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

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION

At the regular weekly luncheon of the Southern California Association, held Tuesday, January 11, a motion was unanimously adopted in which the president of the Association was instructed to write a letter to Professor Malcolm Keir, conveying the Association's regret that the resumption of his regular faculty work made it necessary for Professor'Keir to leave Southern California, and attempting to express in some degree to the Professor the regard the members of the Southern California Association held for him, following his recent extended stay in their midst.

Professor Keir has been a Southern California visitor during the last six months, making his headquarters in Pasadena. Except for brief periods, when he was studying conditions in San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest, Professor Keir was unfailing in his attendance each Tuesday at the weekly luncheon meetings of the Southern California Association. He was of much help to the Association in meetings with preparatory school boys who are planning to enter Dartmouth in the next year or two, and he gave several most interesting talks before the Association on the occasion of several special meetings.

The following letter has been sent to Professor Keir :. Professor Malcolm Keir, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Dear Doctor Keir :

I have a very pleasant duty to perform. At our regular weekly meeting, on January 11 last, your absence was noted and there were many questions concerning your whereabouts, in view of the fact that you have not missed a meeting with us for several months. When I told the fellows that you had returned to college to take up your regular work, there were expressions of regret on every side.

The discussion resulted in a formal motion instructing me to write you concerning our regret that you had to leave us to return to college. I was instructed to emphasize to you that it is only because you are returning to Hanover that you are in any way forgiven. I was further instructed to tell you that we have enjoyed greatly having you with us during these last six months, have found you as true a Dartmouth man as any of us who have been undergraduates there, and hope that you may make another visit to us in the not distant future.

I regard this as a most pleasant duty, as indicated above. The real difficult, thing about it, however, is the rather hopeless task of setting down on paper any real measure of the regard we have for you through the most pleasant associations that have developed in the course of your Southern California stay.

With all good wishes, Yours faithfully, C. G. MILHAM. President Southern California Association of Dartmouth College.

A plan to accumulate a fund for emergencies affecting any of its members, such as illness or accident, has recently been adopted by the Southern California Association. Mention of it is made here so that the idea may be perhaps adopted by other alumni associations to fit their needs.

Under the plan that is now in effect in Southern California, the attention of the alumni attending the regular weekly luncheons of the Association is called occasionally to a small box that is in the custody of Roland Foss '19 and Leon Rothschild '24. The box is intended to receive sums from a nickel up that any alumnus cares to put into it. It is so arranged that only the donor knows the amount that goes into the box at any time, and the two custodians are charged with seeing to it that the identity of those contributing or not contributing to the box is never disclosed.

In effect, the box is intended to make possible what, for lack of a better name at the time the custom was originated, is to be known as the "Freewill Offering Fund of the Southern California Association." It was emphasized in instituting it, that there is never to be at any time any request made to members of the Association to contribute to it. They are to be advised about the box occasionally, as said above, but in every instance it is to be emphasized. that only voluntary contributions are to be made of no set amount, but entirely according to the feeling of the donor concerned.

''The free-will part of it cannot be overemphasized," said C. G. Milham '06, president of the Association, at the time the matter came up. "'lf fellows thought they had to give to the fund, this might result in a hardship on some of the younger men. The fact is, that we ought to have a reserve fund for emergencies. And I believe that we can build this up through entirely freewill offerings. This means that there will never be any announcement concerning who does and who does not give, and it means also that no one will ever know whether a nickel or $5.00 is given. The custodian will be charged with seeing that there is never any discussion concerning amounts. The amount that may be contributed verjr week will be banked, and an announcement of the funds on hand will be made every two or three months. At all times and in every way possible, it will be emphasized that voluntary contributions only are desired, and no one will ever, under any circumstances, be asked to contribute."

NEW YORK ASSOCIATION

Four hundred and twenty-five Dartmouth men met at the Hotel Plaza on the evening of January 12 to attend the annual dinner of the New York Alumni Association.

Dean Laycock and Professor Griggs representing the College were the principal speakers of the evening. The latter was introduced as "Professor of Nature and Dartmouth Out- of-Doors," and with his characteristic humor told of the part that Hanover's environment and the Outing Club have played in moulding Dartmouth character.

Dean Laycock carried with him fresh embers from the hearth of Hanover to add to the one with which he dedicated the New York Club. He touched on the different phases of administrative activity and told of the developments which were being made in both the College curriculum and equipment. Tribute was paid to the New York group for three important contributions to Dartmouth during the past year—the Dick Hall House through the generosity of E. K. Hall, Rip Heneage as supervisor of athletics, and the Dartmouth Club of New York.

President Woodbridge acted as toastmaster, and reported on the activities of the Association during the past year. Chief among these were the opening of the Dartmouth Club last fall, special train to the Yale game, and the annual play and dance. Announcement was made that the entertainment committee would present a vaudeville show at the Club on the evening of February S. The Musical Clubs will take the place of The Players at this year's function.

At the business meeting the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: C. H. Hathaway '07, president; D. B. O'Connor '12, vice-president; B. B. Greer '01, vice-president; O. H. Hicks '21, secretary and treasurer. A. M. Garcia '12, T. W. Towler '13, and G. H. Chamberlaine '21 were chosen as new members of the board of governors, and H. S. Baketel, Jr. '2O was elected to the nominating committee. A rising vote of appreciation was given W. F. Kimball '11, the retiring secretary, for the unceasing effort which he has expended in behalf of the Association during the past two years.

Entertainment throughout the evening was furnished by local Dartmouth talent. Fred Child 'IS rendered several vocal selections, and Charles Griffith 'IS played two violin solos. Both were accompanied by Walter Golde '10. The Curbstone Four—Roger Bird '21, Ed Earle '19, Mos Hubert '23, and Bill Cruger— presented some new quartet numbers. Werner Janssen '21 was unable to appear as scheduled, owing to the opening of his latest production in Hartford.

Enthusiasm ran high during the entire evening. The classes, grouped together throughout the room, vied with each other in Wah- Hoo-Wahs. 1921 with 26 members present set the record attendance and volume. The singing of "Men of Dartmouth" brought the program to a close after an evening of good food, fine music, excellent speeches, and Dartmouth fellowship.

ORTON H. HICKS

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLUB OF NEW YORK

January saw a very considerable increase in the use of the Club by the resident and nonresident members. Additional men signing up for membership brought the resident list above 600, and the non-resident list within hailing distance of 300.

Open house New Year's Day brought out a fairly large number, who, however, for the most part seemed content to sink into easy chairs and pick up a cat nap or two. The usual class dinners were rather submerged by the annual dinner of the Alumni Association. February will be a large month, with but two open nights and with a Club vaudeville show tossed in for good measure, and a bridge tournament in prospect. The Dartmouth-Columbia basketball game will be preceded by dinner parties, as was the Princeton hockey game.

Professors Bill, Lingley, Heneage, (this adds prestige to Rip, no doubt,) Laycock, Fletcher, Marsden, and Griggs came down for varying lengths of time, assisted by Sid Hayward, Bob Strong, Bob Breyfogle, and Bill McCarter. Every visit of a frater in doctoribus is a signal for the assemblage of a crowd in the office of the Club hardly conducive to business but most acceptable and productive of home town gossip.

Chicago is beginning to loom up on the register. John Redington, Jess Hawley, Paul Moyer, Jim Vail, Roy and Jimmy Rubel, Charles C. Merrill, and H. S. Card are among those who came, saw, and stayed around a while. Herb Uline from Minneapolis, W. L. Baldwin from Louisiana, Chuck Emerson from Boston, Irv French from the same village are just culled at random from the book. All in all the room business was nearly 15% greater in January than in December.

Undoubtedly the largest single party which the Club entertained during the month was Joe Gilman, who approved of the beds. Greater praise hath no man.

It seems too bad to harp on one thing so much, but it is a fact that the Club could use to particular advantage pictures of Hanover in all its phases, and possibly some of the wives who have wiped dust off old football and baseball pictures for years may feel the urge to ship them down to 24 East 38th St., where they are assured of respectful attention.

And meantime the Club continues to be the Dartmouth cross roads where more paths meet than anywhere else, with the honorable exception of Hanover itself.

DARTMOUTH CLUB OF DETROIT

At the recent election of officers of the Dartmouth Club of Detroit Philip K. Watson '19 was elected president and Ford H. Whelden '25 secretary-treasurer. The Club was extremely unfortunate in losing President George H. (Dutch) Schildmiller '09, All-American end on the great 'O9 team. "Dutch" is moving to Buffalo, and we rejoice in his business promotion, but hate to have him leave our midst.

The Dartmouth Club of Detroit had playby-play reports by special wire of the Yale, Harvard, Brown, and Cornell games, and was delighted in seeing how happy those reports made our guests from the rival institutions! Being big-hearted, we remembered the previous season had been extremely good to us.

The Club gave its eighth annual Christmas dance on December 29 at the Detroit Boat Club. Previous to the dance a dinner was served at the Boat Club for Dartmouth alumni, undergraduates, and their guests. One hundred and fifty-four people were served. Ford Whelden '25 was chairman, and was given great assistance by F. James Bear 'l9, P. K. Watson '19, Joseph A. Vance '2l, Frederick D- Bornman '21, and Maurice Quint '25. The Club now has 62 names on its list, and with more Detroit men entering Dartmouth each year it is hoped that the membership may soon reach 100. A luncheon is held every Tuesday noon at the Book-Cadillac Hotel. These luncheons are very popular, and the attendance has been steadily increasing.

On January 21 a stag dinner is being held at the Island View Hotel across the river in Riverside, Ontario. Canada offers certain inducements not to be obtained even in "wide open" Detroit. The dinner will be followed by bridge, poker, etc. L. F. Turnbull '23 is chairman of the affair.

Among the recent Dartmouth men to take up residence in Detroit are James W. Taylor '2l, W. H. Shipton '22, James Hutton '24, Charles French '24, John Per Lee '25, John F. Moloney 'IS, John Paisley '23, and L. M. Veach '25.

Ford H. Whelden

Secretary,

ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHWEST

The Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Northwest held its annual dinner at the Minneapolis Club, Minneapolis, Minn., on January 31, 1927. The dinner was well attended, some sixty-five alumni and fathers of present and prospective students were present.

The University of Minnesota trio, consisting of piano, violin, and cello, entertained the boys with their music and their smiles. Red Loudon appeared to be particularly impressed with their—musical talent. A Grantland Rice film of "Dartmouth Out Doors" and a football picture of the 1924 season held our attention for about half an hour.

President Bardwell presided. Henry Thrall gave us a picture of the inner workings of the Alumni Council. It was interesting and instructive. Professor L. B. Richardson of the College was the principal speaker of the evening. He pointed out the aims and objects of the College and the duties imposed upon the alumni, faculty, and student body. He particularly emphasized the need of inspirational teaching. If Professor Richardson's speech is any criterion of what he offers the student body daily then he must practice what he preaches. The following officers were elected for the coming year: president, H. E. Atwood 1913; vice-president, D. H. Ankeny 1921; secretary, W. T. Middlebrook 1912; assistant secretary, R. E. Maxwell 1923; treasurer, Ryland Roths- child 1921. The executive committee consists of Dewey Gruenhagen, Warren Ege, Eugene Gluek, and Waltman Walters.

PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION

The annual business meeting and dinner of the Philadelphia Alumni Association was held at the Hotel Walton, January 26th. Our guest of the evening was Professor Charles R. Lingley, who spoke very interestingly about the various phases of the college life at the present time. Several members spoke quite briefly about their student days.

The following officers were elected to serve until the next annual dinner: president, S. S. Rutherford '08; vice-president, S. S. Larmon '14; secretary, H. Davidson '14; treasurer, F. S. Balch '19; executive committee, G. E. Chamberlain '10, H. H. Budd '15, R. R. Britton '17.

The secretary was requested to send a letter of greeting to President Hopkins and also to Rev. J. E. Johnson, who for so many years has taken such deep interest in the local association and the activities of the Outing Club.

NECROLOGY

CLASS OF 1866

We have learned through the courtesy of Major E. D. Redington of Chicago, secretary of the class of 1861, that our classmate Lewis Lionel Wood passed away January 15, 1927. We have had no particulars.

Wood was born in Calais, Vt., February 13, 1842, the son of Lewis and Olive (Lamb) Wood. He fitted for college at Morrisville and

Barre, Vt. After his graduation, he was for a short time superintendent of schools at East Jackson, Mich. He then studied law in Detroit, and received the degree of LL.B. in 1869 from the University of Michigan. This same year he went to Chicago, where he has been up to very recent years engaged in financial and legal matters.

In 1894 he married Jennie C. Clark of Chicago. We understand that there are no surviving children.

Wood was the prophet of the class on Class Day. He was a good student, a fine class man, a companionable classmate, and entered with spirit into all of our class activities.

He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity.

HENRY WHITTEMORE, Secretary.

CLASS OF 1873

Joseph Sidney Moulton, whose death is here recorded, was born April 13, 1852, in Plainfield, N. H. He was the son of Stephen R. and Sarah (Noyes) Moulton. After his early years in the district schools, he entered Kimball Union Academy, remaining there for six years, and graduating in the summer of 1869. Entering Dartmouth that fall, he continued his studies uninterruptedly in the classical course, and graduated with his class. He was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Always retiring and even shy in manner, he mingled little with others, yet was heartily liked and greatly esteemed.

Although he had united with the Trinitarian Congregational church of Meriden, N. H., in 1870, he transferred his allegiance to the Unitarian denomination, and in the fall of 1873 he entered the divinity school of Harvard University. Graduating there on completion of the three years' course, he became stated supply of the Unitarian church in Westford, Mass., and on June 12, 1878, a council of churches ordained him to the work of the ministry, and installed him pastor of this church. After a successful pastorate there of eight years, he accepted a call to the Unitarian church in Stow, Mass., where for forty-one years he continued his quiet, helpful service, the ideal old-time New England pastorate, a self-denying, upright, blessed influence. At his resignation, in recognition of his long period of usefulness, the people made him pastor emeritus of the church. He was for years chaplain of the Stow Grange, for twenty years superintendent of schools, and twenty years ago founded the Civic Club. He was a member of the Town Improvement Society and of the Twentieth Century Club of Boston. Through his efforts the World War memorial was erected on the Stow Com- mon. Yet he was so modest and retiring that even his nearest friends hardly felt that they knew him. That he valued the old ties, how- ever, is proved by the fact that at every class reunion we were sure that we should meet Moulton, and be greeted by his well-remem- bered kindly smile. A friend has written that he was evidently preparing the memoirs of his long life of service, for among his papers was found after his death such a manuscript. He wrote to his class secretary a few years ago: "So many have gone! I wonder why I am left. And sometimes I want to steal away, and dis- cover what the future may be like!" He had his wish, and knows all about it now.

After he relinquished his work in Stow, he moved to Plaistow, N. H., where he made his home with his niece, Mrs. Car! R. Lloyd of that place. He had been very frail since last Thanksgiving, only leaving the house to go for a ride in Mr. Lloyd's car. On Saturday, January 22, 1927, he was very weak and ill all day long. The next day he suffered a paralytic shock, and died in the afternoon of Monday. He had suffered for some time from valvular heart trouble and lung induration. The funeral service was held January 26, at the home of his niece. Besides representatives of other Unitarian churches, twenty-five of his former people of Stow attended the service in a body. The family lot is at Meriden, N. H., and there, in his native town of Plainfield, the interment will take place in the spring, when the body will be removed from the vault in Haverhill, Mass. Two of his favorite hymns were sung at the funeral, "Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blest," and "Master, no offering, costly and sweet."

CLASS OF 1874

John Adams Aiken died January 28, in Baltimore, Md., of pneumonia, after an illness of

a few days. He was born in Greenfield, Mass., September 16, 1850, the son of David and Mary Elizabeth (Adams) Aiken. His father., a Dartmouth graduate of 1830, was for many years one of the leaders of the bar of the Connecticut valley. He fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy, and was for three years a member of the class of 1873. He then taught for a year at Northfield, Mass., and returned to college, entering the class of '74 at the beginning of its senior year. He was a member of Psi Upsilon, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.

After graduation he resumed in his father's office the law studies which he had already begun, took the year 1875-6 at Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He began practice at Greenfield in partnership with his father, a relation which continued until the latter's death in 1895.

A. strong love for nature early led him to become interested in agricultural development, and for two years from 1877 he served as secretary of the Franklin County Agricultural Society. In 1883 he represented his district in the lower house of the state legislature. His personal popularity was attested in 1889, when, though a Democrat, he was elected district attorney for the Northwestern District of the state, a region strongly Republican in politics. This office he held from 1890 to 1897, and he gained a wide reputation for justice and ability. September 16, 1898, he became justice of the Superior Court of the state by appointment of Governor Wolcott, a Republican. In January, 1905, he was elevated to the position of chief justice, and rendered able and distinguished service until May, 1922, when because of ill health he was forced to tender his resignation. During his long career on the bench he presided at many of the most important trials in the Massachusetts courts, and when he left public life it was with a record of brilliant service in the cause of justice.

His personal charm and consideration for the rights of everyone appearing before him won him many friends. He had a keen sense of humor, and his witticisms were repeated many times by the hearers with chuckles of delight. Perhaps his greatest hobby was his love for flowers. At one time, a writer said of him, "Judge Aiken is the most skilful amateur gardener in Franklin county." In one end of the barn on his estate he had for years an office and library for his garden work. He had a fine collection of books dealing with floriculture.

Judge Aiken always took an active interest in the affairs of his home town, and served as a member of the board of park commissioners for many years. He was for some time president of the Greenfield Library Association. He was a member of the Union Club of Boston and the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1906 Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.

March 29, 1895, he was married to Maria Willard Dickinson of Baltimore, Md„ who survives him. They have had no children.

CLASS OF 1876

Rev. Carter Eastman Cate died at his home in Edgewood, R. 1., January 18, 1927, after a painful illness of nine months with disease of the liver.

The son of Benjamin and Eliza Abigail (Wells) Cate, he was born in Loudon, N. H., August 26, 1852. He prepared for college at Tilton (N.H.) Seminary, and took the first two years of his college course at Wesleyan, whence he came to Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.

After graduation he studied theology for a short time at Boston University, and then entered the ministry of the Free Baptist churches, where his lifework has been done. The first church served was that in his native town, whence he soon went to Lakeport, N. H., and in 1882 to the Mt. Vernon Street church in Lowell, Mass. In 1884 he became pastor of the Main Street church in Lewiston, Me., which is the college church of Bates College. In 1888 he went to the Winter Street church in Haverhill, Mass., where he remained to September, 1890. For a few months he was again with his former church in Lowell, Mass., and then at Plymouth church, Portland, Me., from March, 1891, to December, 1896. Then came his longest pastorate, that of Roger Williams church, Providence, R. 1., from December, 1896, to June, 1910. He then spent some time in travel and study abroad, mainly in Germany, returning to this country in March, 1912. His last pastorate was at Edgewood, R. 1., which began in 1914, and closed some years ago. Bates College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1898, a worthy honor to one who was then and had long been prominent in the affairs of his denomination and highly successful in its ministry.

May 1, 188-3, Dr. Cate was married to Electa Ann Dunavan of Lakeport, N. H., who survives him, with three children: Mrs. Evelyn Getchell of Edgewood, Benjamin Harold, and Arthur William, the two latter being graduates of Brown in 1911 and 1914 respectively.

CLASS OF 1878

Rev. Edwin Huntington Stickney, D. D„ died at his home in Fargo, N. D., January 28, 1927, after an illness of some weeks.

Dr. Stickney was born at Campton, N. H., October 10, 1853, son of Benjamin and Phoebe (Pulsifer) Stickney. He prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy. As was not uncommon in those days, he taught a term of school every winter but one while in college. After graduation he entered Andover Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1881, going almost immediately to home missionary work at Detroit City, Minn., where he remained until (1885) he was transferred to Dakota. There he has been engaged in similar work ever since. From 1891 to 1909 he was superintendent for the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society for the then new state of North Dakota, and from the latter date until his retirement at the age limit in 1921 he combined the superintendency of that society with that of the Home Missionary Society for the state. In this work of establishing and maintaining Congregational churches and Sunday schools, as one of his intimate associates says, "he manifested a tireless energy, an enthusiasm that never got cold, a dogged perseverance and determination, an entirely sincere and thorough consecration, an abundance of good nature, hearty sympathy, and cooperation, and a plentiful supply of 'horse sense.'"

In this long period of state-wide service he acquired a large acquaintance and a wide influence. On the occasion of his retirement he was paid a remarkable tribute. During his period of service he had seen the number of churches in his field grow from four to two hundred and thirty. He was one of the founders of Fargo College, and served until his death on its board of trustees, most of the time as its secretary. He was also a director of Chicago Theological Seminary. He was accorded the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Fargo College in 1910, and by Dartmouth in 1914.

Mrs. Stickney, who was Miss Laura H. Washburn of Orford, N. H., joined her fortunes with his in 1881, and throughout the long service has contributed largely to his success. She and their three children survive him. The older son, Park W. (B. S. 'OB, C. E. '09) is a prominent engineer in Philadelphia, and the younger, George E., has just been called from the pastorate of a prominent Congregational church in Jacksonville, 111., to that of the First Congregational church, Beloit, Wis. The latter, and the daughter, Bertha C., who resides with her mother, were educated at Fargo College. Dr. Stickney was always loyal to Dartmouth and to his class, in spite of his intimate relations to other institutions, and he was one of those prompt correspondents who lend so much cheer to the class secretary. A characterization by the same intimate associate quoted above will appeal to his classmates as thoroughly just; "Not a brilliant man, not a great pulpit orator, a good scholar and thinker though not conspicuously so, he had wonderful qualities for success in the field where he labored for more than forty years. His business sagacity and executive ability were remarkable, at least for one in his profession. He never had time to make much money for himself, but died possessed of a modest competence. He will be missed. There are too few men like him in the world."

CLASS OF 1880

In the notice of the late Oscar G. Mclntire in the last number of the MAGAZINE, the place of his birth was given as Hollis, Me., the General Catalogue being followed as an authority. It appears that he was actually born in Dayton, Me., and the correction is here made that the place may be correctly given in future records.

CLASS OF 1881

Walter Brooks died at his home in St. Albans, Vt., January 26, 1927, after a short illness.

He was born at St. Albans Bay, Vt., May 4, 1857, his parents being Julius H. and Elizabeth A. (Greene) Brooks. He was connected with the class for only a part of freshman year.

After leaving college he engaged in farming at his native place, and successfully pursued that occupation through his active life. A few years since he left the farm and moved into the city.

November 27, 1888, Mr. Brooks was married to Add,ie Gallagher, who survives him, with three children, Lucius J.. Mildred A., and Frederick B. Another daughter died in infancy.

Mr. Brooks was a member of the Congregational church of St. Albans.

CLASS OF 1882

Americus Bendelari died at a hospital in Cambridge, Mass., December 30, 1926. The son of August and Josephine Bendelari, he was born in Boston, Mass., July 10, 1857. He came to college from New York city, where he had fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department at Columbia High School. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)

Following graduation, he studied engineering at Columbia for a year, and then was engaged in construction work on the New York, West Shore, and Buffalo R. R., and later with the Southern Pennsylvania R. R. For this latter road he had the construction of tunnels under the Blue and Kittatinny mountains. His health at this time began to fail, and he went to Paris, France, where his family then resided. On his return he gave up his profession 011 account of impaired health, and engaged successfully in business as a traveling salesman, but his health again practically put him on the retired list, and he was never afterwards able either to engage in his profession or to continue with the mercantile house.

His older brother, George Bendelari, was one of the editors of the New York Sun, and Americus made his home with him in Brooklyn. For the last few years he had lived with a sister in Cambridge. He was never married.

CLASS OF 1887

A biographical notice of the late Professor Fred Parker Emery was given in another department of the MAGAZINE in the February issue. To this may be added the following appreciation from the pen of a classmate: ''The childhood shows the man,

As morning shows the day," perhaps might be more truly said of Emery than of any other man of '87. In college, friendly with and interested in all his classmates, he cultivated intimacy only with those whose tastes, pursuits, and personalities were congenial. Interested in all college activities and willing to attempt whatever was asked of him by his fellows, he was primarily concerned with his education, early and to the extent possible in those days specializing in English.

He was a "born" teacher, as distinguished from the type of scholar who seeks knowledge for itself or for himself, or the scientist or author who advances knowledge or creates beauty, but leaves to others the dissemination of that which he brings into being. The quickness of his mental grasp, his retentive memory, his love for English pure and undefiled, the wide range of his reading and his interest in what others had written rather than in creative work—like Themis a jealous mistress—and especially his knowledge of and sympathy with youth made it inevitable that he should be a teacher.

Few men of the class were as fortunate as he in life and work. All his life he did the work he loved best to do. After a few preliminary years in other institutions, coming back to Dartmouth he thenceforward lived and worked where he loved best to be, and his devotion to Dartmouth and Dartmouth men was proven by his refusal more than once to be tempted to go elsewhere.

Most fortunate in his marriage, his home was a center of attraction, hospitality, and good fellowship for his friends of his own time and earlier and of the college generations following down to the present. He had to an unusual degree the respect and affection of his students—the highest reward of the successful teacher.

Professor Emery's death, following so closely upon that of Dr. Gile, his classmate and his fellow townsman in youth and in maturity, brings particular sorrow to members of '87. In the years that these men lived and worked in Hanover their homes were rallying points for the class, and they the links between the College and their scattered classmates. The memories of '87 are filled with affectionate recollections of the Emerys, and the sympathy of the class goes out to Mrs. Emery.

CLASS QF 1889

Christian Peder Andersen died at the Trumbull Hospital, Brookline, Mass., January 31, 1927, of appendicitis, after a brief illness. He was born December 6, 1864, at Svancke, Denmark, the son of Hans Kafford and Anne Marie (Dahl) Andersen.

During his early childhood, the family came to St. Johnsbury, Vt., and there he went through the grades of the grammar school and took the full course in the St. Johnsbury Academy. While a student in the Academy, he worked during vacations and more or less in term time as a skilled mechanic in the Fairbanks scale factory.

He entered and graduated (8.5.) with the class, being a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi. After graduation, he spent a year in New York city in the book publishing business, then a year in Nebraska in real estate business, and later was in real estate and granite business in Boston for six: years. In 1897 he entered the wholesale coal business in Boston, and became a coal operator in Pennsylvania five years later, but continued to live in Boston. He had an active connection with the coal business up to the time of his death, although in recent years he had given a good deal of time to developing an oil burner, and later to promoting its manufacture and sale.

He married Miss Bertha May Bates, November 30, 1890, at Lancaster, Pa., who survives him. Their only daughter died in 1899. Two sisters also are living, Miss Clara Andersen, dean of women at Grinnell (Iowa) College, and Mrs. Morrell, whose home is in Illinois.

Funeral services were held at Mount Auburn Chapel, Cambridge, on February 4, which were attended by four classmates—Allen, Bartlett, Blakely, and Doane.

CLASS OF 1905

Rev. Irving Wesley Stuart died December 27, 1926, at the Harper Hospital in Detroit. Mich., after an illness of several months from a mastoid infection. He was born in Lunenburg, Vt., on September 27, 1870. Entering Bangor Theological Seminary at Bangor, Me., in 1900, he graduated in 1903, and then entered Dartmouth as a junior and graduated with the class of 1905.

While at Dartmouth he served the Congregational church at Hartland, Vt., where he was ordained to the ministry in 1905. In October, 1906, he was called to the First Congregational church in Detroit as assistant to Dr. G. G. Atkins, where he remained until early in 1908, and then accepted the leadership of the First Congregational church at Alpena, Mich. He was in Alpena until 1914, when he was called to organize a new church in Detroit. He succeeded in starting and building up a fine church in a fast developing part of that growing city, naming it "the Pilgrim Congregational church." In this church his funeral service was held. In 1924 he became superintendent of the Congregational Union in Detroit, and this position he occupied when death called him.

Stuart was one of the few married men in college. On October 9, 1895, he had been married in Lunenburg to Miss Nina N. Davison of that place. She survives him, and also their daughter, Freda Nina Stuart. The daughter is a graduate of the University of Michigan in the class of 1921, and is the wife of Robert M. Kerr, formerly of Duluth, Minn., now of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Dr. William J. Campbell 190S of Youngstown, Ohio, writes of Stuart as follows:—

"I attended Stuart's funeral at Detroit on December 29. The body was taken to Lunenburg, Vt'., his old home town. I suppose I was closer to Stuart than anyone else in the class. We both came from Bangor Theological Seminary and joined the class at juniors. We roomed together and had much in common. He was the oldest member of 1905, and yet was as young as any of us in the spirit of the College. He loved Dartmouth, and in our camping trips in the summer time he would always say that he wished to serve as in the presence of the ideal Dartmouth pictured so many times by President Tucker. I think he did more than any member of the class to further that ideal of splendid service. He was a loyal friend and a good man. He worked with an eye upon the better order. I shall miss him. We were together much. I have seen him grow and his influence go out in such a way that he became one of the big leaders of the Congregational world in Detroit. He died just at the time when be was about to enter upon a bigger work. The class of 1905 has lost one of its greatest, yet in losing him has gained the memory of a great soul. Our history is finer for Stuart's living."

CLASS OF 1918

Robert Price Reese died December 11, 1926, at Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa., of acute pancreatitis, after an illness of only two days.

The son of Robert W. and Rachel (Price) Reese, he was born in Johnstown, Pa., September 1, 1894, and prepared for college at the local high school, where he was prominent in football and baseball. In college he was a member of the varsity squad in baseball, and returned in 1919 to coach the freshman team. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Casque and Gauntlet.

He left college in the spring of 1917 to enter the army, where he served as first sergeant of the headquarters company of the 111 th Engineers, being at first at Camp Forrest and then at Camp Meade.

In 1918 he entered the federal secret service, where he achieved unusual success and met with rapid advancement, having been appointed two years ago director of the service for the Pittsburgh district, the youngest man ever to hold such a position. He was a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church.

He was married in Pittsburgh, February 28, 1924, to Mary Alice, daughter of Robert James and Jane (Knowles) Moorehead, who survives him. They had no children. His parents also survive him, and two brothers and two sisters.

We quote from an editorial tribute in a Johnstown paper: "Most of us will remember him as playing ball on the sand lots of Moxham, as one of the boys who helped make Johnstown High School football history. A good student, an officer of his class, he was a man of sterling principle and character, withal the possessor of a genial dispositon which made him a leader of fun in any crowd. . . . With an active. mind in an active body, and a courageous heart which knew no fear, his progress in his chosen profession was rapid. . . . 'Bob' Reese will be remembered as a splendid friend, a real gentleman, and a fine, typical Johnstown boy."

CLASS OF 1926

Robert Wesley Emmes died December 23, 1926, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, of general peritonitis following a ruptured appendix.

He was born in Peterboro, N. H., July 29, 1905, his parents being John Wesjey and Mary (Lord) Emmes, and prepared for college at the Peterboro High School, where he graduated as valedictorian in 1922. He maintained in college a high standing as a scholar, graduated magna cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

During the summer after graduation he was employed for a time with a gang of men working on the pine blister, and then for a time with a local florist. The week before he was taken ill he had gone to Boston to take a position with the Murray Publishing House of Cambridge.

The funeral service was held in the Unitarian church of Peterboro, and the burial was in the family lot in Pine Hill cemetery. He is survived by his parents, three sisters, and two brothers.

MEDICAL SCHOOL

CLASS OF 1888

Dr. William Weymouth Hurd died at his home in Adams, Mass., November 12, 1926, of apoplexy.

The son of Benjamin Chabourne and Elizabeth (Weymouth) Hurd, he was born in West Lebanon, Me., May 5, 1859. His academic education was obtained at Maine Central Institute, Pittsfield, Me. After obtaining his degree at Dartmouth in the fall of 1887, he went to Long Island College Hospital, and graduated there also in the spring" of 1888.

In 1889 he established himself in practice in Adams, Mass., and remained there through the rest of his life as a successful general practitioner. He had served on the board of health and the school committee.

December 25, 1889, Dr. Hurd was married to Clara Crawford, daughter of John and Frances (Stearns) Gutterson of Henniker, N. H., who survives him, with a daughter, Mrs. Alice E. H. Kerr of Flushing, N. Y., and a son, Benjamin S. Hurd of Adams.