Class of 1900

The Secretary is engaged in a noble effort to get out a class report and, with that purpose in view, has sent a most appealing circular letter to all his classmates, asking for news. To this the response was generous, but not complete. Another circular letter, this time worded in terms of deep pathos, was sent to those negligent, again with reasonably satisfactory results. But there are a few who are still recalcitrant. If you are one of the uncommunicative cusses who apparently has forgotten that you once knew how to write, probably there will still be time for a letter after receipt of this issue of the MAGAZINE. But if you don't write, the results be upon your own head. News must be at hand from everyone, and everyone is to be included in the report. The Secretary still has a vivid imagination, so if you find yourself emblazoned to the world as having been chosen as Hitler's right-hand man, or as having been sentenced to Alcatraz for violation of the anti-trust act, it will be your own fault for not giving definite information that neither of these events has actually taken place.

Everyone is rejoiced that Ben Prescott has recovered so completely from his serious illness, and is now back in Milford well on his way to his usual good health. Not to enlarge upon gruesome anatomical details, it seems that Ben's stomach got completely out of control, and went up and up, way through his diaphragm, until it threatened to usurp the place of most of the rest of his innards. It was skilfully reduced to its proper position and, before leaving the hospital, Ben was credibly reported as eating with gusto and good digestion the ordinary diet of invalids, such as corned beef and cabbage.

Risley has come from Nova Scotia to the Baptist Hospital in Boston for observation and treatment, which, we all hope, may soon put him upon his feet again.

Dr. Jim Woodman writes that ten months in the year he spends in correcting the internal economy of the people in central New Hampshire, and two months in the woods, hunting and fishing and otherwise disturbing the balance of nature, \or in cruises to the West Indies. It is a base libel to say that these two months of vacation are what contribute most to the proverbial longevity of the people in his home region, but undoubtedly they are good for Jim, who preserves his youth in a way that shames the most of us.

John Warden has changed his base. He left Ashaway, R. 1., early in November, and is now physician in charge of the medical work of a C.C.C. camp in northern Minnesota. In a long and interesting letter he recounts his experiences in that region, which seems not blessed with all the comforts of modern civilization, such as pertain, for instance, to Mr. F. E. Atwood's birthplace in rural Vermont (or was it Jugo-Slavia where Chels said that he was born?). It is a little difficult to tell from John's letter whether all C.C.C.'s are Indians, or all Indians are C.C.C.'s, or no relation exists between C.C.C.'s and Indians, but John has them both as patients and seems to cover a territory as large as all Rhode Island. His address is now Gheen, Minn. Yes, you have it right— GHEEN.

The New York newspapers announce the engagement of Miss Susanna Wilson, daughter of Paul and Mrs. Wilson (the latter better known as Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor), to David Merideth Hare, of New York and Colorado.

The newspapers reported that, on account of his prowess on skis, a mountain in Idaho has been named for Professor Charles A. Proctor of Dartmouth College. Then, with much confusion, the journals next day had to confess that the item was all wrong—the mountain was named for young Charles, who is always getting mixed with his venerable sire. While raising no objection to a mountain for Charles Jr., the class is unanimous in demanding an- other for the elder gentleman. No one deserves a mountain more than our Charles, and there must be plenty of them in Idaho (which, for the benefit of our non-geographical readers, may be located as some distance west of Norwich, Vt.) available for the purpose. What could add more eclat to a state than a mountain named Charles A. Proctor Sr. Mt., flanked by one called Charles A. Proctor Jr. Mt. Dartmouth men in Idaho should see that this is done.

At the last moment before these notes are due we learn with deep regret of the passing of Mrs. Clarence McDavitt, who died, after a long illness, at her home in Newtonville on February 7. Mrs. McDavitt, whose maiden name was Edith Lauterbach, was married to Mac in New York on October 15, 1902. The sincere sympathy of all of us goes out to the husband and the son whom she has left behind.

ALUMNI FUND RECORD FOR 1937

88 contributors (104% of graduates),total gifts of $1,600.00 (/e>s% of objective ).

CLARENCE G. MCDAVITT, Class Agent

CONTRIBUTORS

1900 Arundel, Daniel A. Atwood, Frederick E. Balkam, Gilbert Banning, Samuel W. Barker, Edson M. Barrows, Nathaniel H. Bigelow, Edward B. Bradley, Francis J.1 Brooks, Robert H. Brown, Edward T. Buck, Burton W. Butterfield, Clarence E. Cate, Edgar R. Chesley, Alfred E. Colbert, William J.1 Condit, Dayton L. Corson, Freeman Cristy, Horace W. Davis, Harry B.1 Dodd, JLoring H. Dolloff, Charles H. Dunlap, Roger A. Emerson, Natt W.2 Fairfield, Arthur P. Fairfield, Harry S. Firth, Ray W. Fletcher, Walter H. Foss, Calvin W. Foster, Augustus C. Fowler, Alvah T. Goodhue, Everett W. Hadlock, Fred H. Ham, Guy A.l Hastings, Harold R. Hayden, Arthur B. Hodgkins, Lemuel G. Holland, Harold M. Howard, William E. Howe, Frank M. Hutchins, Harry Jackson, Robert Jenkins, Frederick W. Jenkins, Harry M. Jennings, Frederick E. Jonakowski, Edmund J. Keyes, Homer E. McDavitt, Clarence G. McKay, Maurice P. Mahoney, Cornelius J. Manion, Joseph W. Marshall, Harry I. Mathes, John R. Merry, Louis A. Morse, Nathaniel N.l Newton, Arthur L. Paddock, Clarence E. Phillips, Julian W. Prescott, Benjamin F. Proctor, Charles A. Prouty, Leonard A. Putnam, John H. Rankin, Walter P. Redington, John C. Redington, Paul G. Richardson, Leon B. Risley, Wilfred C. Roberts, Arthur S. Rogers, Charles W. Salinger, Victor R. Sampson, Harry L. Sanborn, Channing T. Sears, F. Dana Sears, Horace H. Skillin, Howard N. Sprague, Embert H. Stickney, Williaml Teague, Henry N. Tirrell, Cornelius U. Tong, George W. Trull, Herbert L. Tuttle, Donald D. Tuttle, Leonard W. Virgin, Arthur R. Wallace, Arthur L. Warden, John B. Wentworth, Joseph Wood, John H.1 Woodman, James B. 1 Memorial gift from aclassmate.2 Memorial gift from Mrs.Emerson.

Secretary, Hanover, N. H.