1901*

Herbert Dunnington's drug store at the corner of Main and East Elm Streets, Brockton, Mass., was seriously damaged by a $150,000 fire that partially destroyed the Opera House Block, early this summer.

Claude Butterfield is serving as pastor of the Church in Ballardvale, Massachusetts, and is also Secretary of the World Fellowship in the Boston office.

It has been sometime since we have heard from Rubber Thayer but a note has come in recently saying he is as well as usual, in fact younger than ever. He writes an old timer out there asked him the other day how old he was, and Rubber replied, "I am nearly 61 but really 24." We suppose that is a plug for that marvelous climate of California.

"Pa" Rollins was nominated by Governor Saltonstall to the judge-ship of the Brookline district court, he has served as Special Justice for sometime, and this is a well deserved honor.

C. H. Merrill's son George, and Laurence Hardy's boy are. entered in the Freshman class at Dartmouth this year.

Charles W. Stevens, a sophomore at Hebron Academy, Hebron, Maine, has been elected to Green Key, a similar organization to the Green Key at Dartmouth. He is also drum-major in the band, and out for the swimming team.

Laura Lord Scales, was honored with the degree of Doctor of Letters at the Dartmouth Commencement. "Hoppy" cited her;

In consideration of the versatility ofyour mind and the variety of your accomplishments, it is with a sense of pridethat recollection is had of the Dartmouthenvironment of a beloved professor's homein which you were born, in which youwere reared, and from which you went tocollege. Only by the accident of birth hasit heretofore been denied you to standwith the men of your family in a lineagebeginning with President Lord and hiseight sons and continuing to the presentday. Even so, however, it is because ofyourself and not of your family associations that Dartmouth honors you today.....You have for 17 years in the vitallyimportant position which is yours met theresponsibilities of determining the livingconditions under which the undergraduates live in one of America's foremost colleges for women. In a period of rapidchange in social conventions, you haveperspicaciously faced difficult and delicateproblems in conduct with extraordinaryunderstanding of the modern girl. Thisyou have done in such a way that throughyour faith in the educational value of responsibility you have created a self-governing community in which the dominantsentiment is always on the side of courtesy, decency, and consideration for others.This you have done, moreover, with suchcomprehension and with such sympathythat in the great majority of cases of thenumberless girls with whom your contactshave been established, your relations havebeen more personal than institutional andyou have come to be held by them in deepaffection not so much as an official adviseras a friend and confidante.

Bob Leavens writes that the Leavens had the great pleasure of seeing and entertaining the Coxes, Mary, Nancy and Chan, while they were in San Francisco this summer. Bob also saw "Alfie" Salinger recently. He called at the Federal Office Building, a handsome commodious new structure at San Francisco's Civic Center, and was shown to where he sat in front of the microscope at his working place in the chemical laboratory. They had a good visit together, and Bob was introduced to "Alfie's" associates in the laboratory and to the chief of his department. Bob was touched with the affection in which they all seem to hold him, only they don't call him "Alfie," they call him "Sallie."

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