CLASS OF 1903

Ralph Oliver Durrell died from heart failure on a Los Angeles-Chicago train near Ogden, Utah, March 8.

The son of Oliver Heber and Sophia Gertrude (Eaton) Durrell, he was born in Cambridge, Mass., in September, 1878. He fitted for college at the Cambridge Latin School and at Phillips Exeter Academy, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1899.

At the end of freshman year he left college, and went into business with his father's company, the Brown-Durrell Company of Boston. For several years he was the managing buyer for the house. About four years ago he removed to Los Angeles, Cal., on account of poor health, and became associated with the Robinson Company, a large dry goods house. At the time of his death he was on his way East for a visit. For about nine years he was a member of the First Corps of Cadets, and leaves a host of friends in New England.

He leaves a wife and three children, also his mother, who lives in Cambridge.