AN ORFORD TRIO OF THE CLASS OF '65

Through the kindness of Rev. Henry I. Cushman, D. D., secretary of the class of '65, and Dr. Lewis M. Silver the Magazine is able to reproduce the pictures shown on this page and the opposite page., The group shows three members of the class of '65, one picture taken at the time of graduation from College and the other just subsequent to the Fiftieth Reunion of the class. In each case it will be noted that the relative position of the men in the photograph is the same and their attitude in the picture practically so. Dr. Cushman is standing, at the left of the reader is Leonard Wilcox and at the right Edwin B. Hale. All in the group were natives of Orford.

Dr. Cushman, the only survivor of the trio, has had a notable career as a Universalist pastor in Rhode Island pulpits. For thirty-five years he was pastor of the First Universalist Church in Providence and following his resignation in 1910 he was elected to the chair of Professor of Homiletics in the Crane Theological School of Tufts College. This position he held for ten years until 1920 when he was elected Professor Emeritus. Following his active pastorate in the church he was elected Pastor Emeritus and this position he held until his resignation last June. He holds the position of secretary of his class.

Edwin B. Hale spent the active years of his life in Boston as a teacher and lawyer. He was for a time principal of the high school in Newton, Massachusetts, and was also superintendent of schools in Cambridge, the first to occupy this position. After graduation from Harvard Law School he engaged in the practice of law in Boston, later becoming a member of the firm of Hale and Dickerman, of which he was senior member until the time of his death. For two years also he was a member of the State House of Representatives. Among the bequests in Mr. Hale's will were one of $7500 to Dartmouth College to establish a scholarship and one of $1000 to the Dartmouth Educational Association. He died or. August 30, 1926.

Leonard Wilcox also followed the profession of law after a brief period of teaching in Indiana. His active life was spent in St. Louis where he died March 23, 1919.

The later picture was taken by Dr. Lewis M. Silver, himself a native of Orford and a graduate of Yale University, who has given much valuable information to the Dartmouth Alumni Office relative to Orford students who have been in attendance at the College. The picture was taken at Orford in front of the house built and occupied by Captain Samuel Morey, well-known in the early days of the village.

An Orford Trio in 1865 Leonard Wilcox, H. I. Cushman, E. B. Hale

The Orford Gtoup in 1915