Class of 1904
Charlie ('06) Milham, is doing a fine job in his D.D.D.: Dartmouth in Dixie Doings "published now and then"with the purpose of stimulating Dartmouth interest in the Southern district. The March issue (last for this year) contains news of Dan ('03) Hinkley, recently moved from Nashville to Atlanta and George ('06) Terrien, president of the Dartmouth Oklahoma association I'm hoping to secure some news from George of his brother Al of Nashua, N. H.
This class interest item, "Visitors inWilliamsburg on February 28 were Sid(Dilwyn Sidney) Rollins and Mrs. Rollins and their daughter Bettina (Mrs.Wheeler). Sid, whose baseball prowess isstill remembered by all old (get that one) grads of the time of 1904, ran down fromthe home in Newport, N. H., with Mrs.Rollins to meet up with their daughterat the wedding of one of her Rollins College classmates in Norfolk. Sid said,'Louise and I were at Norfolk for a grandwedding and stayed long enough to goup to Williamsburg, had a splendid callon Charlie Milham '06, and enjoyed tothe utmost his charming self, wife andmenage.'" '04 sojourners in the south should remember this Virginia point where Southern Hospitality is doled out to OLD GRADS.
OUTING ENTHUSIASTS
We were fortunate recently in having Robbie and his daughter Betty with us for a few days. Betty does the skiing for the family, but Rob went out each day and on tiptoe looked out over our mountains to see what was going on outside our self contained world. Incidentally, Rob did get to the top of the Tecumseh ski trail after three days of effort, going back each day to take up the job where he stopped the night before. He left our snowclad valley for a business trip to Texas,—the state that has to look to our Tom Streeter for its intimate history,in time to enjoy the best winter weather Texas had had for years.
Rollinses, Rolfes and Mowers were given a dinner party by Carl and Mrs. Woods one Saturday evening on the occasion of the Rollinses "going to town" for a week-end. There has also come in an indirect way news of another recent '04 gathering at the Woods' home in Winchester.
Frequent news paragraphs mention- the prowess of Edge in Contract bridge tournaments. We must have a pretty sprightly bunch of card sharks in Edgerly, Rolfe, Mower, Rollins, Sexton, etc. I wonder if the fifth suit recently wished on the card playing public is keeping them awake nights.
The Interim Report of the Dartmouth College class of 1900 reached me a day or two ago and has been thoroughly read and enjoyed. The current history of this class who got out of Hanover in June to make room for our advent in September, 1900 glistens with the charming manner and keen wholesome wit of L. B. 00 Richardson, one of whose many jobs is that of being the devoted secretary to a class that is perhaps the best example of cooperative effort among Dartmouth classes. Read this report if you have the opportunity and know better this group of our time with whom we were not privileged to associate as undergraduates.
EMILIO V. WILKINSON
Our Ohio classmate, Wilkinson, who came to us in 1902 from Oberlin died suddenly at his home, 1284 Westlake Avenue, Lakewood, March 16th at the age of sixty. Few of us realized that this rosy-cheeked, extremely attractive youth with dramatic tendencies was one of the oldest men in the class. For fifteen years he had been a contributor of prose and poetry to the Philosopher of Folly's Column of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The column said on March 18th:
"Mr. E. V. Wilkinson, known for fifteen years to the readers of this column asthe constant contributor of limericks andprose jests under the name of Allah Achbar, died suddenly Tuesday night. This isa profound shock to us ... . it emphasizes this week as a period of sorrow forthe editor and the contributors and readers of this column." The necrology columns of the June issue will contain the facts and accomplishments of his useful life.
Mortimer ('01) Crowell, long time resident of Cleveland, Ohio writes that he used to enjoy an occasional chat with Wilkinson; he also mentions that bachelor lawyer of ours, John Henry Watty Watson Jr., whom he used to see quite regularly at the Weekly Dartmouth Luncheons. Of Watty he says, "it was always a pleasureto converse with him, even if, as was thecase, we never could agree on any subjectwhich might come up." This sounds as if life in Cleveland hadn't changed either of the contestants beyond recognition.
Secretary, Waterville Valley, Waterville, N. H.
