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Class of 1873

CHARLES HENRY JONES, recently deceased, was born April 10, 1855, in Ashfield, a small village in the northwestern corner 'of Massachusetts. He was the son of Isaac Rodney and Harriet (Sears) Jones. After the early years of school, he attended the public schools of Boston, and then at fourteen years of age entered Dartmouth College, taking the course of the Chandler Scientific Department. Because of his youthful appearance and flowing hair, his nickname was "Curly Jones," thus distinguishing him from his fellow-scientific neighbor, M. T. Jones. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi. Evidently he was fond of boating, for he is listed in the Aegis of that time as a member of the Scientific Boat Club, whose rendezvous was at "Granny's Island." This boat club had three in its crew, viz.,

"Granny Miller," stroke, "Squinty Robinson," bow, and "Curly Jones," ballast. At one of our recent reunion banquets in Hanover, he referred, in giving his reminiscences of college days, to these scenes.

After leaving Dartmouth at the close of freshman year, he at once entered upon a business career, becoming identified with the boot and shoe interest in 1871, and continuing that interest to the end of life. From 1881 to 1884 he was head of Charles H. Jones & Cos. He then organized the Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Company, of which he became president. For many years he was chairman of the board of directors. He was perhaps the country's best informed expert on hides and legislation concerning hides. For more than twenty years he had been the leading figure of the shoe and leather industry at various hearings at Washington. In 1909 he was credited with the victory for free hides. At one time he was put forward as a candidate for the governorship of Massachusetts. The world had been the sphere of his researches, and at any hearing he could instantly cite statistics and produce arguments in support of his belief in the necessity for untaxed raw materials for the leather industry. He had carefully collected data on the subject which could be obtained from no other source. He took an active part in framing the shoe, leather, and hide items in the Payne-Aldrich Act of 1909, the Underwood-Simmons Act of 1913, and the Fordney-McCumber Act of 1922. He also was interested in the Dingley Act of 1897. He frequently represented the National Boot and Shoe Association in Washington. He was a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, a director of the First National Bank of Boston, and at one time president of that bank. He was vice-president of the Boynton Machinery Cos.

Mr. Jones was fond of out-door life, and belonged to the Eastern Yacht Club and the Beverly Yacht Club, finding much relaxation and thorough enjoyment in the swift course over the blue waves, with a brisk wind filling the sails. Nor did he forget the moral and religious. In Weston, which was his dwelling place, he was a member of the Baptist church. In Boston he was a trustee of the Gordon School of Theology and Missions and a director of the Evangelistic Association of New England. His home was on Glen Road, Weston, and there he died on January 3, 1933. The funeral services were private, and the interment was at Falmouth, Mass.

On December 23, 1882, he married Miss Bessie Roberts of Boston, who survives him. Two sons and two daughters are living, Paul of Whitman, Mass., Charles Henry Jr. (Dartmouth 1923) of Cohasset, Mass., Mrs. Frank J. McSherry of Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and Mrs. James Sinclair of Weston. His life is another instance of that multitude of successful men who have been the gift of small villages that could ill afford to lose them and have later become the influential leaders of great cities.

FREEMAN PUTNEY, recently deceased, was born in Bow, N. H., August 23, 1847, the son of David and Mary (Brown) Putney. For the town of his birth through all his after life he retained an especial affection, going back there to take part in any special event. His father was a farmer, and in the work of the farm much of his early life was passed. Perhaps for this reason he grew up to manhood with a splendid physique. After his early schooling he completed his preparation for college at the academies at Hopkinton and New London, N. H. Entering Dartmouth at the beginning of freshman year, he pursued his studies until graduation, taking the regular classical course. Throughout his course he was obliged to earn his way in great measure. During two of the winter terms he taught district school, one term each in Newington, N. H., and Norwich, Vt. During the summer vacations he worked on farms. And thus, with careful economy, he was able to graduate out of debt. He was a member of Delta Kappa, freshman fraternity, and of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

The fall after graduation he assumed charge of the high school in South Hadley Falls, Mass. His health temporarily failed him, and for a time it was feared that he might be obliged to move to the milder climate of the South. His health improving, he remained in South Hadley Falls, but in 1875 he went to Holyoke to teach, and remained there two years. In the fall of 1877 he became principal of the Shurtleff Grammar School in Revere, Mass. When in September, 1880, he moved to Gloucester to become principal of the Collins School, he began a most notable period of public service as an educator. In the spring of 1888 he was unanimously selected by the school committee of Gloucester to fill a vacancy in the position of superintendent of schools. In that responsible position he remained with marked success until his retirement after twenty-seven years under the Teachers' Retirement Act of Massachusetts. It is recorded of him that during that time "he set the public schoolsof Gloucester on the highest plane." His relation to the citizens of his city, to the school officials, to his associate teachers, and to the school pupils was always close and sympathetic. Small wonder is it that in all the years his birthday anniversary always brought, through the mail, a shower of messages of loving remembrance from former pupils.

Putney was a most appreciative and grateful classmate, and for years no birthday of the class secretary passed without a letter of hearty greeting from him. On January 9, 1933, when the secretary reached the age of eighty years, an especially hearty message came from Putney, dictated to his devoted wife, who in those last years of his blindness was his faithful secretary, writing his letters for him. Never in any letter was there a complaint of his lost vision, but ever the cheery testimony to the kindness of his friends and former associates and pupils. And thus quietly he passed away, January li, 1933, at his home in South Weymouth, Mass., where he had made his home since his retirement in 1915.

Small wonder is it that the entire city of Gloucester completely filled the First Baptist church with a hushed congregation to pay tribute to his memory, and that the mayor of the city delivered an address in which he characterized the former superintendent as a "man among men, whosequalities of service to the thousands ofschool children now grown to manhoodand womanhood were molded into thevery fiber of their being."

He married in Springfield, Mass., June 17, 1877, Miss Alice C. Knight of South Hadley Falls. They have had three sons, Freeman Jr. (Brown University '99) of South Weymouth; Walter K., a teacher, also of South Weymouth, who is married and has two sons, and Willis R., Dartmouth 1916, who teaches in the high school of Burlington, Vt.

Mr. Putney was a stanch Republican, and had the proud distinction of having voted for seventeen presidential candidates during his life, his first vote having been cast for Gen. U. S. Grant in 1868.

Class of 1879

A long-lost member of the class of 1879 has been traced after extended search. STEPHEN WEBSTER BENEDICT, who entered Dartmouth with the class of 1879 and remained with them during their freshman year, died March 25, 1930, in Kansas City, Mo. His death came after a short illness following an automobile accident.

Benedict was born in New Marlboro, Mass., August 12, 1854, and fitted for college at Berkshire Institute. He was a farmer for a time in New Marlboro, and afterwards in Mt. Washington, Mass., where he married Clara Campbell of that town. Mrs. Benedict died in 1902.

Two children survive him,—a daughter, Mrs. Wiley, of Kansas City, and a son, Ralph R. Benedict, of Springfield, Ill., also a grandson, who bears the name of Stephen Webster Benedict.

The son writes, "Father often spoke ofhis college days, the happiest of his life."

Class of 1888

BENJAMIN BURTON GILLETTE died at Hanover, Mass., February 9, 1933. For many months he had suffered from arthritis, which had first rendered him powerless to practice his profession and then gradually had reduced him to physical helplessness. Death came as a relief to intense sufferings.

* Gillette was born at Hartford, Vt„ July 21, 1865. St. Johnsbury Academy fitted him for college. Entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1884, he joined the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and later in his course became college organist and at the same time organist of St. Thomas' Church, Hanover. After his graduation he became connected as teacher, choir-master, and musical director with the Church of the Holy Trinity, Marlboro, Mass., a position he held for twenty-seven years. His study of music and the organ was thorough and constant. He was the pupil of the Boston organist S. B. Whitney. In June, 1890, he passed examinations in New York City which obtained for him the degree of Associate of the College of Musicians. He was organist of Trinity church, Boston, 1891-93; of St. Stephen's, Lynn, 1892-95, and for years of the First Congregational church, Cambridge, Mass.

No man of the Dartmouth alumni ever mastered the organ more completely than did Gillette. His services were in constant demand in the music circles of Boston. His musical settings, like the "Te Deum" sung at the tenth annual festival of the parish choirs of the Diocese of Vermont, 1889, were many. For the "Dartmouth Songs" volume of 1898, he furnished the music for "The Twilight Song."

He was married on August a, 1905, to Annie Belle Este of Marlboro, Mass., who survives him.

Class of 1889

FRANK WILLIAM PHILBRICK died at his home in Lancaster, Mass., February 24, 1933» after a very brief illness. Heart disease was the cause of death.

He was born at Charleston, S. C., July 4, 1863, the son of William L. and Sarah E. (ScottJ Philbrick. He was an only child. His boyhood was spent in Portsmouth, N. H. He prepared for college in the local high school, entered and graduated (8.L.) with our class.

For about twenty years he was active in business connected with the manufacture and sale of railway supplies, and lived in or near Boston. As a side issue he was greatly interested in bowling and in manufacturing "Boston Pins," which were used widely in the alleys of New England and nearby states. A serious accident, followed by prolonged disability, necessitated a good deal of restriction in his activities for the next few years. In 1919 he changed his residence to Lancaster. Soon after he was appointed postmaster, and held this office for about eight years, until impaired health compelled him to resign. He took an active interest in establishing a Boy Scout troop and in encouraging and supervising recreational activities for the boys of the community.

Since giving up the postmastership his chief interest has been horticultural. He was always interested in flowers and, as Chester Curtis once wrote, "he came naturally by this taste, as during his boyhood hisfather was in charge of one of the largestestates in New England, of which the mostcharacteristic feature was its landscapegardening." He concentrated on gladiolus and regal lilies.

Philbrick was the first one of our class (graduates) to marry, and the date was June 39, 1889, the place Hanover, and the maiden name of his wife Miss Zula Purmort. Mrs. Philbrick died in Boston, March 19, 1916. Their only child, Bernice, married George S. Carr, July 7, 1917. A second marriage in 1919 was to Miss Helen Avery in Lancaster, who survives.

Class of 1902

MAURICE JOSEPH LEAHY of New York City died suddenly on January 27. He had gone to bed January 18, thinking he had a case of the prevalent influenza, but the best of care could not foresee the arterial thrombosis which rendered him unconscious the following Tuesday, and three days later he was gone. How unexpected this was is seen from comments of Thayer School friends who noted his absence from the annual dinner of the Thayer Society on January 20. Maurice was usually at these dinners, but no one felt that there was any reason that he should not be present at many more.

Maurice Leahy was born in Holyoke, Mass., on April 3, 1880, and came to Dartmouth with Jack Griffin from the South Hadley Falls High School. In addition to the B.S. degree in 1908, he received the C. E. degree from the Thayer School in 1903. He then joined the engineering staff of George F. Hardy in New York, and for fourteen years was most active in engineering work connected with the building, improvement, and operation of some of the most representative pulp and paper plants in the United States and Canada.

During this period Maurice saw all types of service from detailed office work to engineer-in-charge on large operations. While at Clarke City, Quebec, on the north of the wide mouth of the St. Lawrence, he was almost out of touch with the rest of the world, with the steamer coming in only twice a month in fair weather. It was here that he could look through the roof logs from his bed and see the stars, and in the morning look down through the floor logs and see the cook getting breakfast.

In the winter of 1908 he was surveying on the upper watershed of the St. Croix river, one prolonged tramp mostly in the woods of northern Maine. When one realizes the circumstances, knowns that during this time Maurice had little company, slept mostly in a pup tent, and had to carry with him necessary provisions for at least two weeks, he feels almost aghast at the item in Maurice's professional record, "December 1908—March 1909, surveys for storagedams." If each item of the record of those fourteen years carries with it the same type of human triumph over handicap, the same sort of personal achievement, it is small wonder that those of us who are not engineers look up at this man's record with the feeling that here was a man who had really lived and truly accomplished enduring works.

Other items from this vigorous period indicate the kind of engineer he had become: "Engineer in charge of 12,000 horsepower hydraulic development and storagedams; engineer in charge of paper mill atPowell River, British Columbia, including35,000 horse-power hydraulic development,815 ft. breakwater in Straits of Georgia, anddock for ocean vessels." And the last in this series, "in charge at Grand Mere, Quebec,of a hydro-electric station of over 100,000horse-power and large paper-mill alterations."

About 1917 he returned to New York City to stay, and for most of the time carried on a business of paper merchandizing, handling largely newspaper material. At times he was also interested in other affairs, including steamship operation, but in the main his activity was in the field of paper and paper pulp, the field in which he had done his work as an engineer. And one finds that here, too, the man made his mark.

"He knew paper and its uses, and alsohis customers. They got a square deal. Hewas satisfied with a fair profit and that hiscustomers might make a good trade fromtheir point of view."

And again.

"He xuas unquestionably a squareshooter."

That is the picture of the engineer and the business man, but it is not all that there is to see. Of course we remember the quiet fellow who didn't have his roommate's physical equipment, though Maurice was no weakling; we remember his pungent, quick retorts, his ability to find the wheat in the chaff, and no one shows surprise that business associates praised his integrity. Yet perhaps we have not thought of him as a good golf player, one who didn't forget his strokes, and a great walker. Furthermore he was a man of generous habits and a friend with all who met him.

Maurice was very fond of children, always doing something in the big city for some bright-eyed, dirty little youngster. And whenever he went back to his old home the small children were noticeable among the callers. Throughout his life there are many incidents to show his kindly spirit and lovable nature.

Maurice never married, but leaves three sisters in the home town of South Hadley Falls. At the funeral services Dorr and Holmes paid the last tribute of the respect of the class to one who had loved his fellow men and had served them well.

CHARLES WATTIE, pastor of the South Congregational church of South Hartford, N. Y., died Saturday, February 4, after an illness involving kidney trouble and pneumonia. He had preached at this church four years to a day, when he was compelled to give up. His responsibilities and cares had not been light, and he was even looking forward to the prospect of retirement in a few years, but no one had any idea that his work was so nearly done.

Charles Wattie was born in Cluny, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, August 7, 1867, the son of Alexander and Betsey (Smith) Wattie, and obtained his preparatory education in the schools of Cluny. He came to America in 1892. In 1893 he entered Bangor Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1896. In 1896-8 he was pastor of the Congregational church of Ossipee, N. H., and in 1899-1900 at Provincetown, Mass. He came to us at the beginning of junior year. He was quiet and reserved, modest and humble, not given to making a campus name for himself, but seeking to equip himself more thoroughly for the lifework he had chosen. Nevertheless he was a friendly man, as many a classmate can testify. How we enjoyed his Scottish tongue, and those pros and cons in Dr. Home's sparkling classroom.

No man in the class was more respected, even though Wattie was not well known to all. Perhaps sometimes he wondered about our general lack of serious purpose, but he did not rail against us. For 'he was very human, and saw life with a clearer eye than did most of us. His quiet humor and his true common sense appealed to all, and we knew that he would hold fast to his convictions.

Graduation from college meant less to Wattie than to most; he simply went on with the work in which he could already count six years of service, as he had served churches during his summer vacations. His pastorates have been as follows: Gaysville and Pittsfield, Vt., 1902-3; Quechee, Vt., 1903-7; Shoreham, Vt., 1908-12; Richmond, Vt., 1912-16; Hardwick, Vt., 1918-21; West Stockbridge, Mass., 1921-7; South Hartford, N. Y., 1928-32.

Wattie married on June 17, 1908, Miss Irene R. Lillie, who survives him. Mrs. Wattie has been an invalid for the past six years or more, so ill that her husband had in these years, as he wrote, been hands and feet for her. This was literally true, as we have since learned. "We have neverknown an example of such Christian devotion as Mr. Wattie displayed." Mrs. Wattie has now been taken to live with her brother in Orwell, Vt.

Wattie's last letter to the class was quoted substantially in full in the November issue of the MAGAZINE. It is quite characteristic, and could be improved only if there were some way of adding that Scottish tongue. Some idea of the feeling of this man for the College can be gained by reading in one of our reports of his delight in being able at West Stockbridge to make again some Dartmouth contacts, but a still better picture appears when one finds that he had done what he could in the share of the class toward the Alumni Fund.

What a spirit this man possessedl Reread now that letter of his if you will, and put it in its proper light.

"No one ever heard him complain, although from day to day the lines on hisface grew deeper and deeper. He mighthave been called severe and stern in thepulpit, but outside he was broad and unusually cheerful. He was loved and respected by his people. . . . Sad, but determined to carry on to the end. . . . He had adifficult path to travel, but he made theway bravely and unselfishly."

Say what we please, we didn't half know this classmate; now we find that in these matters we do know he seems to measure up well beyond what becomes a worthy and honorable man. What more could be said if we had been with him in his work and in his home!

Yet who should write of the life of one who has spent his years in the work of the Lord in these small communities of the New England section? Only in the books of the recording angel are written the countless little acts that make such a man a real force for good in places which value his service far beyond the point the rank outsider would set.

Charles Wattie fought the good fight, and has "finished the work Thou didst give him to do."

A further shock to the class of 1902 is brought by the news of the sudden death of Enos K. Sawyer, for two years a popular member of the class. On Friday night, March 2, while presiding at a meeting of the Franklin Retail Merchants' Association, he suddenly collapsed. Medical help was called, but apparently death had been almost instantaneous.

ENOS KITTREDGE SAWYER was born in Franklin, N. H., August 24, 1879, the son of George W. and Louise C. (Barnes) Sawyer. He entered Dartmouth from Phillips Andover, and during his college career was one of the best known men of the class. His genial nature was sure to win friends throughout this group, or in any group. Of stocky build, he was always known as "Fat" Sawyer, a term distinctly of friendship. That vigorous, considerable weight was no disadvantage to the center of the line of the freshman football team.

He went into his father's business in Franklin and carried on the store, a retail meat, grocery, and provision business. Franklin was his home, and he was proud of it. And it was early seen that his ability was recognized. In 1909 he was elected mayor, the youngest man who has filled that office. The following year he was unanimously re-elected. He was a state senator in 1912-13, and served as president of the Senate.

In 1918 he was appointed federal director for New Hampshire and Vermont of the United States Unemployment Service, and in the year and a half that the service continued he organized and directed twelve employment offices for the government. This work succeeded in placing in employment over ten thousand men and women.

In 1933 and 1924 he served as secretary of state under Governor Fred H. Brown, and recently it had been rumored that he was to receive an important federal position under the new administration.

In addition to his business of the G. W. Sawyer Company, he was a director of the Sulloway Hosiery Mills of Franklin. Sawyer was a Mason, an Elk, a member of the Foresters, and was serving this year as president of the Franklin Rotary Club.

His wife, who was Miss Mabel E. White, survives him.

So, for the third time in little jover a month, the class of 1902 pauses, and each man reviews in memory the scenes wherein another friend who has too early passed beyond shared some of his college days.

Class of 1910

Bill Dussault's death on Tuesday, March 7, came as a great surprise to Dartmouth men. Few, if any, knew that he had a serious ailment. We cannot do better than to reprint the following from the Franklin paper, as he was held in very high esteem in his home town.

"Residents of Franklin and surroundingcommunities learned Tuesday with saddened hearts of the passing of William A.Dassault at his home on View St., wherehe had been confined with a serious illnessa little more than two weeks. Mr. Dussault's death was due to nephritis, withwhich he had suffered for the past twoyears. Although everything that medicalskill and care could do was done, it wasnot the will of the Heavenly Father thathis life should be spared.

"Mr. Dussault will be greatly missed inhis native city, where he had for manyyears held a position of great responsibility,in which he had proved himself to be ofgreat value. He was assistant treasurer ofthe Franklin Savings Bank, secretary andtreasurer of the Franklin Building andLoan Association, and treasurer of thecity of Franklin. Mr. Dussault was anexpert banker, bookkeeper and rmalyst, andin banking circles was well and favorablyknown throughout the entire slate. Hisplace is one that will be exceedingly difficidt to fill.

"WILLIAM ARTHUR DUSSAULT was a sonof Alfred and Odile (St. Jean) Dussault,both of whom were born in St. Jean Baptiste, Canada. Mr. Dussault was born inFranklin, July 16, 1886, and attended thepublic schools, graduating from FranklinHigh School in the class of 1906. He thenentered Dartmouth College and graduatedthere in 1910, with the degree of Bachelorof Arts. For the next two years, Mr. Dussault studied law with the late JudgeThomas F. Clifford, and then on October1, 1912, became identified with the Franklin Savings Bank, holding at first the position of clerk under the late Frank Proctor.Mr. Dussault was elected to the office ofassistant treasurer of the Franklin SavingsBank in October, 1924, and in July of thatsame year he had been made city treasurer. He was a Republican in politics andhad previously served Franklin as tax collector.

"Fraternally Mr. Dussault was affiliatedwith Meridian Lodge, No 60, Free and Accepted Masons, St. Omer Chapter, No. 22,Royal Arch Masons, Franklin Lodge, No.1280, Benevolent and Protective Order ofElks. He had been worshipful master ofMeridian Lodge, a high priest of St. OmerChapter, and an exalted ruler of the Elks.He was a member of the Mojalaki CountryClub, the Franklin Chamber of Commerce,the New Hampshire Bankers' Association,and of the Unitarian church.

"Mr. Dussault married in Boston, Mass.,April 30, 1913, Ethel C. Jones, who wasborn in Bristol, Me., the daughter of Warren and Harriet (Fosseth) Jones. Besideshis widow he leaves two sons, William E.,born in Franklin, September 25, 1915, andRobert E., born in Medford, Mass., March8,1 1919. The older son is a junior in Franklin High School and Robert is a studentin the Daniell Junior High School. Mr.Dussault also leaves two brothers, Euclidand Albert, and three sisters, Mrs. FrankDeragon, Miss Rose Alma Dussault, andMrs. Omar Rainville, the latter of Northfield.

"The funeral will be held this afternoonat 2.00 o'clock from the Unitarian church.The body will lie in state in the churchfrom 12.00 to 1.00 o'clock."

Frank N. Parsons, Dartmouth '74, president of the Franklin Savings Bank, offered the following appreciation:

"William A. Dussault joined the staff ofthis bank soon after his graduation fromcollege and remained with us until hisdeath, a period of over twenty years, holding at his death the position of assistanttreasurer, which he had held for some tenyears.

"By his courtesy, attention to duty, andefficiency, he won the respect and affectionof his associates and rendered most valuable service to the bank and its depositors.His departure leaves a vacancy in our rankswhich will not soon be filled."

Your Secretary has seen Bill with increasing frequency during the past few years at all kinds of athletic contests in Hanover. Our seats were next to his at the New Hampshire game in November. Bill became a basketball fan a year ago, and with his friend, A. L. Smythe, treasurer of the bank, attended all of the Hanover games.

Mr. Smythe writes: "It was a great blowto us all when we learned that Bill was ina serious condition. He is my next-doorneighbor, so I saw him often during his"sickness, but I could not believe it possible that anything serious could happento him until I was finally told that noneof his business associates could see him.

"I know very few of our citizens whoseloss will be mourned more than the passing of Bill. He was of the highest type ofcitizen, and always gave his best efforts toeverything in which he came in contact.

"Bill was, as you know, a very devotedalumnus of your college, and followed allof its activities as closely as his means andtime permitted."

We like to think of Bill Dussault as one of those country boys who worked for his college education, and after obtaining it returned to his home town to start at the bottom and work up through to positions of honor and trust. A sentence from a letter written a year lacking two days prior to date of his death shows the modesty which characterized him: "You seewe country boys seldom do anything important enough to be classed as news." Bill's humor asserted itself in another letter written in December, 1931, when he had just returned from an extended inspection trip with Bob Fletcher '12 through Oklahoma and neighboring states. He wrote:"We drove back in a beautiful Fordsedan from Little Rock, Ark., to Concord,N. H., in a little over nothing flat andnever scratched a fender."

In the brief span of years allotted to him, Bill achieved success. His death will be mourned by Dartmouth men and his classmates.

Class of 1912

Louis CLARENCE THOMAS, known to his classmates of 1912 as "Tommie," passed away very suddenly at the Charlesgate Hospital in Boston on December 21, 1938.

"Tommie" was born in Princeton, N. J., October 3, 1889, attended preparatory schools in New England, and was in Tufts College for a time before coming to Dartmouth. He left college in 1911, but subsequently studied at Northeastern University, receiving the degree of B.C.S.

He was employed for a time with a confectionery manufacturing concern, but since 1917 had been connected with the Commonwealth Ice and Cold Storage Company in Boston, being finally assistant treasurer of the company. He lived for several years in Brookline, Mass., but for the past year had lived at 54 Louise Road, Belmont, Mass. His social activities were varied, and he took an active part in the Winthrop Lodge of Elks.

He was married May 28, 1932, to Miss Iris Breeze, and they spent a part of their honeymoon at our Twentieth Reunion in Hanover.

Always a faithful and loyal member of our class, ever ready with his contributions to the College, his sudden going was a distinct shock.

Class of 1918

JOSEPH ALOYSIUS PHILBIN died at Saranac Lake, N. Y„ October 15, 1935.

The son of John Joseph and Margaret Forrestal (Devaney) Philbin, he was born in Clinton, Mass., April 12, 1894, and prepared for college at the Clinton schools. He was a member of Chi Phi.

July 31, 1917, he enlisted as private in the Ordnance Corps, 83d Division, Light Field Artillery. He received various promotions, and finally was commissioned first lieutenant. His service was at Camps Sherman, Jackson, McClellan, and Mills, and he was discharged at Camp Grant, 111., February 6, 1919. He did not return to college, but received his degree with the class among those in military service.

Since his discharge he had fought a continual and losing fight with tuberculosis, being most of the time at Saranac Lake.

Class of 1932

RANDALL WARNER KINKEAD died suddenly March 4, 1933, at his home, 1 W. 64th St., New York City, of septicemia, followed by pneumonia. He was twentyfour years old. Recently he had returned from a trip around the world as ordinary seaman aboard the S. S. Steel Navigator. He was working up to the time of his illness with the First National Corporation.

Randy attended Kingsley School, and was graduated from Lake Forest Academy in 1928. At both of these places he achieved athletic prominence, and was captain of the baseball team at Kingsley. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Dragon.

It is difficult to describe the feeling of loss with which Randy's death leaves us. Those who were in closest friendship with him knew him as a reliable and congenial roommate or companion. His presence among the members of the College and his class was respected on account of the qualities of sincerity and affability which he possessed in no small measure. We mourn his passing, and wish to express our sympathy to his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Amos, and to his brother, Eugene F. Kinkead Jr.