1898*

The Secretary received a cordial note the other day from Dr. J. R. Noyes of Brockton, Mass., who was with us for a short time at Dartmouth and who with his wife joined us in our 40th Reunion. Dr. Noyes spoke of receiving some special honor in Plymouth, Mass., and it was our own Buck Chandler who was delegated to bestow it upon him.

Recently Commander Donald B. MacMillan, the explorer, called on the Secretary. He reminisced a bit and said that during his college days he played against Dartmouth in football, he being halfback on the Bowdoin team, and the score came out 10-10. It so happened that MacMillan, the fastest runner in Bowdoin, made both touchdowns. In making one he said, "I thought my leg and been broken by the last man who tackled me when I went over for a touchdown. He was your famous athlete Walter McCornack. But instead of my breaking my leg in that tackle, he broke his collar bone, much to my sorrow." I wrote Mac about it and he replied that he never realized who the man was that was in that mix-up with him. He was very much interested to know that it was Donald B. MacMillan, the famous Arctic explorer.

Mac wrote me recently and said, "Young Indian Hewes was in the office today and says your classmate Gary still wears a mustache." I recently came across an old clipping from a newspaper, in fact an entire column, given up to the bicycle riding of Guy L. Gary, the Dartmouth man.

Recently the Secretary was speaking before the Rotary Club in Braintree, Mass., the site of Thayer Academy, founded by Sylvanus Thayer, Dartmouth 1807, who also founded the Thayer School and was for years at the head of the U. S. Military Academy. On the walls of Thayer Academy I saw letters addressed to Sylvanus Thayer from Abraham Lincoln and President Monroe. I was then taken to a bronze tablet upon which was inscribed the names of members of Thayer Academy who had done their part in the great war and among them was the name of our beloved classmate, David Carr Macandrew.

Joe Bartlett has been in the hospital for two or three weeks, but I am happy to report that he is on his way to full recovery.

Ich and Mrs. Ich are due back from their southern trip on the Lady Drake March 13, landing at Boston.

We are glad to know that Fred Lord is on the mend. He was for six weeks resting in Dick's House from a heart attack, but is now at home and hopes soon to be in good shape once more.

Dick Marcy and Florence will soon be coming up from the Sunny South to their attractive home in Lincoln, Mass.

Seth Pope sent me recently the report of the officials of the town of Sandwich. It was put up in a most attractive pamphlet, and one of the most interesting articles in it was the history of the Sandwich Glass Company. While that company was in business, from 1815 to 1888, it did a business of $30,000,000 in the little town of Sandwich.

Ev Snow is a teacher in economics and is a very interesting thinker in this field.

I have the very sad notice to give the class and the college of the passing of our very much beloved classmate, William Howard Middleton, affectionately known to all '9B as "Middy," on February 24, 1939. Further notice will be found in another column of this MAGAZINE very kindly sent to me by his brother-in-law Clarence W. McKay, Dartmouth '93.

A postal card has just come from the Sunny South from Everett Hoyt. He is there with his wife touring Florida, with headquarters at 1208 North Central, Orlando, Fla.

It was with genuine grief that I learned of the passing on Sunday, February 26, of my very dear college friend Selden C. Smith. We had known each other since 1892, which is nearly half a century. We both were students at St. Johnsbury Academy and at Dartmouth College. In college we were associated in the college bookstore for three years and were roommates for two years and during that time never a cross word passed between us. Selden Smith was the soul of geniality and kindness. I greatly enjoyed his friendship. During the four years in St. Johnsbury Academy he had the rare privilege of living in the family of that prince among teachers and cultured Christian gentleman, Charles E. Putney, Ph.D., Dartmouth '7O. He always maintained that during those four formative years of his life there was built a foundation that was of the greatest help to him in his later life. There were three classmates in St. Johnsbury Academy, Selden C. Smith, Benjamin T. Marshall, and Clarence H. Lingham, who were very friendly, and that friendship was kept up in later years. They met their wives as classmates in St. Johnsbury Academy and they, too, retained the friendship of youth as a very precious experience.

Fund Contributors for 1938

Contributors: 63 (121% of graduates). Total gifts: $1,410 (153% of objective). FREDERIC H. LEGGETT, Class Agent.

1898

Adams, Walter S. Anderson, J. Albert Aubey, Israel Bartlett, Joseph W. Batchelder, Edward C. Bennis, Frederick V. Brown, Robert D. Carney, Joseph P. Carr, Charles E. Chandler, Edward D. Chandler, James R. Clark, Charles E. Clark, Henry W. Crane, Ephraim H. Crowley, Henry D. Duncan, Charles1 Farley, George L. Field, Everett H. Gary, Guy L. Gilman, John A. Gleason, Ernest M. Hatch, Leslie A. Hewes, Laurence I. Hoyt, W. Everett

Jones, Albert D. Kendall, Archibald R. Kimball, William A. Leggett, Frederic H. Littlefield, Charles W. Littlefield, Myron G. Lockwood, George Lord, Frederic P. Lucey, Patrick J. Lynch, Harry H. Marcy, Richard Marden, Robert F.2 Middleton, William H. Mitchell, Robert J. Mitchell, William H. Montgomery, Charles D.3 Moulton, John C. Nolan, George H. Noyes, John R. Patey, H. Philip Patterson, Allan H.4 Peck, Robert E. Perkins, Frederic W. Pope, Frederic S.

Robber t, Frederic W. Rodgers, Bradley C. Seel man, Ernest P. Sibley, Clarence E. Smith, Albert Smith, Melvin W. Snow, Everard W. Spring, John R. Swift, Fletcher H. Tabor, Edward O. Tabor, Oscar P., Jr.

Walker, Clarence C. Williams, Chester F. Witte, William J. Worthen, Arthur S. 1 Memorial gift from Mrs.Duncan.2 Memorial gift from Mrs.Mar den.3 Memorial gift from Mrs.Montgomery.4 Income.

Secretary 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.

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