Youthful at 91

ALTHOUGH THE PRESENT European • conflict perhaps tops his experience, tremors from the wars of the world are an old story to Dr. Herbert S. Hutchinson '75 of Milford, N. H. On September 15 he celebrated his 91st birthday and completed almost sixty years of active practice as a physician. He had long since taken the title of the oldest physician in active practice in New England. He is the seventh oldest living graduate of Dartmouth.

Dr. Hutchinson drives his own car when he makes his rounds and he intends to keep on making rounds as long as his services are acceptable. Presiding at more than a,OOO births and helping to bring four generations of a family of five generations into this world are two more of the records he has accumulated.

He takes a lively interest in politics and his interest in nature is second only to medicine. Flowers are now his major hobby. His gardens make his home a showplace of Milford and he boasts such rarities as a Peruvian daffodil and a Matador rose. Fishing, hunting, and wild-life conservation are other interests. He still keeps a good bird dog in readiness for the season to open. In 1929 he presented to the College a valuable entomological collection which is now housed in Wilson Museum. The original collection was made by the late Dr. Charles P. Whitney of Milford but was augmented by many specimens of Dr. Hutchinson's own collecting.