Class of 1871

Eugene M. Robinson and Mrs. Robinson have spent the winter in Cuba. A year ago their annual pilgrimage took them to Honolulu, with calls upon several classmates in California.

A somewhat delicate task of the class secretary and claSs agent is to get in touch with the non-grads, who under the new dispensation are bound to receive more attention.

Frank M. Ketcham of Indianapolis was a member of '71 during freshman year. He came from a pioneer Indiana family. His grandfather was the first treasurer of Indiana; his father and mother were members of the church and choir of Henry Ward Beecher; and his brother William A. (Dartmouth 1867) was attorney-general of Indiana for two terms, and was national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. Ketcham was long remembered for his amazing feats with the big dumbbell at the gymnasium, and also for making the longest hit up to that time recorded in the annals of Dartmouth baseball, from the northwest corner of the campus over the gymnasium and down to some remote spot on Lebanon St. In the fall of 1867 as captain of the freshman nine he took his team to Lebanon to play the veteran Mascomas, and walloped that aggregation 63 to 17, with several home runs to his own credit. It is needless to add that those were the days of the "live ball," before the game had degenerated into a duel between pitchers, and a position in the outfield then was very far from being a sinecure. At the end of freshman year Ketcham transferred to Williams, where for three years, he was the college organist and began his career as a musician. After graduation he took his degree of M. D. at the Indiana Medical College, and practiced at Indianapolis, engaging also in journalism, but music is and always has been his ruling passion. He was for many years organist and chorister of the Fourth Presbyterian church in Indianapolis, was organist at the funeral of President Benjamin Harrison, and for the past 28 years has been organist for the ten Masonic bodies of Indianapolis (York Rite). He is a member of Pi chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon and of the American Guild of Organists.

Secretary, Woodstock, Vt.