Class of 1903
Maurice Avery reports most pleasurable contacts with Andrew Jackson and Andy Perham in Washington. "Mouse" says, "Itmakes things much nicer for me to haveboth of the old fellows here." Imagine Andrew Jackson as being old! I might suggest for the sake of variety of age, Mouse, that you ring up Charlie Webb, secretary to one of Vermont's senators, and I assure you that he'll liven the company.
Charlie Webb in a recent letter cites the fact that he has been in Washington in a secretarial capacity for twenty-four years. Fourteen years were spent on the Senate side, eight on the House side, and for the past two years back on the Senate side with Senator Warren R. Austin of Vermont. But three senators out of a membership of ninety-six are now in the Senate who were there when he first went to view the legislative mill from the sidelines.
H. N. Bates, "Bucky," that sire of halfmilers, tells me that his son, Harold, "Bucky" '25, is a teacher of mathematics in the Brookline High School and that it won't be long before "Bucky" III will be taught mathematics by "Bucky" II with a side line of track racing.
Roy Bergengren very kindly forwarded me a copy of his most recent literary work at Christmas season. It is titled "Cumet." It is a fantasy, having to do with Credit Union mass European tours. It was the product of careful thought while on his "way to Europe just after reunion last June, 't carries the idea of the plan for mass touring of Europe by Americans in the aim for universal peace. A bit of a change from Mr. Ford's idea of some years back, but then there is no telling what a class reunion will do to a fellow. Couldn't we adopt a similar plan in getting the class back for reunion in 1938, Bergie?
Harold Bullard is recorded as joining the sales force of D. H. Grandin Milling Company of Jamestown, N. Y. He still resides in Alfred, Me.
Manchester Union, Dec. 19, 1933.
"HANOVER. The feature performanceof the evening was the presentation of'Little People,' a one-act play written byHarold J. Kennedy '35 of Holyoke, Mass.,which won first prize in the undergraduateplay contest sponsored by the DartmouthPlayers in connection with the Experimental Theatre. Harold is the son of JohnKennedy, 1903."
Those of us who attended the reunion in June remember well the grandson of F. J. Hall, David Proper. David's father, Prayle B. Proper of Wakefield, Mass., died of pneumonia on December 16, 1933, leaving his widow, Mrs. Florence Proper, and three children, David, Stanton, and Richard. At the time of his father's death David also was ill with pneumonia. We extend our sincere sympathy to Mrs. Proper and her boys in their bereavement.
On December 30, 1933, the corner stone of the St. John's Episcopal church of Arlington, Mass., was laid at exercises attended by the bishop of the Massachusetts diocese. Rev. Charles Taber Hall, rector of the church, was particularly congratulated by the bishop because of his untiring efforts and success in the parish. Congratulations, Charlie, and may the new year bring you still greater opportunities.
Bob Davis over in France recently wrote a most interesting and informative letter to "Meat" Hanlon. He told of business conditions in that country, where only 54% of what one earns goes to the government in one form of tax or another. Always original in expression, Bob says, "Everylittle while I get all ready to come homefor a good long visit and then somethingbreaks loose and I have to stay and watchit My sort of business here for thepast ten years has been like a baby withcroup—you are afraid to leave it or itwill pass out." Bob reports his family as well and active, a wife and three little girls aged 12, 9, and 7, and a boy, Corwith, measuring six feet and three inches, a senior at Yale. (If any of you fellows get down to New Haven during the year, hunt him out.)
Speaking of diversifying one's efforts in life, Bob leads the class. Besides being a farmer, a grape grower, wine producer, and merchant, he is chief editorial writer of the New York Herald (European edition of the New York Herald Tribune), manager of the American Hospital at Paris, director of the American Library in Paris, correspondent with government missions and reporter of conferences at Geneva and elsewhere. He has been the author of several volumes of social and economic studies, and of "Comments upon European Issues." Bob is due for the 1938 reunion. All those in favor just write him to that effect. His address, "The American Library in Paris, Rue de Paris, France."
Secretary, 198 Humphrey St., Marblehead, Mass.
