CLASS OF 1861

August 5, the 89th birthday of James P. Gilman of Rock Rapids, lowa, was celebrated by a family dinner arranged by his daughter, Mrs. S. B. Dack. The table was resplendent with the Dartmouth colors. Each place card was shaped to represent the map of lowa, with a tiny gold lion in the upper left corner to mark Lyon county. The favors were in dark green. A Dartmouth pennant marked Mr. Gilman's chair at the table, and sentiment was expressed in the centerpiece, which was an engineer's transit that Mr. Gilman has used for nearly fifty years of his unusually active life, and with which he has traveled thousands of miles over the West and South in his capacity as a civil engineer, both as a pioneer railroad builder and later as county surveyor of Lyon county, almost continuously from 1873 to 1906. At the close of the dinner birthday greetings were read from two of Mr. Gilman's college classmates, Mr. E. D. Redington of Chicago and Mr. H. W. Page of Northfield, Minn. After his graduation, Mr. Gilman read law, and practiced for a short time, but soon turned to engineering, and did active work in that profession until about ten years ago. For the past quarter of a century he has also farmed an eighty acre tract two miles west of the city of Rock Rapids, and is still active, and did the "stacking" on the place this year.

Secretary, Major Edward D. Redington, 1905 Harris Trust Building, Chicago