CLASS OF 1878

Charles Herman Dodd died at his home in West Roxbury, Mass., October 27. The end came suddenly and painlessly while he was about his usual pursuits.

Mr. Dodd was born in Worcester, Mass., September 27, 1855, and was the son of Joseph H. and Martha E. Dodd. He prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at Worcester Free Institute, now Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

He left college during his junior year to enter employment as draftsman, and followed the calling of draftsman and engineer consistently and successfully, being at the time of his death and for many years past assistant engineer of the Department of Public Works of the city of Boston. As mechanical engineer of the Sewer Department he designed several of the pumping stations of Boston and of Lynn. He was also a successful inventor, and patents upon several of his inventions have proved remunerative.

Mr. Dodd was a member of the Boston Society of Engineers, of the Savin Hill Yacht Club, and of the Dartmouth Club of Boston. As these last two memberships suggest, he was always a lover of water sports and always a loyal son of Dartmouth. He had tried his hand successfully at designing yachts. He was fond of nature and of outdoor life in many forms; was in the habit of taking long walks, and liked to persuade an old friend to accompany him. Dr. Gerould reports a recent tramp with him.

Because he was captain and stroke of the crew in one of the vain attempts to revive rowing as a Dartmouth sport, he was known in college days and still is fondly known among the Dartmouth men of that day as "Skipper Dodd." Many will now say, "Bon voyage, Skipper."

He with two others of the class attended the funeral of Walter L. Brown only a little earlier than his own. Huntington Smith and Gerould were present at his funeral.

Mr. Dodd was married in 1900 to Miss Fannie L. Cox of Denver, Colo., who survives him, and who has accompanied him at reunions of the class.