1904

About the time you are reading these few scattered notes, some of the boys of 1904 will be arriving in Hanover for our fifty-seventh reunion; it is a long time since June 29, 1904 — when we left the campus.

We have experienced two World Wars, the worst depression this country ever passed through and today face a world situation, the outcome of which no one dares predict.

Getting together at a Class reunion will be a refreshing change: We shall drop business and world problems and your Secretary will be asked how is Joe or Bill or Jimmy.

We graduated one hundred and twenty four men - Eighty four have passed on. Not counted were many men who during our four years were members of the Class. The handful of men who gather together in June will want to know about all of them too.

As we chat together, so many of our classmates will be recalled; some careers were cut short by death, many have lived a full life with credit to themselves, their college and their community. The memory of all classmates we cherish. Perhaps Beck may be able to persuade some of the Boys present to join him on Saturday Eve June 10 with a visit, at midnight, by the Dartmouth clock to the tomb of Eleazar Wheelock. He will call the roll, drink a toast to Dartmouth and the Class of 1904. Wherever you may be join us in this traditional custom which we have carried on for fifty years.

Squid writes we are coming along fine with the alumni fund. June 30 is the deadline - Let's all help him make our quota.

At this writing our Class President, CarlWoods, is hospitalized at Philips House, Boston, Mass. Send him a line. No classmate is held in deeper affection than Carl. We are all rooting for you - Old Timer!!

Robbie and Hope spent a most enjoyable month, from March 7, to mid April, at the Royal Park Inn at Vero Beach, Fla. Now home. We shall be seeing him at the reunion.

Mrs. John Fletcher sends her deep appreciation for the many fine expressions of sympathy she received from the Class, upon the death of John - He was one of the stalwarts of the class, we all loved him and shall miss him.

Nice note from Bull Turner - sorry he can't be with us in June — Sends his best regards to the Class.

Herbie Andrews sends regrets. Can't make it in June. He is not too well. How can anybody get sick in Maine?

Charlie Tubbs sent the Secretary a most interesting story recently of an old church which was founded in Wheelock, Okla. 120 years ago called the "Old Rock Church" by the Reverend Alfred Wright. After the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, when the Choctaws moved from Mississippi to the Indian Territory, Wright followed them. He built this church naming it Wheelock Mission after Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College. The church serves the community of WTheelock and the Wheelock Academy for Indian girls.

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Sanborn have recently returned to their home in St. Paul, after a two months' trip to Portugal. Bruce just called the Secretary in Lenox where he spent the weekend opening their summer home. It is fine to have a class mate as a near neighbor.

Don't forget: This is your column. Your Secretary needs your help to make it interesting and informative. Keep your Secretary up to date. He is happy to pass the news on to all of you; Cheerio!

Secretary, 28 Stockbridge Rd., Lenox, Mass.

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