CLASS OF 1899

The closing days of the year 1918 brought to the class of 1899 a great loss in the death of Earl Eastman, scholar, teacher, and leader toward the better things of life.

To Earl the end came suddenly. A brief illness of influenza developed into pneumonia. Possessed as he was of the spirit of industry, though feeling ill, he had spent a Saturday at his laboratory. A day or two later his illness became more serious, and the following Thursday, December 12, he passed away.

Our classmate was born in Danbury, N. H., June 23, 1878, and prepared for Dartmouth in the Franklin High School. He was one of the youngest men in the class, and throughout the college years a leader in scholarship. Interested in athletics and a member of class and varsity athletic teams, with a profound loyalty to the College and a deep interest in all its activities, he was more than all a scholar. Integrity of character and high intellectual ability won for him always the respect and admiration of the men of the class.

Entering upon his career as a teacher, Earl Eastman did valuable work in New Preston, Conn., and then in the Athol, Mass., High School. Called the next year across the continent, he taught physics and mathematics in the Harvard School in Los Angeles, Cal. Returning to an academy in East Greenwich, R. 1., he was soon appointed science teacher at Kingston, N. Y., and from that work he went in September, 1907, to Atlantic City, N. J., where in the high school his life work, all too brief, was so magnificently accomplished.

During eleven years in Atlantic City, Earl taught physics and chemistry and built up a strong science department, of which he was the head. Thorough and scholarly in his knowledge of the sciences, gifted in his power to instruct, and conscientiously devoted to his work, he was an inspiring teacher and leader. He was profoundly respected by his associates in school work and in civic enterprises, and enjoyed the confidence and affection of the young people of his classes throughout his years of service.

At the time of his death, Earl Eastman was president of the New Jersey Science Teachers' Association, an organization which he was largely instrumental in forming. He retained his interest in athletics, serving as coach of the high school baseball team and as a member of the board of managers of the High School Athletic Association.

He married in Athol, Mass., Dec. 9, 1903, Miss Lottie Olyer, who survives him with their two children, Dorothy Constance and Albert Lincoln.

A quiet, unobstrusive man, gifted with high intellectual qualities, courageous, sincere, and of indefatigable industry, our classmate was notably successful as a teacher. In the community he was interested in worthy civic enterprises and respected as a man and as a citizen. In his home, to which he was most tenderly devoted, he was the ideal father and husband. As a Dartmouth man and a member of '99, he was always loyal to the best in the life of the College and cherished the high ideals that make the men of Dartmouth strong in the spirit of service.

Herbert Coe Collar died in Buffalo, N. Y., March 14, of hemorrhage of the pancreas, after a brief illness.

The son of William Coe and Hannah Caroline (Averill) Collar, he was bora in Roxbury, Mass., June 30, 1875. His father, who died in 1916, was for fifty years connected with the Roxbury Latin School as master and headmaster. The son fitted for college at this school. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

For the first four years after graduation he was associated with the Youth's Companion, the American Book Company, and the Booklovers' Library, all in Boston. Then from 1903 to 1908 he taught modern languages at the Stone School, also in Boston. He was then principal of high schools at Charlton and Holden, Mass. While at Holden his health broke down, and he gave up teaching and was for a time in the insurance business in Worcester. He then took up library work, and in November, 1913, became chief cataloguer in the Grosvenor Library, Buffalo. He was successful in the technical work and in training assistants, and would have been lecturer next year at the University of Buffalo in library subjects. He was also in charge of the Buffalo Club Library.

June 29, 1901, he was married to Elizabeth Holbrook, who survives him, with their two daughters.