CLASS OF 1905

Charles Jenkins Kelley was born in Harwichport, Mass., January 7, 1880. He prepared for college at the Harwich High School. During his college course his keen wit and humor made him a great favorite with the members of his class. He had marked ability in writing English. He was one of the characters of the class, and was the man who inaugurated the St. Patrick's Day "peerade", from which the class 05 derived a great deal of amusement, as well as its reunion costume.

"Capt." Kelley, as he was affectionately called, went to Porto Rico and became a supervisor of schools. On November 4, 1918 he left his headquarters to visit his rural schools, and while attempting to cross on horseback the Toa Vaca river he was washed away and drowned. His body was recovered a few days later at Guayabal Lake. Sykes, a Dartmouth '01 man, writes from San Juan as follows: "He was loved by one who knew him. I believe he never did a mean thing in his life. More than two thousand persons attended his funeral. The epitaph on the tomb of Eleazar Wheelock could be chiseled on that of 'Capt.' Kelley with propriety: 'He lived to bring light into dark places'."

His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar D. Kelley, are now living at Tampa, Fla. His widow, Catherine A. L. Kelley, is at present teaching in Juan Diaz, Porto Rico. She hopes to send her two sons to Dartmouth.

It has just been learned that "Capt" Kelley entered the Third Officers Training Camp at Las Casas, San Juan, Porto Rico, June 20, 1918, and was assigned to A Company of that organization. He was handicapped by poor health, and from the beginning found the training too strenuous for him. However, he pluckily stuck it out until October, when he realized that his health demanded that he resign. Men of his company say that his grit was wonderful, and that with his well known brand of humor he did much to keep his fellow candidates amused.

Walter Longworth Williams died of pulmonary tuberculosis and diabetes at Asheville, N. C., January 14, 1919. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 5, 1884, his parents, John A. and Emma M. Williams, still living in that city. He fitted for college at the Erasmus School.

After leaving college he was for a number of years in the counting and sales department of the Diamond Match Company in New York City. His health failed about four years ago, and he has been at Asheville since that time.

November 17, 1914, he was married to Frances Marguerite Miller of Brooklyn, who survives him.