Class of 1903
The most important event of the. past month has been the receipt from your class secretary, C. ].. Luce of Milford, N. H. of a "Class Directory.";
E. L. Brown (. not Elaine Brown—this pair, by the way, are putting in'part of February, at Lebanon, N. H.,) says: "Bulletin fine. Directory excellent." I think this expresses it. Brutus may have a good stenographer now, but I think he and maybe Edith must have, or someone must have, spent quite a lot of painstaking, intelligent care on the lists. He meant to send one of these to the secretary of each alumni association as well as to the class. If you did not get yours write in for one,
Incidentally "Pa" put in a card addressed to me .with a questionnaire of a. kind on it; I was willing to receive these and will send them along to him, but have learned a lot from the ones returned, I couldn't have believed that a little free postage would bring me so many constructive criticisms of my work, to say nothing of anything else. At any rate, from now on, as seems to be the consensus of opinion, I will try to "modify my material," "not be so. personal in my treatment of it." And of course my methods pursued will be much more orderly. Watch this number and send some commendation.
Although at that Ernest: Groves says your work is no good until it gets criticized. However, to make a start, we will print the following about him: "Professor Ernest R. Groves of the Boston College of Liberal Arts has been appointed to the Columbia University summer session faculty for the summer of 1925, and will present two courses there, entitled 'Soeial and Economical Problems of the Family' and 'Research Course in Modern Family Life,' "
A. K. Smith (this is the husband of that Gloucester woman who is prominent in all the activities of the "Women's League of Voters") is now with Stephen-Adams-Cyr Company, whose card calls for "machinery and supplies for dairy, creamery, and ice cream plants." Their location is at 142-144 Cambridge St., Charlestown, Mass.,. although. I. am told that "Fat" will go most anywhere, especially for "pasteurization ' outfits. These seem to be his hobby. He of course .has to commute, and at least some of the time during the week can be found at the "New American House." Good luck to him. As I understand it, he was with these people , before, A pedlar in those days. At any rate, cross him off your list as one of the. "class loafers" to be put to work and a, job found for him.
I just now had a letter from Bob Davis, which I took into the Boston alumni banquet. It was read by some sixteen or eighteen there of the class with great interest, and I meant to.print it in this issue, but shall not. I feel kind of ashamed of this. Have been holding out a letter received in the fall to print . it when it was timely. He says in it that he will be at Jerry's party, and that ..he. will have a cottage on the Cape for the summer, along with his brilliant young brother Ted Davis '13, who writes those stories in the Saturday Evening Post, and the other literati who have a colony down there. And now T am deprived' of this one. Well, it is all in a good cause, as the letter from our beloved class secretary which I print next will show. Arid this letter explains a lot of other things too. From anything you fellows know or from the 1925 Class Bulletin you would never guess it. Just the items of enlargement of the class family are enough to justify its publication.
Well, here is the letter anyway, and I hope Bob gets the album: His hen house has been to the Pacific Coast; time it went home for whitewashing..
"Will you kindly send me at once Bob Davis' letter to you? I will copy it, and return it at once. I wish to mail one of the albums to. him immediately.
"Haugan has sent me a questionnaire reading as "follows: Home, 2608 Lake View Ave. Business, 135 West Washington St. President State Bank of- Chicago. Wife, Blanche E. Haugan. . ChikV Henry A Haugan, Jr.. born May IS, "Ford has sent in a questionnaire reading as follows: iS Home, 126 Woodland Ave., Rutherford, N. J. Buisness, Leiber-Ford Company, Atlaintic Highlands,. N. J. , Occupation, Theatrical. Firm, Leiber-Ford Company, Inc. Wife, Helen Ford. "I have have received the following information about Sherman Smith: Home and husinejss, Edson, Alberta,. Canada., Occupation, assistant superintendent of the Canadian National Railways. Wile, Elizabeth Smith. Children, Betty, about 7 years: Frances. He has lived there since 1918. He is . frequently away from home in connection with his duties. He is a Free Mason.
"Horace Kidger says he had a daughter born on January 1 last Please telephone him for the full name. I think it is Barbara Chase Kidger."
This last item calls for letters of congratulation, so get busy. May be a little bit late for flowers, but boxes of candy will be all right. "Pa" seems to be a little bit doubtful about the fact. He says Horace "says so." Well, I saw Marion in front of the St. James Theatre the night of the "03 Women's Party at the time of the Boston alumni dinner, and I have her word for it. I believe it. May "Pa" never himself be likewise doubted ! To make assurance doubly sure, just as soon as I get the funds to buy a "twin" stroller, I will promise to "stroll" them down (it isn't very far) and see what Charlotte says. And see what she thinks of it.
Sorry I cannot close with a report of our recent Boston alumni dinner and the accompanying "'03 Hen Party" as personally conducted by the women of the class, written in my best, but "personal" may be "too personal style to be rightly understood and appreciated outside of our own circle." Anyway I don't want to "overdo it" in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and besides I get only so much space, and that is gone. Should think I might have some of the space some of our contemporary classes of the "Drinking Nineteen Hundreds" do not use.
Good night.
Editor, 516 Commonwealth Ave., Newton Center, Mass.
