1907's Fifty-fifth Reunion

1907 celebrated its 55th reunion on the campus of Dartmouth College during the Commencement of the one hundred and ninety-third year. The reunion was a great success. Thirty classmates, sixteen wives, three sons, one daughter, a grandson, a brother, and friends.

Class headquarters were at Russell Sage dormitory where many of our classmates were assigned rooms. On Friday afternoon visiting hours and social gatherings took place at the tent.

The class dinner was enjoyed Friday night at Thayer Hall where your class pres- ident, James O'Neill, presided and Prof. Donald Bartlett '24 of the department of Biography addressed the class. During the dinner President Dickey dropped in and welcomed us back to Hanover. He spoke highly of the class of 1907 and of several members, namely Judge McLane, GeorgeHoward, and others. At the head table were also Mrs. Francis Neef, Mrs. Fannie Hazen Ames, Edith O'Neill, Samuel Bartlett, Ethel Grebenstein and your secretary.

After the dinner many of us went to the President's reception and then to hear the college glee club at Webster Hall, or back to the tent where we enjoyed the Jack Childs' Music Makers until midnight. Others took in the Dartmouth movies at Darthmouth. Hall or the senior dance at College Hall. The weather was perfect.

On Saturday morning at 10 a.m. the class picture was taken at Webster Hall steps after which the class meeting was held in the 1902 Room of Baker Library, President James O'Neill called the meeting to order. Philip Chase nominated the following for class officers: President, O'Neill; Treasurer, Niles; Class Agent, Kenyon; Secretary, Grebenstein. All were elected unanimously after which the meeting was adjourned.

The class Memorial Service with JamesO'Neill presiding was held at which William Smart read the names of the 43 members of 1907 who have died since our last formal reunion in June of 1957. This was followed by a period of silent prayer by all those present.

In the afternoon after lunch a number of classmates watched the crew races on the Connecticut River and later in the afternoon went on the conducted tour of the new buildings and the Hopkins Center. At 6 p.m. we all enjoyed the Commencement dinner and speakers at the gymnasium.

During the evening many of us enjoyed the Dartmouth Players' show, "Li'l Abner," while others reminisced at the tent until midnight. "Rocky" Hazen's recording of Harry McDevitt's singing at our 1957 reunion the following songs: "We Came to See the College" and "Oh, What a Beautiful Evening" were played and enjoyed by all.

Sunday was a great day. A farewell breakfast was served at Thayer Hall, and a few of us assembled outside Wilson Museum along with 1902 and 1912 and Marshall Thaddeus Seymour at 10:30 a.m. We marched through the double line of over 600 men of the graduating class of 1962 across the campus to the lawn of Baker to enjoy the Dartmouth College 193 rd Commencement and Baccalaureate exercises which included the sight of Astronaut Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., being presented the honorary degree of Master of Arts by Dean Arthur Jensen. It was a memorable occasion and will long be remembered. Our classmates in the line of march were Ashley,Crocker, Grebenstein, Hiestand, Kenyon,Lyons and Niles.

Attendance at the 55th reunion of 1907:

William and Harriet Ahern, Edward Ashley, Edward and Agnes Barker, Samuel Bartlett and daughter, Caroline Case and grandson Case, Allan Brown, Philip and Theora Chase, John Crocker, Arthur and Marguerite Farrington, George and Ethel Grebenstein, John Hammond, Dwight Hiestand, Henry Hill and son, Wayne '4l, George and Mildred Jamison, Robert and Lura Kenyon, William Kimball and son, William Jr., Albert Kitching and brother Robert, Henry and Lucy Lane, George and Fern Liscomb, Robert Lyon, Harold and Luna Niles, Clifford Norris and son Paul, James and Edith O'Neill, Curtis and Ruth Plummer, William and Edith Sanborn, William Smart, Leon Sprague, William and Jane Walker, Don Williams, Arthur and Elizabeth Winslow, and Thacher and Mary Worthen. Roger and Jane Brown 'O5 and Robert Bartoo.

"Bruno" Kimball came from the greatest distance, Ogden Canyon, Ogden, Utah.

I wish to thank chairman Sam Bartlett and the members of the reunion committee for the swell organization job they did in making this one of the best reunions yet, and the College for its part.

Three members of the class of 1897 attended their 65th reunion. Pictured at theAlumni Dinner were Carroll Morse of Boston, Albert Watson of Nashua, N. H., andJay D. Brown of Columbus, Ohio.

With headquarters in Woodstock, Vt., seventeen members of 1902 enjoyed their sixtieth reunion. Front row (l to r): Amos Fitzgerald, Frank Moore, George Dow, Moses Perkins, Frank Drake, Arthur Chivers, Julius Brown, Harold Parker. Back Row: Harold Plumer, Carroll Davis, Cyril Smith, Philip Thompson, Chester Studwell, Albert Dairymple, Hermon Farwell, Robert C.Clark and Charles Dudley.

1907 commemorated their 55th reunion at Commencement with thirty men present.

CLASS SECRETARY