1899
The memorial to Tom Whittier is in this MAGAZINE. Here are some sidelights. He and Pete Winchester arrived in Hanover in 1895 together, but the latter had no room, so bunked that night with Tom and Tom's room mates, the Boston twins, on the top floor of Dartmouth Hall. Paul Osgood, who celebrates a birthday this month, remembers how Tom used to help him with the mandolin "in those careless years." Other than close attention to his engineering subjects Tom found diversion in his trombone; with it, in Ray Pearl's original Dartmouth '99 Band, he led the march of faculty and students escorting the Spanish War volunteers from the Campus to Norwich Station in junior spring. Tom seldom missed the annual Thayer Alumni gathering in New York. Of the '99 reunions in Hanover he missed only the first, second, and twentieth; in '59 he shepherded a troop of twelve Whittiers to the Sixtieth. What a merry hubbub when they arrived to register! Tom was genial but undemonstrative, though a Yankee up-bringing had given him an impish humor. On one of "Tim's Tours" there was a close golf round between Tom and Owen Hoban. Hobe promptly demanded payment of a "wager." In a grieved voice Tom asked, "Did somebody think there had been a wager?" Of this episode Hobe long afterwards wrote, "Back of that blond, placid, benign face there was Tom, with my $3.00 and his hand in his one-way pocket." The affection and humorous understanding between those two illustrates what Hobe once said: "The only friends we shall ever have of that kind, tinted with the glamour of college and youth."
Tom Whittier went just after Thanksgiving; Herb Rogers' wife went just before Christmas, one week before her eighty-third birthday. The deep sympathy of the Class goes to both families. Herbert and Laura were married June 15, 1904, and we all helped them celebrate their Golden Wedding at our Fifty-Fifth in Hanover. They were most companionable '99ers. K. andMay Beal with their boys and Pitt and Mabel Drew with their girls lived near them, and we all rated them among our warmest friends. During recent years Rockport was the Rogers' home, but last November Laura's failing sight and general health made a move to West Springfield near daughter Virginia advisable; there she died at the local hospital. She was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church in Newtonville, and services were held there on December 23, with burial in Belmont Cemetery. Besides Virginia, Mrs. Donald J. Noyes, is the younger daughter Barbara, Mrs. Philip A. Bachelder of Coosa Pines, Ala.
Last October 25 Joe Gannon, with his daughters Frances Danesi and Genevieve Read, visited Montie and Martha Fuller. Their visit to the delight of all enabled them to share on that very day the birthday of their hostess Martha.
Carrie (Mrs. William L.) Hutchinson of State College, Pa., had a serious but successful operation in the late fall, their daughter Sarah Glass reports. We're hoping for further good news.
Bill Kendall, son of Warren and HelenKendall, and president of Louisville and Nashville R.R., has merged his line with the Chicago and Eastern Illinois. And grandson Warren C. Kennedy, son of Roberta and Rolfe Mason Kennedy, was married December 26 in Charlotte, N. C., to Carolyn Janell Couch of that city, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Grayson of Shelby.
In November Tim Lynch returned to his winter golf headquarters at The Carolina, Pinehurst, N. C. If anyone hears the sound of a distant crash, it is probably just another broken record.
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