribute as could possibly be paid to a wonderful gentleman. It was the Secretary's privilege to meet and know the "General" as he was affectionately called by his classmates. We met each winter at Vero Beach, a friendship formed which was cherished and will be sadly missed. "1904" salutes his memory. Thanks, Jack, for your class letter and your tributes to our beloved Sid and to the General.

Secretary, 100 North St., Pittsfield, Mass.

Class Agent, 9 Foxcroft Rd., Winchester, Mass.