Class of 1898
Captain John Gilman has been assigned to a $5,000,000 building project at West Point, the seat of the United States Military Academy. The construction work includes the erection of some monumental buildings. Ninety-eight congratulates John on this well merited appointment.
Harry Clark is engaged in the work of his profession in North Carolina, the home state of Mrs. Clark.
Doc Nolan came into his native state last month for a little visit to his home town of Middleboro. Doc is connected with the administration of public works as a director in New York state.
It is always of interest to know what is happening to the children and grandchildren of classmates. Frederick Mather Lord, a senior at Dartmouth and a son of our classmate Fred Lord, has just won Phi Beta Kappa rank. "Like father, like son" holds true here. Viola Seelman Odquist is busy looking after her home at Hastings-on-the- Hudson, where her husband is sales promotion director of the American Can Company. She has a two-year-old daughter. The other daughter, Constance, is a senior at New Jersey College for Women. Ted Leggett has three daughters, Marjorie, Marion, and Yvonne. Marjorie is now Mrs. John Avery Nathans Jr., and lives in White Plains. Her husband is in the banking profession. Marion, after two years at Sweet Briar College, is taking a course at the Katherine Gibbs School in New York City. Yvonne is a freshman at Sweet Briar and is enjoying college life to the full. Charles Bartlett, son of our classmate Joe, is now a member of his father's law firm and has been for the past two years associate United States district attorney. He has two sons, Joseph W. Bartlett and Samuel Bartlett. Charles Littlefield has three children. The oldest son is a well-known surgeon on the staff of the Rhode Island Hospital. He is married and has one daughter. The second son is following in his father's footsteps and is a lawyer. He, too, is married and has a son. The baby of the household is now a junior at the Connecticut College for Women and is enjoying thoroughly her college course. Fred Pope's two daughters are both happily married. Dorothy Pope married C. F. Butler, who is athletic coach of a large Chicago suburban high school. The Chicago Alumni Association recently awarded the Chicago Alumni Scholarship to Robert McLeod, now a promising freshman athlete at Dartmouth, who was a product of Mr. Butler's coaching. The second daughter, Ilda, lives in Hinsdale, Ill., not far from her parents. She has a son, George C. Giles Jr., Dartmouth 1955. Her husband, George C. Giles, is with the Phoenix Hermetic Company, a business owned by his family. Fred and his wife and his son-in-law Mr. C. F. Butler and wife with their daughter Nancy Lee Butler spent three happy weeks at Pope's old home at Sandwich, Mass., this summer. Charles Carr and wife have two adopted children. The boy is now in his last year in law school and the girl is married to a Massachusetts man, a college graduate, and has a very happy home. What a worthy bit of work for our classmate and wife to do!
Fletcher Harper Swift has been troubled with an attack of arthritis, but is pluckily keeping up his university courses.
The Secretary desires to make this comment in omitting this year the '98 round-up before the Dartmouth-Harvard game. He talked it over with some of the Boston members of the class, and they thought it might be well to have a different kind of round-up this year. Denis Crowley, however, from the first was one hundred per cent in favor of the usual round-up of the class at the University Club. The Secretary takes entire responsibility for the change in plans.
Secretary, 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.
