1903
Possibly the Holiday Season or maybe it was the extra wintery weather pretty much the whole country over, - but for some reason our staff of usually faithful news gatherers has fallen down for this month. True, our old reliable Pacific Coast news representative Bill MacLemian has mailed in two very lovely picture post cards of Carmel Beach and a spot on Coast Highway #1. We have visited the locale of both these pictures. Highway 1, especially from Monterey pretty much all the way to Santa Monica, is well worth any one's driving.
Kenie writes that he and Charlotte were leaving in January for Florida and then to Arizona. He told of a visit with Tute Worthen's brother Jim. Brother Jim said Tute had written he was coming East this early summer - we hope he will make the 60th reunion which latest information has it will be held June 14-16. Dick Brown has written about the reunion. I will not be stealing his thunder because as Chairman of the Reunion Committee he probably will have mailed before this reaches you a preliminary letter about the reunion. We hope that with his letter and the mention from time to time in these class news columns all of which will be finalized in a further letter probably late in April covering living quarters, program of what is doing etc., all of us should have ample time to make our plans for attending and notify the Committee, as outlined in the final letter. In this connection let me make it clear that it is the hope of the committee that all those who entered with the Class in September, 1899, or thereafter, whether they graduated or not are invited, urged, and earnestly desired to join in this our last official reunion. This invitation and desire also goes out and applies to the widows of departed members of the Class.
Dick also told of his battle with the gout but in a second letter seemed to be getting the better of his enemy and was able to get downtown and back on the job at the splendid undertaking he has assumed in his retirement of carrying on, as a volunteer, the management of The Home for Aged People in his town. It's a big and mighty well worth while job.
A short note from Pray Wadham reports that although by reason of the change-over following Harold Hess's sad death in October, the billing for class dues was somewhat delayed, nevertheless the response has been very satisfactory. At last report not more than a half dozen had not yet come across.
To get back to the reunion I wonder how many of you have recently been to Hanover — if not within three or four years or even a shorter period, your eyes will pop out at the many and great changes that have or almost have come to fruition. You owe it to yourself not to miss these beautiful and enduring evidences of the real progress that Dartmouth is continuing to make.
The paper was in the typewriter and a rough draft of notes ready to be made a bit more legible. This time of year and with the weather what it is, I like to try to keep a bit ahead of MAGAZINE deadlines. While at lunch, came a nice fat news letter from Pray Wadham - lots of class news, most of which I will hold for April. One story though gives a different viewpoint of the building program which made such an impression on me. It is only fair to give someone else's reaction (not Pray's) so here is the story he sent in. Two Ivy College grads, one a Dartmouth man, shared the same office. One was glancing through the morning paper and making occasional comment to his Dartmouth buddy. One comment was to the effect that a columnist wrote "the $17,000,000 U.S. pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair will look like an ultra modern egg hatchery." "Cripes," said the Dartmouth man, "makes me feel better; ours cost only $8,000,000." So you see this is one more important reason for you to come up to Hanover in June and decide for yourself which is right. Your Secretary still is all for the new building program. More in April.
Secretary, 13 Vermont Ave. Binghamton, N. Y.
Treasurer, 1822 Willow Rd., Cedar" Village Camp Hill, Pa.
