CLASS OF 1910

Henry Evans Gooding died suddenly in Hartford, Conn., March 12, 1919, after a few days' illness of pneumonia, following the influenza.

He was born at Yarmouth, Maine, December 21, 1887, the eldest son of John Milton and Grace (Jones) Gooding'. While very young he moved with his parents to Portland, Maine, in which city he received his early education and preparation for college, graduating from Portland High School in 1906.

In the nine years between his graduation and his death, his business interests were in the field of office furniture and filing equipment. For the first two years after leaving college he was in the employ of the Library Bureau at its Boston and Montreal offices. From the end of 1912 until April 1, 1914, he remained in Montreal, spending most of his time with the lithograph concern of Ralph and Clark, Ltd., of Toronto. On April 1, 1914, he went to Hartford, Conn., to become manager of the Flint-Bruce Company's office furniture department, which position he held at the time of his death.

On September 15, 1914, he was married to Mabel Frances Nash of Portland, Maine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Nash. Mr. and Mrs. Gooding had been friends from early childhood, and their married life was singularly happy. Mrs. Gooding was a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, class of 1911. She survives her husband, with one son, Robert Emery Gooding, born April 21, 1917. Besides his parents, Mr. Gooding also left one brother, Willard M. Gooding of Berlin, N. H., Dartmouth 1911.

Mr. Gooding was a true son of Dartmouth, and at the time of his death was vice-president of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford. Because of his happy, genial disposition, he easily made friends and held them, and his ambition, conscientious work, sincerity, and remarkable memory were rapidly bringing him unusual success in his business life. He was a great reader, being particularly interested in history and economics. He had a deep love of home, and children seemed to recognize in him a real friend. Optimistic, generous, a lover of human nature, his chief thought was always for others first, self last. Though young in years, his high character and clean-cut life make his death a distinct loss to his friends and his community.