Deaths

(This is a listing of deaths of which word hasbeen received since the last issue. Full notices,which are usually written by the class secretaries,may appear in this issue or a later one.)

ALUMNI NOTES

CLASS PUBLICATIONS

The Alumni Editor acknowledges the receipt of the following : Thirteenth Report of the Class of 1906; 168 pages.

Eighteenth Report of Class of 1908; 112 pages. Twenty: Vol. 6, No. 2; 4 pages. The Smoker: Letter of the Class of 1921; broadside, 2 pages.

CLASS REUNIONS

Class of 1866

Because of unavoidable circumstances, the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of our graduation was divided into two parts. Three of the class returned to Hanover, and these entered into the festivities that mark. Commencement. These were Bishop Walter Sellew, Jamestown, N. Y.; Dr. James A. Spalding, Portland, Me., and Thomas P. Kinsley, Leßoy, N. Y.

On the afternoon of the 22d Spalding and Kinsley journeyed to Manchester, N. H., there to become guests of Nathan Parker Hunt. Later they were joined by Dr. George H. Pillsbury and wife of Lowell, 'Henry A. Kendall of Somerville, and Henry Whittemore and wife of Waltham, all of Massachusetts, thus making six of the ten surviving members of the class. The four who are- not there are J. Edgar Johnson of Philadelphia, S. P. Atkinson of Champaign, 111., L. L. Wood of Chicago, and Bishop Sellew. For the Bishop is a busy man, and had to go home.

We assembled Under the spacious roof of Parker, enjoying a social hour until high noon called us to the dinner table. "Before the War" we indulged in hyperbole when we talked about the table groaning under the weight of good things; but what was now laid before us made us think of the days when we were younger, and believe that the hyperbole had a grain of truth in it.

And the duck we had was not the one caught by one of our classmates and carried by another classmate to Fells and served later to the gang. And then after doing justice to Parker's dinner, we sat around the table in a reminiscent mood, recalling the men of the class, the members of the faculty with some the their characteristics, the physical conditions of the College, with many another thing. We renewed our youth, forgetting for a while the ills which so easily beset us.

We got down to business for a bit, and made Kendall president of the class, and rendered unto Parker what was due him—our sincere thanks for the rare entertaiment that he had give us.

Before we drew the curtain upon this perfect day, we declared that we would have another next year—deo volente.

Class of 1886

Another notable reunion took place at Hanover, when thirty graduates out of a possible forty-five living were present, and with them three non-graduates. Sixty-six and two-thirds per cent gave the class its first and greatly coveted alumni cup honor. Yielding to 71 at the twenty-fifth with a very narrow margin, to '66 at the thirtieth, and again to '7l at the thirty-fifth, 'B6 won handily at the recent fortieth with 1901 as "runner-up." And the victory seems all the sweeter when we realize that the added five graduates in attendance over the twenty-five of the thirty-fifth came through a normal rather than a publicity-made desire for a class gettogether. Before separation plans were under way for the forty-fifth.

Those in attendance were as follows : Bittinger, J. F., Botsford, E. F., Chaffin, W. E., Fairbanks, Arthur, Fowler, George W\, French, John, Frost, E. 8., Frost, G. D., Goodwin, K. H., Hale, A. H., Harris, T. J., Hatch, W. M., Howard, E. F., Howard, G. K., Jenks, C. L., Kelly, W. P., Marden, W. E., Newton, J. W., Richmond, A. P., Sampson, Walter, Snow, L. P., Thompson, J. G., Thurston, H.. W., Wales, G. W., Wardwell. N. C., Whitehill, G. E., Williams, L. 0., Wiswall, F. M., Wood, F. A., Vaughan, F. T., Burley, W. E., Ellis, J. E., Smith, H. O.

Added to the above were Mrs. Bittinger, Mrs. Botsford, Mrs. Fairbanks and Austin Fairbanks, Mrs. Fowler, Mary Ann Fowler, and Charles Smith Fowler, Mrs. E. B. Frost and Benjamin Dußois Frost, Elisabeth Frost Larson and Mr. Larson, Thurston Dußois Frost and Mrs. Frost, Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Hatch, Eleanor Hatch McCormick, 2d, Mrs. E. F. Howard, Mrs. Jenks, Mrs. Richmond and Allen P. Richmond, 3d, Mrs. Snow.. Mrs. Thompson, Henry W. Thurston, Jr., Mrs. Wardwell, Mrs. Wiswall, Mrs. Burley, Mrs. Ransom, and Eleanor Ransom.

Will Newton arrived Thursday afternoon, and the following morning found our energetic class president and Walter Sampson busily engaged in arranging a multitude of class pictures of undergraduate days and later—on the wall of the living-room at South Massachusetts, headquarters for the reunion. Through Friday evening and Saturday the arrivals continued, and among the first to visit us and to register were Larimer 'B5 and Bingham and Hadlock of 'B7. Many others, including Oakes 'B3, Austin 'B5, and Emery 'B7, were very welcome callers.

Through the thoughtful courtesy of Mrs. Hopkins the class was asked to attend the President's reception Saturday afternoon in a body, and did so informally a half hour before the time announced. The occasion was a delightful one and the class picture taken on the lawn included President Hopkins, Mrs. Hopkins, and their charming daughter, Ann. The class report for the coming forty-fifth reunion will have the group as its frontispiece.

The class dinner, a family party numbering fifty-four, was served at the Hanover Inn on Saturday evening". Dan Hadlock represented 'B7. With Newton presiding, Leslie Snow was introduced as toastmaster, and it was well after midnight when the party broke up, many "sitting in" at headquarters for an hour or two longer. The after-dinner speaking, while entirely informal, had been exceedingly enjoyable, and the class secretary and his better half were the recipients of a silver vegetable dish given in appreciation of twenty-five years of service.

On the following afternoon from four-thirty to six-thirty Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fairbanks entertained classmates and family members at their beautiful summer home on Balch Hill. Among those present as well were Prof. John K. Lord, Prof. James F. Colby and Miss Colby, Prof, and Mrs. E. J. Bartlett, Prof T. W. D. Worthen, Prof, and Mrs. George D. Lord. The informal address of each gentleman named and the appreciative class cheers for each will long be remembered. The death of Prof. Lord only a Week later seemed tragic, and must have been a shock to all who met and heard him there. Always a favorite of 'B6, he leaves a greatly cherished memory.

Later Sunday evening memorial exercises were held at the new "old" chapel, Rev. L. O. Williams presiding. Nine members of the class had died during the preceding five years. Hatch spoke in memory of John P.. Tucker; Thompson of Ernest J. Edmands; Jenks and Fowler of Ellon S. Hill; French and Ed Frost of Frank V. Johnson; Joe Bittinger of his brother, Fred P. Bittinger; Goodwin of George E. Fletcher; Snow, Kelly, and Wardwell of William H. Taylor ; Mrs. Ransom of her husband, George W. Ransom; Sampson, Whitehill, Thurston, Wiswall, and Fowler of George W. Stetson.

Monday was "visiting day," and the class and family ranks were soon badly broken. Some remained to enjoy the ball game Monday morning and the excellent concert of the musical clubs in the evening, and a few of the old guard were found in the alumni procession to Webster Hall, and later at the alumni dinner in the gymnasium: Fairbanks* French, Frost, E. 8., Frost, G. D., Goodwin, Hatch, Jenks, Newton, Richmond, Sampson, Snow, and Williams. Sitting with the class were Parker 'B5, Bingham, Emery, and Hadlock, 'B7, Pattee 'BB, and Larson and Ben Frost, and all joined in the oldtime Indian yell for 'B6 when the class was announced cup winner by Secretary Clark.

Quoting Pete Richmond's version of the 'B7 song classic:

"Since 'B6 first gave the yell And 'B4 did quite as well, With 'B5 we'll dwell in Heaven And Wah Who Wah with '87."

William M. Hatch Secretary.

Class of 1906

The Twentieth has come and gone, and it seems to be the unanimous opinion of those attending that it was the best reunion the class of 1906 has ever had. Perhaps all twentieths are so, and all twenty-fifths and all thirtieths and so on, for the pleasures of reminiscence certainly increase as men grow older. We are no longer boys or even young men; we are entering upon the first stages of settled middle age—.our "early forties"—and the hours we spent together at the recent Commencement were bound to be fuller of meaning than any previous ones. But when all due allowance is made for this natural heightening of pleasure by the passage of time, we know that the complete success of our reunion has by no means been accounted for: there remains Nat Leverone. Nat's untiring efforts in our behalf for many months, his skillful editing of the "News Letter" in such a way as to arouse enthusiasm far and near for a return to Hanover, his careful supervision of every detail of preparation—these are the elements which nurtured our reunion into healthy maturity. The entire class is his grateful debtor.

The reunion was marked by its informality, no special events being scheduled except the picnic and the class dinner. Each member of the class was allowed to do just as he pleased for most of the time, an arrangement that permitted much freer "visiting" and interchange of old memories and new ideas than had been possible at previous reunions. The sensational clothing of our earlier days we left to the younger alumni, satisfying ourselves with simple green-banded white hats and light canes as marks of identification, and contenting our wives with quite stylish green silk umbrellas.

The registrations were not complete, but the best figures available show that our gathering numbered at least 152: 76 members of the class, 41 wives, 33 children, and 2 other guests. It is reported 152 of these had a thoroughly good time. They came from all parts of the country, but the records for distance were held by two of our non-residents, Bob Richardson from Rancagua, Chile, and Bug Gardiner from Medellin, Colombia, South America. The greatest 1906 travelers in the United States were Charlie Milham and Tubby Laton from Los Angeles.

The family picnic, attended by 137, was held on Sunday at the delightful grounds of "Shanty Shane" at Lake Fairlee, twenty miles north of Hanover. Dinner and supper were served in the clubhouse; the rest of the day w.as spent in simple amusements out-of-doors. Art Meservey utilized the bright sunshine to take individual snapshots of every man present, and Shorty Davis to get each of us preserved on moving picture film for our reminiscent delight five years hence. The impromptu cabaret entertainment of the dinner hour, with Paul Felt and Nate Redlon at the piano and such old time stars as Fat Pratt and Beany Waring on the floor, was one of the high spots of the day.

Just before supper the class held its necessary business meeting with President Chidley in the chair. Besides the conducting of routine business, a message of greeting and a bouquet of flowers were sent to Dr. and Mrs. Tucker. The following permanent officers were elected for the ensuing five years: president, Nathaniel Leverone; vice-president, Charles R. Main; secretary, Francis L. Childs; treasurer, Norman Russell; the foregoing officers with Clarence T. Gray, member at large, to form the executive committee.

At the class dinner Monday evening in the Commons, sixty-five men were present. Former President Chidley, who presided throughout the evening, read the names of those members of the class who have died since the fifteenth reunion, and a silent toast was drunk to their memory. The only speeches were short impromptu talks by Bug Gardiner, who told of his experiences in Colombia; by Shorty Davis, who, having accompanied the Walker Cup Team to England, told about the golf matches there and experiences on the way; by Bob Richardson, who outlined the details of the controversy between the Peruvians and the Chileans which has occupied so much space in our papers the past year; and by Halsey Edgerton, who discussed the growth of the College during the past few years. The dinner— and the twentieth reunion—concluded with the Dartmouth Song.

F. L. Childs Secretary.

Class of 1911

My report of the Tenth was prefaced by the remark that either 1911 chose to have its reunion at one of the best Commencements ever staged, or else the College had one of the best Commencements because of our very successful reunion. This remark applies equally well to our Famous Fifteenth. In fact, I think all had a better time than they did at the Tenth. They got together and got acquainted then and this time they continued to develop the friendships that were renewed five years ago. It should also be a source of pride to the class that all were able to enjoy themselves to the utmost and still leave no opportunity of complaint to those whose definition of fun has not always been accepted unanimously by the class. The administration, townspeople, and classmates have agreed that it was one of the cleanest and most enjoyable reunions of our generation. For that, thanks are due to the classmates themselves.

Our numbers were smaller than those of the Titanic Tenth, as was to be expected, but we did produce 126 men and 85 wives, and that is still a record for the fifteenth reuning class, and incidentally, more than any other class could boast of this Commencement. As usual, however, the silver cup for the largest percentage of living graduates returning went to one of the older classes, as we could make only about a fifty per cent grade. We are waiting for someone to offer a cup to that class returning the largest number of graduates regardless of proportion and then we can compete better with the forty and fifty year classes.

By Friday evening, Wheeler, Richardson and Crosby Halls were filled by 1911'ers and by Saturday night they were sleeping in the hall ways rather than live elsewhere than at headquarters. Many classmates were back to their first reunion and some in Hanover for the first time since their college days. Vail Applegate and Neal Hotaling broke all records, both being here for the first time since 1908 and 1909 respectively. Sam Richardson came all the way from Ireland and Louis Hall from France. Then there were those who said they couldn't possibly make it, but came just the same, like Dutch Irwin and Mac Rollins, who everybody knew would come anyway. But to tell of all who were here would be a whole report—and you will have that later.

After our costumes were donned and a general handshaking had been participated in, we gathered at Robinson Hall where we danced and Pat Partridge Charlestoned to the tunes of the Barbary Coast Orchestra, which furnished music on all occasions during reunion. Saturday morning, Dick Paul got everybody out bright and early, and dressed in sweaters and golf socks, all of a color, with white hats, and carrying green swagger sticks and banners, we paraded around the town and across the campus. (Incidentally, the blue and tan jerseys were so well liked that students and other reuners and townspepole have been buying what were left over.) During the day all cavorted or golfed or visited together as suited them best. Anyhow, all were free to do' as they chose and so far as I know, they did. In the afternoon many strolled up to the President's reception to show him how much they had improved in the last five years.

Saturday evening, the ladies had a block of tickets which entitled them to see the Players present "The 1926 Revue." The men sort of found things to do by themselves, many of them not having had enough golf during the day, reuned together near the edge of the golf links where they could have a bonfire and make believe it was still daylight. The rest of the night some went to bed while others wandered, still visiting and trying to make the most of their allotted time in Hanover.

Sunday was the big day. It started with the class meeting in Dartmouth Hall, where class affairs were discussed and a memorial service was held under the direction of Gabe Farrell for the six classmates who have left us in the past five years. The service opened and closed with short prayers by Gabe. He called on six men to speak briefly for those who could no longer be with us: Ken Clark for Roy Earnhardt, Dutch Elwell for Henry Brown, Walter Morgan for George French, Bill Henderson for John Helliwell, Dick Whelden for Art Knight and Bert Wheeler for Joe Magrane.

The class meeting was an excellent one. All were interested in learning about the class activities and entered into serious discussion regarding them. Reports for the past year were made by the Secretary, Treasurer and Class Agent. These will appear in the coming Reunion Report. Warren Agry reported for the specially appointed committee with George Morris as chairman, and Agry and Bert Wheeler as the other members. He explained what the committee had done in arbitrarily selecting members of the class, putting them into three groups and asking them to contribute $lOO, $5O, and $25 to the Alumni Fund. With few exceptions their requests were generously and cheerfully met with the result that the Fund this year had been easily oversubscribed. John Pearson, Class Agent, reported, however, that the number of contributors was not as large as usual and hoped the group of smaller contributors would be enlarged. The committee had been appointed to investigate and report at this meeting as to the advisability of raising a special fund to be presented to the College at our twenty-fifth reunion. They unanimously reported that this was inadvisable and recommended that instead of a separate subscription to be turned in over ten years from now for a special purpose, the class make its contributions yearly through the Alumni Fund, and the excess contribution above the class quota each year for the next ten years be considered as our gift to the College after twenty-five years as alumni. This report was accepted by the class.

George Morris was then introduced as the next executive secretary of the General Alumni Fund. He outlined briefly the plans of the Fund Committee and expressed the hope that 1911 would lead the way, and that the other classes would respond equally well to whatever plans they might develop. He recommended that our class set its own quota, which should include that arbitrarily set by the College, plus an amount to cover those who each year drop out or are unable to give, plus a further amount to represent our contribution toward a twenty-fifth reunion gift. It was then moved by Bud Schell that a fixed amount of $2500 be added to the Alumni Fund quota each year for ten years, to represent such a gift. After being seconded much discussion followed. The motion was then amended and unanimously passed as follows: Voted that the Executive Committee and Class Agent set an amount above the quota assigned to the class by the Alumni Fund Committee, for each of the next ten years to represent our contribution to the College on the occasion of our twenty- fifth reunion.

Upon suggestion of George Morris a contribution was made by the members of the class to cover extra expenses in connection with reunion. For the rest of the morning, therefore, Wee Kimball was busy gathering in five dollar bills.

Because of the death of their fathers just prior to reunion, the Secretary was instructed to write to the mothers of Larry Odlin and Frank Wheatley, expressing the sympathy of the class in their bereavement. He was also instructed to send the greetings of the class to our beloved ex-President, Dr. Tucker.

George Morris, reporting for the nominating committee, recommended that the following men be elected to the Executive Committee for the following five years: N. G. Burleigh, L. D. Hawkridge, and J. W. Pearson for New England; W. F. Kimball for New York; W. C. Agry for Chicago.

The elections having been made, the committee elected the following officers: W. C. Agry, President; N. G. Burleigh, Secretary; L. D. Hawkridge, Treasurer; G. H. Adams, Class Agent.

Following the class meeting, the wives appeared on the scene and all joined on the steps of Dartmouth for the class picture. Automobiles were then filled and headed for Lake Tarleton where a picnic lunch. awaited us and was quickly devoured by 191 hungry Eleveners and wives. The rest of the day was given up to golf, walking about the lake or just sitting on the piazza looking off to the summit of Moosilauke. Cap Hedges became a captain in reality, launched a row boat and picking out a couple of the best-looking wives, investigated the mysteries of the lake.

That evening an excellent entertainment arranged by Jack Ingersoll was staged in Robinson Hall. Duke Dunning had a funny story or two as usual. Don Cheney, Lew Sisson, Boli Sherwin and Mrs. Ben Stout gave us the benefit of their excellent voices, while Mort Hull of 'O9 dropped in and sang a few of his old timers to his own accompaniment on the guitar. Also, for the first time in five years, we heard Austin KeougK's rendition of Mike O'Grady's goat. He (Austin) has lost none of the nimbleness of his tongue. Later the crowd adjourned to the Tuck School where movie reels of college life and lantern slides were shown.

Monday morning found the usual parade to Memorial Field taking place for the ball game between Dartmouth and the Amherst-Williams combination. For the benefit of those who left early, announcement is made that Dartmouth won the game in the last of the ninth inning. In the afternoon while the men were visiting at their new fraternity houses, the secretary's wife at their home—unassisted by the secretary —dispensed punch and sandwiches to the ladies, all dressed up in their prettiest. Later, they attened the Musical Clubs concert.

That evening, ninety men (some had left during the day) sat down to 191 l's best banquet to date, at the Hanover Inn. It was surely a fitting climax to a fine reunion. Warren Agry insisted on Dick Paul's continuing in the office of President until the evening was ended. As usual, Dick made an excellent toastmaster. President Hopkins joined us after we had eaten everything in sight and was rewarded for his coming by being presented with a handwrought sixteen inch silver punch bowl inscribed as follows:

"Presented by the Class of 1911, Dartmouth College, at its Fifteenth Reunion to President Ernest Martin Hopkins as an expression of its respect for his unselfish devotion to the College and his fearless constructive leadership in the Wheelock Succession, June, 1926."

It was a great pleasure not only for Dick to present but for all of us to assist in giving a token of our love and esteem for Dartmouth's great president. For once at least, Hop was somewhat at a loss for words to express his gratitude and pleasure but eventually mastered the situation while we listened to one of his most interesting talks about the College. The secretary was also temporarily embarrassed while he rummaged around trying to overcome his surprise and express his feelings of thanks for a gift of a fly rod and tackle box that would make any fisherman's mouth water. Chet Butts made it evident that this was a reward for his feeble services of the past five years, as though he had not already had reward enough by being allowed to serve in that position. Anyhow, he has- since tried them out and found they are all that the manufacturers claimed for them. He is now ready to furnish fish dinners to any classmates who apply—and bring their fish with them.

The secretary read many telegrams and letters from classmates filled with sorrow and regret that they could not be with us. All were pleased to hear a few words from Frank Dodge who modestly tried to assure us that he would do his best to give us a good time in Whitefield, and spoke of the pleasure it gave him and his mother and father to have us with them.

George Morris didn't speak, but we had a few words of appreciation from our new president, Warren Agry, and our reunion in Hanover was ended.

The next morning some remained to see our classmate, Walter Morgan, get his honorary degree of D.D. and attended the Alumni Luncheon, but most were away to an early start for Whitefield where the reunion was continued for the rest of the week. Ninety-six sat around Frank Dodge's dinner table that night. Our genial hosts, Frank and his mother and father, did everything possible to make us comfortable and happy—and they succeeded. But that is another story and will be told in our Reunion Report. I merely quote from Cotty Larmon's Bulletin that he sends to the Alumni Associations, "Through the courtesy of Frank Dodge of Whitefield, the class of 1911 continued its party at his inn during the following week. I talked with some of these men when they stopped off at Hanover on their way home and I was assured that nothing had so bound the class together as the days at Whitefield."

The Famous Fifteenth has passed into history—but I am sure it is still fresh in the minds of all who were there—and may it remain so until our Twentieth.

N. G. Burleigh Secretary.

NECROLOGY

CLASS OF 1861

Harlan Winslow Page was born at Tamworth, N. H., January 2, 1838, and died of apoplexy at Northfield, Minn., June 15, 1926. His parents were Jabez and Lucy (Winslow) Page, his father being a typical New Hampshire farmer earning a moderate living on a small farm. The son, ambitious for a different life, made a contract at the age of fifteen to enter a country store in a neighboring town, to serve till the age of twenty-one. His employer thought he ought to have a little more education than the district school afforded, and proposed to send him to an academy for two terms. Accordingly he was sent to Gilmanton, N. H., where was located an Institution established in the last century to "promote Christian education." By teaching, keeping books, driving a stage-coach, extending taxes, etc., he was able to earn enough, money to pay expenses and still maintain a good standing in his classes, and at of nineteen entered the class of 1861 in the fall of 18S7. He maintained more than an average rank during the four years in college, and nearly paid all his expenses by teaching winters and running a college bookstore during senior year in Reed Hall.

After graduation he taught a short time in Danvers, Mass., and from February, 1862, to the spring of 1864 was principal of the academy at Lancaster, N. H. It was here that he made the acquaintance of Maria C. Eastman, his assistant teacher, who afterwards became his wife, and who with two daughters survives him. Loss of voice obliged him to give up teaching early in 1864, and in April of that year he secured a position as clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C.

That position not appealing to him as a lifework, he was induced by his classmate Redington, then stationed in Washington as a paymaster, to become his clerk, and he accepted that position in the spring of 1865. Soon after the surrender at Appomattox, the paymaster was ordered to Springfield, 111., to pay Illinois troops who were being mustered out of service. Page remained there till the paymaster himself was mustered out, December 1, 186 S. Mr. Page decided to remain in the West, and went to McGregor, lowa, to get advice from Mr. Samuel Merrill, who afterwards became governor of lowa. Mr. Merrill was president of a national bank in that city, and was the man who enabled Page to attend Gilmanton Academy years before. The latter spent several months in the bank learning the rudiments of banking, and having acquired them he settled in Austin, Minn., where he established a private bank, which after a period was incorporated as a national bank, of which Mr. Page was cashier for sixteen years. While a resident of he represented his district in the state legislature, and was the president of the board of education in his city for three years.

He was a great believer in the Christian college, and in the early Seventies, when Carleton College was founded and located at Northfield, Minn., he was elected a trustee, and served fifty-five years, until his death, a record that can hardly be duplicated in any college in the country. In 1885 he was elected financial and recording secretary of the college, which necessitated his removal to Northfield. In 1903 the office of financial secretary was abolished, and he was elected treasurer. He had a great deal more to do with the actual business management than is usually associated with that office. He was more than treasurer, and might have been called the business manager of the institution. He was the closest man to several presidents of the college, and had much to do with its physical growth. His business dealings for the college were noted for their justice, their courtesy, and their carefulness. With a vision that looked far into the future and long before the college had need of an athletic field, he purchased an available tract for the purpose, for the improvement of which a wealthy friend of the college provided the necessary funds.

In 1910 Mr. Page retired on a Carnegie allowance, on equal terms with college professors. Notwithstanding his exacting duties in connection with the college, he recognized his obligations to the church, to which he gave much time and thought. He might well be called the first citizen of his city, and was a most worthy representative of his Alma Mater, of which he was one of the oldest alumni when he passed to the reward of a well-spent life.

CLASS OF 1868

Professor John King Lord died suddenly of heart failure at Wonalancet, N. H., June 26, 1926.

He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 21, 1848, the son of Rev. John King (Dartmouth 1836) and Laura Esther (Smith) Lord, and grandson of Dr. Nathan Lord, president of Dartmouth from 1828 to 1863. The remainder of his life history can best be told in his own words, condensed somewhat from the account given in the biographical sketches of his class.

"My father died in the following July of cholera, and in October my mother brought me to her father's home in Hardwick, Vt. There, on the small farm of a country physician, I passed most of my boyhood. I prepared for college in the Washington County Grammar School at Montpelier, Vt.

"I taught my first school at Chester, N. H., in the winter of sophomore year, in which I was successful enough to be asked to return the next winter, but which left me with the firm determination above all things not to be a teacher. "At graduation, however, I found that the only way to get bread and butter was to accept a small salary as teacher in the Appleton Academy at New Ipswich, N. H. There I stayed one year, during which I received an invitation to become tutor in Latin at Dartmouth, an invitation which was perhaps due to the partiality of our classmate Emerson, who was already a tutor in the College. In accepting it I cast the anchor which has kept me from further wandering. In three years I was made associate professor of Latin, and after various modifications of title and work I became full professor of Latin in 1892, when for a year I was also acting president in the interval between President Bartlett and President Tucker, and during the administration of President Tucker I was acting president of the faculty, in his absence.

"During my connection with the faculty I had two and a half years of absence, which I spent in study in Germany and in travel in Europe and about the Mediterranean. In October of 1918 I should have reached the retiring age, but several reasons led me to anticipate that close. The most urgent of these was the health of Mrs. Lord, which rendered it desirable for her to spend the winter in a warmer climate than that of New England.

"As it did not seem best to continue to teach a part of the year, even if such an arrangement were allowed, I offered my resignation in October of 1915, to take effect in the following February. The trustees did not accept my resignation, but generously gave me a leave of absence for the winter months and asked me to return for the last term of the college year, proposing a similar arrangement for the future. Mrs. Lord and I went south for the winter, returning in April, and I finished the college year in teaching. Notwithstanding the request of the trustees, I did not think it wise either for the college or for myself to continue such a broken schedule of work, and I insisted on the acceptance of my resignation. This was done and I ended my connection with the faculty in June of 1916, at the end of forty-seven years, the longest term of teaching service in the history of the College. In the winter of 1917, to my complete surprise, I was elected a trustee of the College to succeed Francis Brown, who had died in the October before. It has been a great pleasure thus to renew my association with the College, though in a different capacity, and one in which I hope that my experience as a teacher may not be without its use.

"In the course of the years I have edited two college text-books in Latin, a part of Livy and Cicero's Laelius, and also a classical atlas. I have edited the first volume of the History of Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover, N. H., written by my brother-in-law, Frederick Chase, of the class of 1860, who died just as it was ready for the press, and I have completed the History of the College in a second volume, which appeared in the summer of 1913. "On January 20, 1873, I was married in Washington, D. C., to Miss Emma Fuller Pomeroy of Detroit, Mich., and coming directly to Hanover we have since lived in the house occupied during my college course by Professor Packard. We have four children, three sons, all of whom were graduated at Dartmouth, and one daughter, who was graduated at Smith." For an appreciation of the services to the College of this greatly loved and honored teacher our readers are referred to another department of the MAGAZINE.

CLASS OF 1870

or. Lucien Ethalston Wells, a member of this class in the Chandler Scientific Department during sophomore year, died of cerebral hemorrhage in Brookline, Mass., May 25, 1926.

The son of Samuel Bailey and Delia Augusta (Bowles) Wells, he was born in Athens, Vt., July 28, 1844. He was a member of the class oJ 1869 at Amherst during its freshman year. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).

After leaving college he began the study of medicine with Dr. Daniel Campbell of Saxton's River, Vt., attending lectures at the University of Vermont and at Albany Medical College and graduating as M.D. at the latter in 1870. For the next two years he was house physician at the Brattleboro (Vt.) Retreat. In 1872 he settled in practice at Phoenix, R. 1., but soon removed to Washington, D. C., where he remained about two years. For some time after this he made his home in his. native town, engaged in lecturing and journalism. Then he was connected for about six years with the insane hospital at Mount Pleasant, lowa, and then for years in general practice in Providence, R. 1., and later in Virginia. For over fifteen years he had been in poor health, living most of the time in Boston, and spending much of the time in the hospital. He also suffered from financial difficulties, losing most of his property through unfortunate investments. During the last few years his health was considerably improved. He was a man of keen mind, a great reader, of genial manners, and a general favorite among his acquaintances.

In January, 1871, Dr. Wells was married to Mrs. Mary F. (Webb) Prindle of North Ferrisburg, Vt., who died many years ago. They had two sons: Samuel Bailey was killed in a street car accident in Richmond at the age of 25, and Lucien E., Jr., was drowned at the age of 19. Burial was in the family lot at Brattleboro, Vt.

CLASS OF 1877

Rev. Robert John Service died at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich., June 17, 1926, after a long period of ill health.

He was born in Galwav, Ireland, September 20, 1854. his parents being Rev. John and Anna (Wilson) Service. William A. Service 'BO is a brother. The family came to America in 1859, and in 1870 the father became pastor of the United Presbyterian church at Barnet, Vt., where was Robert's home when in college. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy, and took high rank as a student throughout his course, being a speaker at Junior Exhibition and Commencement and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also took a prominent part in class and college matters. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

Res angusta domi caused his teaching during each winter of the course as well as undertaking other gainful work during the summers,, so he was no novice when he became in the fall after graduation principal of the high school at Ottumwa, lowa. This position he resigned in November 1878, to become private secretary to the assistant superintendent of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, at Burlington, lowa. He left this position in August, 1879, and entered Union Theological Seminary, New York, where he remained for the full course, graduating in 1882, and also for a year of graduate study. In August 1883, he became pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Red Wing, Minn., where he remained until March 1, 1888, when he became pastor of the Trumbull Avenue church in Detroit. Reasons of health caused his resignation of this pastorate and retirement from the active ministry in 1898, after a record of pronounced success as preacher and pastor. During the Detroit pastorate, in 1894, Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

He remained in Detroit, ahd entered upon a business career in which he was as successful as in his professional life. He was at first manager of the Royal Manufacturing Company, then secretary and treasurer of the Mcßae and Roberts Company, manufacturers of brass goods. In 1915 he closed his connection with this company, and became president and treasurer of the Hugh Wallace Company, manufacturers of cloth, robes, etc. Some years before his death he retired from active business.

He was a member of the Detroit Boat Club and the Ingleside Club, having been president of the latter.

September 2, 1884, he was married to Mary Duncan, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Park) Mcllwraith of Hamilton, Ont., who died in November 1907. They had three children, all of whom survive their parents: Marion Reed, Helen Forsyth, and Willis James.

CLASS OF 1878

Charles Morse Stevens died at Eugene, Oregon, May 27, 1926, after a brief illness, breaking by his death a tie which had existed for some time between living and deceased members of the class, and giving the majority to those beyond the great divide.

Mr. Stevens was born at West Waterville, Maine, Oct. 21, 1855, son of Joseph E. and L. Amanda (Lewis) Stevens. He prepared for college at Waterville Classical Institute. He taught school three of the four winters of his course, and continued to teach after graduation while studying law and until he began its practice at Herman, Minn., in 1881. He was elected county attorney in 1882, and served in that office until 1888, when he moved to Minneapolis. After a year there he settled at Aberdeen, N. D., where he continued in active practice of his profession until 1916, when he removed to Eugene, Oregon. He was married in 1885 to Miss Florence Hubbard of Minneapolis, who, with two daughters, survives him.

Mr. Stevens was a man of scholarly tastes and of fine public spirit, serving as member and president of the board of education of Aberdeen for many years ,and active in the organization and maintenance of a Social Service Club.

At Eugene, where is located the University of Oregon, he enjoyed the privileges of the university library and gave much study to social question of various types, national and international. He soon gained there a reputation both as a lawyer and as a public spirited citizen, and was active as a speaker and worker in the activities arising out of the war. He was prominent in Masonic circles, and his funeral was conducted by the Masonic order.

In college he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He had never been back to Hanover since graduation, but had hoped to attend the reunion of 1928.

He was a member of the Methodist church, which he joined in middle life.

Judge John Edwin Young, for many years a justice, and finally for a brief period before his retirement in January, 1925, chief justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, died at his home in Exeter, June 14, 1926.

Judge Young's was in many respects an unique personality. He was born at Stratham, N. H., January 26, 18S5, son of Mark F. and Olive L. (Piper) Young. He prepared for college at Coe's Academy, Northwood, N. H.

In college he was soon recognized by those who knew him best as a man of marked ability. But owing perhaps in part to a physical appearance that was far from prepossessing, a dress and manner that seemed designed to aggravate rather than to soften the oddity of his exterior, a voice that was little more than a stage whisper, a taciturnity that was in itself picturesque, broken at intervals by pungent utterances often humorous and always shrewd, an apparent willingness to play the satyr and to be interpreted at the worst rather than at the best, a zest and a resourcefulness for the type of surreptitious sport in vogue in those days, and a habit of remaining always in the background of whatever enterprise he participated in, he gained and accepted a perhaps unmerited distinction as the arch conspirator of every escapade not otherwise accounted for, and was accorded by his friends the honorary and to them honorable title of "The Black Angel."

Apparently because some members of the faculty accepted this distinction too literally, he was denied at graduation the honor of membership in Phi Beta Kappa to which his rank entitled him. This injustice rankled with his classmates more than it did with him, and was finally atoned for after he had gained public distinction of a more significant sort.

The habits of taciturnity, oracular wisdom, and of reserve amounting to self-depreciation, he maintained through life. At graduation he gave farming as his intended vocation, and the reports, he made to the class secretary continued to name farming as his occupation until he had been practicing law for some years and had attained conspicuous recognition as a lawyer. This included the period from 1883 to 1886, during which, partly in search of health, which was always precarious, and partly by way of business adventure, he located for a time in Lincoln, Neb., and again in Sumter County, Fla., but always reporting himself as engaged in farming at Stratham.

Once entered upon the practice of law at Exeter, his advancement was rapid, and in 1898 he was appointed to the bench of what was then known as the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, and served continuously as justice of that court or of the Supreme Court subsequently established upon the present basis, until his retirement at the age limit as above stated.

His success was gained by none of the arts that make for popularity and by no self-advertising. He seldom attended social functions or even professional gatherings. He maintained his high standing among professional associates and in public confidence by the keeness and rugged integrity of his thinking, the terseness of his statements., and the soundness of his practical judgment. He was at the time of his death chairman of the State Tax Commission, and was some years ago chairman of a commission appointed to investigate conditions at the State Hospital for the Insane when that institution was for a time under fire.

He was married in 1895 to Miss Bertha J. Hobbs, who died about 1906. He had no children.

He did not attend class reunions, but always contributed liberally to the class treasury and to the Alumni Fund, and he was always a friend to turn to in time of need for any individual or any cause that won his confidence. His responses to appeals of the class secretary for news of himself were always laconic and seldom informing, but usually enclosed a check. The following, dated January, 1909, is distinctly characteristic : "Replying to yours in re what I have done in thirty years, will say, nothing in fact that anybody would care to hear about. I have made the running, and that is all there is to it. I am neither noted nor notorious."

But in the eyes of his associates he made a noble running, overcame all handicaps, and attained success of a high order. At the time of his funeral the sessions of the Supreme Court were suspended, all local places of business were closed, and the governor and present and former justices of the Supreme and Superior Courts were in attendance.

ills place m the public regard is indicated by the following excerpts from a tribute in the Exeter News-Letter of June 25 :

"Those who knew him through constant association will naturally miss him most. Sometimes abrupt in manner, so contemptuous of external appearance that one had to make genuine progress in intimacy before becoming used to his indifference to dress, he yet drew the affections as he held the respect of friends in increasing degree as the years passed. At his heart lay a great kindness; he delighted in being helpful, when help was deserved. Though naturally thrifty—he once said in jest that it hurt him to let a dollar slip through his fingers—he made a practice of giving away every year a fixed proportion of his income. For any good cause you had but to start with your appeal when he would cut in "how much?' and reach for his check book. Much of his giving will never be known except to the recipients. He felt a warm sympathy with young men seeking to beat a handicap in the start of life, and did not confine his interest to moral counsel. He loved children and animals, loved his garden and the profusion of beauty with which he made it bloom. Fundamental to his character was loyalty to friends. As the man who had deceived him or failed him in an emergency could not easily regain his regard, so his friends were his friends whatever their social position or fortune, unless they forfeited their place through their own unworthiness. He had no patience with shams, was suspicious of pretence, gave ability its honest due whether it stood with him or against him. If he felt pride in his achievements and honors, he never betrayed the fact. Egotism was as far from his nature as desire to make a show. In man or in measures it was always the kernel that he sought; for the shell of things he cared nothing at all.

"His wisdom, though first of all legal, embraced also the financial, the political, the practical. His strength was that of one who knows his opinion, asserts it frankly when—and only when—the occasion requires such assertion, and abides the consequences without flinching; who fears no one and courts no one; who confronts year by year the problems of life with cheerful patience and steady industry, unflushed by success and unsoured by failure. His public spirt was shown not merely m a helpful and generous attitude toward everything that promised betterment for town and state, but in lavish devotion of days and weeks of valuable time to the larger causes that appealed for aid to his technically competent mind. Such, for example, was the drafting of the education law of 1919, and the codification of the whole body of laws affecting public schools in 1921. Such were many of the services required of him by his town on committees both of investigation and of performance. Did the question concern the erection of a schoolhouse or a soldiers' monument, the rebuilding of a hospital, the uniting of parishes, the improvement of the water supply—we turned habitually to Judge Young as one whose sagacity and integrity were uniformly recognized. His readiness to serve was taken for granted."

CLASS OF 1879

Frank George Wheatley died at his home 174 Adams St., North Abington, Mass., on June 14, 1926.

In a phrase now less used than when Dr. Wheatley was young he "sought" education, and his search would for most men have been very painful. Obliged from youth to earn the cost of his own higher schooling, he therefore entered college when older than were most of his classmates on graduation; yet he was, and remained through life as young as the youngest in feeling and thought, and in body among the most vigorous until almost the end.

Born in Woodbury, Vt., July 6, 1851, he began teaching in district schools while still in his 'teens, working over a rather wide territory, and as far from home as the middle west; and he continued to teach during the winter while in College, and for a short time after graduation.

As an undergraduate he was elected to Delta Kappa Epsilon; his A.B, he took with Phi Beta Kappa. rank, and A.M. he received in course. He studied medicine while teaching, attending lectures first at the University of Vermont, and then at Dartmouth where he received his M.D. in 1884.

A few months later he began practice in North Abington and there spent the remainder of his life.

On October 14, 1886 he married Miss Nellie J. Holbrook of North Ab'ington, who survives him with four sons; Frank E. '11; George D.'l 4; Russell 11., M.I.T. 'l7, and John R. '24.

Dr. Wheatley not only became a leading practictioner in the Brockton-Abington region, but soon began teaching again. He lectured first (1889-1901) in the Boston College of Physicians and Surgeons but from 1893 until health failed he filled the department of Pharmacology in the Tufts College Medical School. He was also for years Vice-Dean, at times Acting Dean; and in the opinion of professional friends he, more than any other one man, contributed to the advacement and improvement of the Tufts School.

Political activities always attracted him, and he was obviously fitted for the life. It was not strange that he should have been for over thirty consecutive years Moderator of the Abington Town Meeting, or that his neighbors sent him to the lower house of the Legislature (1904-5) and the Senate (1907-8) for as long as he could afford the time to go.

During the World War he was commissioned Major in the Medical Corps, and was aide to the Governor of Massachusetts. His wide acquaintance with the doctors of the State was usefully requisitioned, and he was amused at being probably the oldest man commissioned from civil life in 1917-18.

In addition to professional and political duties, Dr. Wheatley was much in demand as Trustee or Director of institutions both public and private, and he had to the end many • such offices.

For about a year before his death, Dr. Wheatley suffered from ailments resulting rather from age than acute disease; the rugged health of a long life broke completely, and the end for family and friends was rendered especially painful by an acute melancholia.

Never too busy to be genial, canny but very kind, Dr. Wheatley was naturally successful, and enjoyed it. At the gathering of his class forty-five years after graduation, he reported to the Secretary thus:- "my professional life has been interesting and enjoyable;" "I have had a taste of political life which was very pleasant," and "on the whole my lines have fallen in pleasant places." A host -of friends recognized the truth of that report, and they loved one who could in such a way sum up seventy-three years.

C. M. H.

CLASS OF 1881

Arthur Fuller Odlin died June 7, 1926, at his home in Jacksonville, Fla., after an illness of several months.

He was born in Concord, N. H., April 25, 1860, his parents being Woodbridge and Abby Pratt (Comstock) Odlin, and prepared for college at the high school of that city. He left Dartmouth during sophomore year, and after a year's intermission entered the class of 'B2 at Amherst as a sophomore, remaining there through junior year.

After leaving Amherst he studied law at Amherst and Springfield, Mass., and Lancaster, N. H., at the last place being in the office of Ray, Drew, Jordan, and Carpenter, three of whom were Dartmouth men. In 1884-5 he studied at Boston University, and graduated as LL.B. in 1885. He was admitted to the New Hampshire bar July 31, 1885, and in December of that year began practice at Orlando, Fla., where he remained until the latter part of 1898. He then went to San Juan, Porto Rico, and was attorney general of that island from the latter part of 1899 to 1901. In 1901 he was appointed a judge of the Court of First Instance of the Philippine Islands, and was at first assigned to the Manila district and later to a district in the interior. In 1904 he left the bench, and was in practice in Manila until December 1, 1906. Returning to America, he was in Boston from February, 1907, to August, 1908, and then in Cleveland, Ohio, to September, 1910. He then resumed practice in Florida, paying especial attention to real estate matters, and being at Orlando, 1910-12, at Acadia, 1912-20, and at Jacksonville, 1920-1. In 1921 he was appointed judge of the United States District Court for Porto Rico. This position he resigned May 20, 1925, and returned to Jacksonville.

October 5, 1886, Judge Odlin was married to Mary Emma, daughter of Charles Edwin and Eunice (Abbott) Allen of Lancaster, N. H., who survives him, with a son, Lawrence Allen (Dartmouth 1911), lieutenant commander U. S. N., and a daughter, Evelyn, now Mrs. James K. At wood of Jacksonville, Fla.

The burial was at Concord, N. H., and the minister officiating at the funeral service, who knew Judge Odlin well in Porto Rico, paid a high tribute to his four-square integrity and to his love of justice and of his native country.

CLASS OF 1886

George Ward Stetson died at his home in Middleboro, Mass., on the night of June 1. He had not been in good health for some time, but the illness which proved fatal began late last fall. A trip to the Bermudas in the early spring so far improved his condition that hopes of his recovery were entertained, but the hope proved futile.

He was born in Lakeville, Mass., February 27, 1866, the son of Sprague S. arid Thalia (Weston) Stetson. He prepared for college at Middleboro High School. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he returned to his father's farm in Lakeville, where he remained for a year. He then began the study of law in the office of his uncle, Thomas Weston of Boston, and continued the study at Boston University Law School where he graduated in 1890. He continued in his uncle's office with an evening office in Middleboro from his admission to the bar in 1890 until 1897. He then gave up his Boston office and gave all his time to Middleboro. From 1895 to 1900 he was special justice of the Fourth District of Plymouth County. In 1900 he was appointed referee in bankruptcy, relinquishing this office a few months ago by reason of his health. His district comprised a large part of southeastern Massachusetts. His practice meanwhile was constantly increasing. For a time he was in partnership with Albert H. Washburn, now a member of the College faculty and minister to Austria. Later he was in partnership with Fletcher Clark, Jr., 'l2.

He was one of the original trustees of the estate of Thomas S. Peirce. He was a trustee of the Middleboro Savings Bank and for years its clerk, and a director of the Middleboro Trust Company. A member of the Central Baptist church, he had served as a member of its prudential committee and its treasurer, and as superintendent of its Sunday school. He had been on the board of management of the Y.M.C. A., and its president and treasurer. He was a member of the Masonic lodge, chapter, and commandery, and a member of the Middleboro Commercial Club.

Despite the exacting duties of his profession and the demands upon his time and strength in the manifold offices he filled, Mr. Stetson had so strong a sense of civic duty that he readily accepted many lesser places of trust, in which he was of peculiar worth to his fellow townsmen. He was a member of various committees of the town; chairman of the school committee; president of the Old Middleborough Historical Association; and chairman of the trustees of the Ann White Washburn Scholarship Fund. To all these he gave the same painstaking attention which characterized all his dealings.

June 26, 1896, Mr. Stetson was married to Myra, daughter of M. H. Cushing of Middleboro, who survives him, with three daughters, Mrs. Stanley F. Alger of Middleboro, Mrs. Parker H. Kennedy of Watertown, N. Y., and Miss Polly Stetson of Middleboro, and one son, George W. Stetson, Jr.

The following is taken from the editorial appreciation in the Middleboro Gazette: "Mr. Stetson was essentially a gentleman. Affable, kindly, courteous, broadly tolerant of the. rights and opinions of others, democratic in his tastes and mode of living, he was recognized by all as one of Middleboro's foremost citizens. It is doubtful if the death of any citizen, for many years at least, has called forth so many expressions of genuine regret. As a lawyer he stood high in his profession, and he numbered among his friends many who held a prominent place in legal circles in this commonwealth. He was well versed in historical matters, especially in those pertaining to his early home, and had a remarkable knowledge of the older families. He was a most companionable man, and his friends were legion. He was an excellent raconteur and a pleasing speaker, and was frequently in demand on public occasions, where he acquitted himself with a charm of manner seldom excelled."

And apparently from another pen in the same paper is the following: "To the profession that he adopted he carried all that goes to make up the ideal. The character, the sincerity, the clear thinking, the sympathetic nature, strengthened by research and experience, built up the lawyer that stood in the community as a pillar of strength. His field was a wide one; he was continually wrestling with the problems of others and neglecting the cessations essential to himself. He was honored by his associates, and now it can be said that his profession stands higher because he labored in its name. But above all sparkles the personality of the man. Genial, just, sympathetic, tolerant, humorous, human, with a philosophy that reached from the highest to the lowest, he was a charming man to meet, and so democratic that he could be approached by the humblest."

CLASS OF 1888

News has just come of the death of Charles A. Williams, a non-graduate member of the class of 1888.

Charles Artemas Williams, son of the late Gen. Charles and Ann Augusta (Jackson) Williams, was born in Manchester, N. H., October IS, 1866, and died in Washington, D. C., August 27, 1925, of Bright's disease. He was on his father's side of English descent and on his mother's side of Revolutionary stock.

He fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy, and left college at the end of sophomore year. He was in business with his father in Boston, 1886-1889; in Fort Payne, Ala. 1889- 1891; in New York city, 1892-1896. After this for a time he was manager of the Francestown, N. H., Soapstone Company, and then removed to Fredericksburg, Va., where he made his home and was in a similar business for many years. At the time of his death he was manager of the General Appliance Company of Washington, D. C.

Mr. Williams was married to Anna Amsden of Manchester, January 1, 1890, who survives him. His oldest son, Charles, died in 1918, during the epidemic of influenza, leaving four children. His daughter, Margaret Augusta, is wife of John B. Scott of Fredericksburg. His other son, Oswald, of Washington, is married to Roberta Stevenson of that city.

Mr. Williams was of a notably genial and pleasing personality and of an optimistic and courageous spirit under many turns of fortune. He was liked by all with whom he came in contact and loved by many for his sterling worth and kindly heart. He was a devoted and loving husband and father, and in his home, where he was always happy, he was always the exemplar of pluck, cheer, and unselfishness. In college days he was much beloved. His classmates will rejoice to know that his fine qualities grew finer, and that he lived an unusually brave and manful life.

The sudden death of Luther C. White, in Portland, Oregon, on the first of July, marks the fifth break in the ranks of the class of 1888 in a single year.

He left Washington, D. C., May IS, to preside at the regular May parole meeting held at the McNeil Island penitentiary. On his arrival there he was suffering from sinus and mastoid trouble. His condition was not considered serious, and he left McNeil Island for Portland on the morning of June 28. In Portland he suffered a relapse, and failed rapidly.

Luther Clark White was born at Windsor, Vt., August 16, 1867, the son of Luther Clark and Laura (Kendall) White. He was fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. While in college he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Sphinx, and Phi Beta Kappa. During senior year he was president of the Dartmouth Baseball Association.

At the time of his death White was superintendent of federal prisons, in the Department of Justice. To this conspicuous and useful position his advancement had been a logical one. First came training as an accountant and business man. He was teller in the First National Bank, Windsor, from 1888 to 1890. He was in business in Tennessee and New "York city from 1890 to 189S, a member of the firm of Dartt and Company, coal dealers, 1895-1896, with Stone and Kimball, publishers, 1896-1898, with A. J. Mcintosh and Company, manufacturers, for a short period. He was engaged in public or expert accounting until 1906. For ten years he was general manager of the Amsden Lime Works, Amsden, Vt. In 1913 he was appointed state commissioner of accountancy. White was fond of cities, but for many years he lived happily in one of the quietest hamlets of Vermont, living a busy life, raising good colts and visiting Dartmouth College for amusement.

The next phase in his education was his relation to reformatory and social work, through his efficient service as purchasing agent at the Ossining prison. He became a practical expert in human dealings with delinquent men, and so became fitted to take hold of labor problems with those who are not delinquent. During the World War he was the prized assistant of President E. M. Hopkins in the Bureau of Industrial Relations, at Washington. After the war for two years White was a labor manager for the clothing manufacturers of New York and Boston. During this time he showed remarkable wisdom and tact in settling several grievous strikes. For two years, from 1922 to 1924, White was living, in rather poor health, in Cambridge, Mass., where his only child, Eleanor, a graduate of Wellesley, was studying landscape architecture. In the latter year he was appointed superintendent of prisons.

White was a strong and able personality, who inspired confidence, which his achievements confirmed. In his early life he rather enjoyed seeming a little less earnest than he really was, but he never fooled anyone who really knew him, and he was recognized as a man of strong affections and loyalties. He was cut off in a career that was most promising and needed.

White was survived by his wife, born Emma Chandler, to whom he was married November IS, 1892, and by a daughter. In a recently issued class report he stated that he was building a home in Arlington, Va., "where it may be my declining years will be spent. I hope not. I do not want to spend declining years anywhere. I want to quit when I quit." His wish was fulfilled.

CLASS OF 1889

George Hiram Hitchcock died of nephritis, after a brief illness, at his home in Washington Court House, Ohio, June 12, 1926.

He was born at Mantorville, Minn., Sept. 22, 1867, the only son of George and Harriet (Rowley) Hitchcock. While he was very young his parents moved to Hanover, where he prepared for college under private tutors. He entered and graduated (A.8.) with his class. From 1890 to 1892 he was in the employ of the Garfield National Bank, New York city. He attended the National Law School, Washington, D. C., 1892-94, was admitted to the New Hampshire \bar in 1895, and practiced in Hanover one year. He was with Ginn and Company, Boston, 1896-98; postmaster at Hanover, 1898-1900; resigned and went to Washington Court House, Ohio, and for two or three years was editor of the Cyclone Republican. Illness came, and he was forced to spend fifteen months in 1904-5 in Asheville, N. C. He won his fight against tuberculosis, and returned to Washington Court House in 1905, was credit man for a wholesale grocery house for four years, then was elected clerk of courts and served four years. In 1913 he established himself in the real estate and insurance business, later adding investment securities, and in this work he continued up to the time of his death.

He was a man of broad tastes and took a prominent part in the varied activities of his city, both business and social. He served at one time as city auditor, and was secretary of the Fayette County Fair Company. He was president of the Dutch Treat Club and a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal church, which, as a mission, he was instrumental in having founded several years ago.

One of Hitchcock's outstanding characteristics, from boyhood on, was his happy faculty of making friends and keeping their friendship ever after.

On September 10, 1902, he married Clara Stuckey of Washington Court House, who survives him, with their only child, Hiram, who graduated from Kenyon College in June of this year.

CLASS OF 1897

George Arthur Adams died August 3, 1925. Materials for an obituary notice have not yet been obtained, but we hope to have them in season for the next number of the MAGAZINE.

Henry Wheeler Hardy died May 23, 1926, at the Jordan Hospital, Plymouth, Mass., of pneumonia.

He was born in Salem, Mass., May Ss 1876, his parents being Alvah Truman and Louise Robinson (Wheeler) Hardy, and prepared for college at the high school of that city. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.

He studied law, graduating from the law school of Boston University in 1901. He practiced his profession in Salem for several years, and then became connected with the law partment of the Boston and Albany Railroad, having an office in the South Station in Boston. After taking this position he lived in Melrose for five years, and then removed to Kingston, Mass. When living in Salem, he was a member of the city council in 1907.

June 16, 1909, Mr. Hardy was married to Elspeth, daughter of John Saunders of Andover, Mass., who survives him, with their two children, Henry Wheeler, Jr., now fifteen years old, and Nancy Jean, four.

Mr. Hardy was an amateur song writer. His most successful work was a musical comedy, "Stop and Go," which was given for the Plymouth Woman's Club on April 12 of this year, at their annual guest night. One of the songs was a football song, which is to be dedicated to Dartmouth College.

CLASS OF 1900

Roland Grosvenor Eaton was found dead in his old home in his native town of Danvers, Mass., May sixth. The termination of a twenty years' association with the Library Bureau had occasioned a nervous breakdown which was a contributing cause of death. Eaton is survived by his wife, who was Florence Brown of Danvers, and two sons, Roland Grosvenor and Kenneth Everett.

"Pa" Eaton, as every one called him, was one of the most universally beloved men in 1900, Born and brought up in Danvers, he was the son of a prominent citizen of the town and was used to association with all that is best

Upon coming to Dartmouth he became one of the favored group who christened Crosby Hall. It was a noisy group, in which Eaton maintained position by a quiet dignity, tempered wath joviality rather than by obstreperous good feU lowship. He had the happy faculty of participating in the good times of his fellows without seeming ever to lose control of himself or of his surroundings. Probably that is why he gained the sobriquet ot "Pa". As it was, every one loved and respected him, and he gained whatever social honors were to be had, without any show either of effort or of ambition on his part. His one public office was that of Glee Club manager in his senior year. In this he handled a difficult task with characteristic quietness, yet with a competence which brought unusual success.

As a student he conducted himself precisely as he did in all other capacities, quietly and effectively, without achieving brilliant marks, but always with the evidence of clear thought and sound judgment.

Soon after graduation he entered the employ of the Library Bureau. First in Boston, then in Springfield, and later in Cleveland, Eaton worked steadfastly ahead, making each step a sure one, gaining friendships that were real, a business respect deeply founded on character. More than half his life and most of his fortune he invested in the company which he served.

Then came one of those consolidations, a great affair which set about to gear the patient individual effort of a quarter century to the mechanized apparatus of super-organization. And Eaton, like many another man who had fought under the banner of a quality product with a personalized service, and who had seen victory at hand, suddenly found himself a private in a huge army whose slogan he could not understand. That is one of the tragedies of modern business ; the men who have built the small unit are too often punished rather than rewarded when lesser elements are united into some new and ruthless whole.

That the situation in which he found himself preyed upon Eaton's mind there is no doubt. He left the Library Bureau, left Cleveland, and returned to his old home in Danvers. A motor trip with his son and Henry Teague, during which future plans were discussed, appears to have had no sufficient cheering influence. A man of Eaton's steadfastness does not easily shift the current of his life. To such men death may mean a merciful release from the agony of change.

We may hope so in the case of Roland Eaton; for he has gone, and there are many left to mourn his going; his family, to whom he had pledged years of quiet devotion; his fellow citizens in his home town, among whom he had proved his usefulness by public service; his classmates of 1900, into whose lives he had brought his kindly sympathy, his gentleness, his generous loyalty.

The life and work of Guy Andrews Ham are not easily characterized. Merely to outline the manifold activities and accomplishments of this extraordinary member of the class of 1900 constitutes a task of no small magnitude. To weigh the relative importance of his various undertakings, to appraise the nature of his influence upon this civil and political undertaking and upon that, to analyze his hopes and ambitions -and set over against them the total of his achievement, these are the function of a biographer equipped with ample time, with adequate data, and perhaps above all with the perspective of a distant or impartial view. Guy Ham was, in short, a man of affairs, the most conspicuously in the public eye of any member of the class of 1900.

It is easy enough for any of us to recognize that this distinguished member of our group possessed many of the elements of that quality which men call greatness; we can understand, too, that he maintained a position in the community that entitled him to be viewed with awed respect by many of his fellows; we know that his fearless stand on many questions—political, social, personal—had won him the signal honor

of having enemies. All these matters of history are clear to us; we are proud of their implication, but to no one of us, after all, do facts like these make such vital appeal as do the boyhood memories that throng in upon us now that the ties of old fellowship have been sundered by death.

In his freshman year Guy Ham roomed in Crosby Hall, then a shining new dormitory, whose pristine beauty 1900 helped materially to modify. He had come to Dartmouth from the Boston Latin School, where he had already won distinction as student and speaker.

In the fall of 1896 when first we gathered under the Dartmouth elms, Ham was but eigh- teen years old, for his birth-day was July 8, 1878. His father, Benjamin A. Ham, was a contractor. Perhaps it was from the father that Guy inherited his strength and vigor of character, his unafraidness of men, his untiring aggressiveness along the path of his endeavors.

In the class of 1900 he won his place by his exercise of these traits and by the display of unmistakably manifest abilities. Geniality, in the sense of easy goodfellowship, of companionability in idle pleasuring, or of clever flattery, was not with him an outstanding characteristic. What he believed, he said; what he said he stood by with an inflexibility astounding to the general run of easy-going freshmen. He was different from the rest of us because he was greater than almost any other one of us, but he had to live down the fact.

Had there been any smallness in his nature or hint of ungenerousness, any touch of revengefulness, he might have had a hard time. But he was big, very big, and as he went his way, friendly always, approachable always, but aloof from much of the class juvenility and its expression in sheer nonsense and occasional dissipation, he increasingly impressed both class and college with the realization of his bigness.

Fraternally he was first a member of DKE. In senior year he was a member of both Casque and Gauntlet and Palaeopitus. He engaged mildly in athletics, and was active in dramatics, participating in several college plays and acting as president of the Dramatic Club in junior and senior years.

As a scholar Guy Ham's rank was high in all his studies. It was notably so .in his favorite fields of English composition and oratory, in which he won half a dozen important prizes. He won membership in Phi Beta Kappa, was awarded honors in history, upheld the reputation of Dartmouth in many intercollegiate debates, and when graduation day came thrilled all of us with his powerful delivery of a really noble oration.

Long before that time he had conquered any opposition which he may have earlier encountered in the student body. He was admired and respected by all. Those who knew him best loved him best. They, perhaps, were the only ones who knew that the tirelessness of their friend was spiritual rather than physical, and that the body that harbored his flaming soul was often dangerously weary and oppressed.

After college he entered Harvard Law School and the pursuit of political service. While still a law student Guy Ham was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. His excellent legal mind, his ability as a prosecutor, his impeccable integrity were everywhere conspicuous. In 1904 he was appointed third assistant United States district attorney, serving the government in this capacity during four years.

Meanwhile his trustworthiness as a political adviser and his great gifts as a speaker won him preferment within the ranks of his party. In 1913 he became a member of the Governor's Council. Four years later he was prominent as candidate for the office of lieutenant governor, but was defeated by . Calvin Coolidge.

And during these years the demands of private business had been forcing him gradually out of politics. He was gaining a place as a banker, first as president of the Stoughton Trust Company, then as director of the Boulevard Trust Company, of the Massachusetts Company, and of the Medford Trust Company. He was once president of the Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Company, and a director of the New England Casualty Company. Latterly he became founder and president of the Citizens National Bank.

In addition to these strictly business associations. Guy Ham found time to become a 32d degree Mason, to assume the duties of membership in the Chamber of Commerce and the Bar Association, and to participate valuably in the affairs of his immediate community.

He had been but four years out of college when he married, his wife being Anna Hellberg of Anamosa, lowa. Five children were born to him and his wife during the next ten years: Geraldine Louise, born February 9, 1905; Ruth Madeline, November 22, 1906; Evelyn Walters, February 21, 1908; Guy Andrews, Jr., September 26, 1909; Kenneth Rankin, November 29, 1914.

The family home, a large and delightful dwelling, was in Milton, Mass., and somehow, in spite of all his public occupation, Guy Ham found time to be, not only in semblance but in truth, a devoted husband, a wise and affectionate father.

For more than a year previous to his last illness he had not been well. An attack of pneumonia during the past winter had menaced his life. More by power of mind than of body he had overcome it. Then in late spring he attended a Masonic convention in the South, caught further cold on his northward journey, and was again attacked by pneumonia. Those of us who knew the facts realized that our valiant classmate was battling vainly in his last encounter. On the twenty-third day of May he died.

So in his forty-eighth year passed Guy Andrews Ham, with more than an average lifetime's accomplishment to his credit, yet with the full promise of his great capabilities unfulfilled, and with the dreams of his great ambitions unsatisfied. But we shall remember him as with us of old, our champion in contests of thought and word upon the college rostrum, our prophet interpreting our boyish hopes and aims and glorifying them in a golden flow of oratory, and, best of all, our classmate and good companion who sang with us on springtide nights under the campus stars.

CLASS OF 1903

Harold Edwin Kellner died January 21, 1926, at his home in Bloomfield, N. J. The cause of his death was blood poisoning from a slight operation on his nose, and he was ill but eight days.

He was born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 27, 1880, and prepared for college at the Allen School, Newton, Mass. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.

He left college in junior year, and was for many years in business in Nswark, N. J. . He was then in Chicago for a time, but had not forig' before his death returned to New Jersey.

August 14, 1909, he was married to Blanche E. Koch, who survives him, with their only child a daughter.

CLASS OF 1907

ALBION Ross NICKERSON {By a Classmate)

Out of a clear sky on Saturday, July 3, came the sad news that Nick had just been accidentally killed by an electric shock, at Franconia, N. H. It was only a few days before that I had been talking with him by telephone and agreed to meet, and play with him, some time this summer. Several times during the last spring and summer, I had been hearing of him from various guests returning from Peckett's on Sugar Hill, who had been captivated, some anew and some for the first time, by his sparkling personality. He remained to the last the same old Nick, a little older, perhaps a little more subdued, but filled with the same boyish enthusiasm, the same love of life, and radiating the same abundance of good nature. So sudden was the blow that removed him from our midst that it is all but impossible to realize that we shall not see him more.

Nick's was a rare personality. Full of life, and with a boy's love for mischief, he was a leader in our college pranks, but his was the level head that restrained us when enthusiasm tempted us to go too far. With his irrepressible spirits and his love of adventure, he was constantly making and having experiences and they lost nothing by the telling. A rare story teller, he could and often did hold us spellbound until the wee small hours of the morning with the stories of his experiences. Blessed with a keen sense- of humor and with a ready wit that chastened and subdued at times, but did not leave a sting, he was a wonderful companion. A real lover of nature, he was essentially an outdoors man. Outdoor sports were his recreation, and the rugged honesty of the hills his outstanding characteristic. There was no sham or pretense in him and none could more quickly or more thoroughly expose it in others. And underneath his ready wit, his rugged honesty, his positive loyalty, he hid that strain of shyness so often characteristic of the man who has spent much time in the open, and which, combined with a homely philosophy of life, constituted one of his most lovable characteristics. For Nick's was a lovable character. Essentially a man's man, he nevertheless had the rare faculty of inspiring real affection.

Royal entertainer that he was and with his love for the outdoors, he naturally turned, when he left college, to the resort business. Shortly after graduation, he became associated with Peckett's on Sugar Hill, an all-year resort business in Franconia, N, H. There he remained except for the period of the war, arid there he was working for the comfort of expected guests when the end came. It was inevitable that his efforts in this direction should meet with a large measure of success. His was the guiding hand and his the leading spirit in all forms of organized outdoor sports and entertainments; and his personality had laid hold on the many guests with whom he had come in contact and made them his friends. It seems altogether fitting that when his call came, it should find him working for somebody's else comfort, and equally fitting that he should be laid at rest (as he was) among his boyhood surroundings at Swanville, Maine.

In 1918, Nick worked for the Emergency Fleet Corporation at Fore River, Mass., until he entered the Harvard Unit of the Students' Army Training Corps at Cambridge.

His family have lost a loyal son, a loving brother, and a good husband, and there is a place in the hearts of his business associates and his hosts of friends that it will be impossible to fill.

To many of us, Franconia can never be the same, so entirely had he become a part of our conception of it. It was nothing short of inspiration that prompted the reading at his funeral of the following paraphrase of Hovey's wonderful poem,—so peculiarly appropriate is the language and so comforting the thought that when we return to Franconia, we shall know that:

"He had the still north in his heart, The hill winds in his breath, And the granite of New Hampshire Was made part of him till death. The still north remembers him, The hill winds know his name, And the granite of New Hampshire Keeps the record of his fame."

To his many friends, the death of Ralph Crosby Herrick, at his home on Hopkins St., Reading, Mass., on Sunday morning, May 23, 1926, brought a sense of personal loss. A genhost, a true friend, of cheerful disposition, he was loved by all with whom he came in contact. He was forty-one years of age.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Herrick, his early life was spent in Winchester, Mass., where he was born on January 1, 1885. He attended the public schools, graduating from the Winchester High School with the class of 1903. In common with a number of Winchester boys of that time, he went to Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1907. He was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity.

After graduating from college, ior a time he was associated with Lee, Higginson and Company, and later with Smith-Patterson Company, but on account of ill health, went to Hollis, N. H., where he was engaged in the raising of poultry and fruit. While in Hollis he was active in civic affairs, serving the town as moderator. During that time, he also interested himself in many other activities of the town.

After regaining his health, he moved to Reading, and was engaged in the real estate business with the firm of Edward T. Harrington Company at the time of his death. He was a member of the Congregational church at Reading.

In November, 1911, he married Miss Florence Guething of Winchester, who survives him, with two children, Roger William, aged 9, and Jane Herrick, aged 7. His father, and a sister, Mrs. Philip R. Webber of Pittsburgh, also survive him.

Funeral services were held on Tuesday-afternoon at his late residence, 11 Hopkins St., Reading, conducted by the Rev. Payson E. Pierce, pastor of the Reading Congregational church. At the services, were members of his class at Dartmouth and of his fraternity, business associates, and many of his friends and neighbors. Interment was in Wildwood cemetery in Winchester.

CLASS OF 1915

Timothy Edwin Anderson died at the sanitorium at South Hanson, Mass., June 1, 1926, of tuberculosis.

He was born in Blackstone, Mass., July 10, 1893, his parents being Timothy and Hannah (Fitzpatrick) Anderson, and prepared for college at Middleboro High School, Kjs home being then in Middleboro, where his father died last winter. He took the Thayer School course in senior year, and graduated from the Thayer School in 1916.

Immediately after graduation from the Thayer School he took a position as draftsman with the American Bridge Company at Edge Moor, Del. After six months he was obliged to give up his work there by an attack of poliomyelitis, and was for nearly five years unable to work. In July, 1921, he took a position with the New England Structural Company at Everett, Mass., going later to the Boston Structural Company in Cambridge. In November, 1924, he entered the service of the Palmer Steel Company of Springfield, Mass. After three months he contracted pleurisy, and was sick for three months in Springfield. In April he returned to Middleboro, and in November, 1925, went to the sanatorium where his last months were spent.

October 10, 1922, he was married to Dora, daughter of Andrew and Katherine Lavallee of Middleboro, who survives him, with their son, Paul, who was born February 25, 1924.

CLASS OF 1921

Carl Bache-Wiig, Jr., a member of this class during a large part of the course, died May 30, 1926, of tuberculosis at St. Joseph's Sanitarium Albuquerque, New Mexico.

He was born in Edisvold, Norway, November 18, 1897. John Bache-Wiig 'l5 is a brother.

He served in the Navy in 1918-19, and ill health dating from that service brought on the fatal disease.

CLASS OF 1922

Ralph Callow Springborn died at Saranac Lake, N. Y., May 14, 1926.

He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, June 8, 1898, the son of William John and Jessie Alice (Callow) Springborn. He attended the public schools in Cleveland and in New Bedford, Mass., where the family removed in 1914. He graduated from New Bedford High School in 1917 and from Worcester Academy in 1918. He was a member of Zeta Psi. In the spring of 1921 he was stricken with influenza, and was obliged to leave college, returning in the fall of that year. In February, 1923, he received the degree of Bachelor of Science as of the class of 1922.

He joined his father in New York city, and entered his office as secretary of the Davis Incinerator Company, Inc., a firm which erected large and small units for the incineration of garbage, rubbish, and other waste materials. He suffered a sudden physical breakdown in May, 1925, and the following month went to Saranac Lake to recover his health. He improved during the summer months, but again failed slowly during the winter and spring.

He was a member of the Zeta Psi Club and the Dartmouth Club of New York. He is survived by his father, his sister, Mrs. Robert S. Morris of Cleveland, and his brother, Harold William Springborn '24.

Funeral services were held May 17 in the Wade Memorial Chapel, Cleveland, and interment was made in the family lot in Lake View Cemetery. Howard W. Shattuck '22 was one of the pallbearers.

Olin Henderson, a member of this class during freshman year, died February 24, 1926, at the Wentworth Hospital, Dover, N. H., from spinal meningitis, after a short illness.

He was born in Rochester, N. H., January 13, 1899, the son of Leon C. and Alice (Hodgdon) Henderson, and prepared for college at Rochester High School. At the end of freshman year he transferred to Harvard, where he graduated in 1922. His home through life has been always in Rochester, where his parents still live.