CLASS OF 1900

Dr. Clinton Joseph Rumrill died on the night of January 6 at the Randolph Sanatorium, Randolph, Vt., of abdominal ulcers, for which three operations had been performed.

Dr. Rumrill was born in Springfield, Vt., January 7, 1871, one of eight children of Edwin Joseph and Susie Cynthia (Simons) Rumrill. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy, entered Yale in 1892 and graduated as A.B. in 1896. In 1894 he was a member of a scientific expedition of Yale students to Greenland under Dr. Frederick A. Cook. On the return trip their steamer, the Miranda, was shipwrecked and sunk, the party finishing the voyage in a fishing schooner. In 1895-6 he passed fifteen months in Hayti as a surgeon's assistant.

After receiving his medical degree at Dartmouth, Dr. Rumrill opened an office at Randolph, and gradually won his way to a large practice. He was well equipped both in medicine and surgery, and deserved and obtained the confidence of his patients. He was a lover of nature, and expert hunter and fisherman, and versed in woodlore. He was socially attractive, and had a large circle of friends.

Dr. Rumrill was a member of the University Club of Randolph, and of the Washington County and Vermont State Medical Societies. He was on the staff of the Randolph Sanatorium, and lectured on anatomy and physiology to the nurses in training. Last summer he volunteered his services as a surgeon in the regular army, passed the physical examination and was commissioned first lieutenant, but was discharged because he had passed the age limit.

June 9, 1901, he was married to Marion 8., daughter of E. F. Emerson of Randolph, who survives him, with the only child, a daughter.