Colonel Little
THE DEATH OF C. B. LITTLE '81 removed one of the foremost citizens from the Northwest. In many respects he was a pioneer in business in that great section of the country, when he emigrated from Pembroke, N. H., after Harvard law school, to North Dakota. He surely pioneered for Dartmouth in the Northwest and was, throughout his life, always on the watch for ways in which he could give his time, services, and support to the College.
Mr. Little was the donor of the carillon in Baker Library Tower. The gift was made anonymously when the building went up in 1928 and President Hopkins now reveals the benefactor of the bells. This was an example of his sort of generosity—a need existed which he volunteered to meet, providing no one knew about it. His record of attendance at three Trustee meetings every year since his election in 1921 is amazing—all the more so considering the location of his home and very active business interests more than half-way across the country.
In addition to 20 years as a Life Trustee he was for five years president of the Alumni Council in its earliest history, and has probably not missed dropping in at every semi-annual Council meeting during the 28 years of its existence.
He became a "Colonel" on the North Dakota's governor's staE in 1885. This affectionate nickname and also "C. B." were the form of address used by a host of friends for this stalwart Bismarck and Dartmouth citizen. For stalwart he was—up to very near the end. He would have been 84 this month but advancing years did not dim the pleasure of rounds of golf on the Hanover course, which is held by men half his age to be suitable terrain for mountain goats.
Our old friend, C. B. We'll miss him at Commencement. Dartmouth men will miss his weekly visits to the Twin Cities where he never failed to turn up at any event of a Big Green nature. No son has been more eager in his solicitude for Dartmouth's welfare than Colonel Little.
LEWIS PARKHURST '78 has resigned from the Board of Trustees. Of the same college generation as C. B. Little, Mr. Parkhurst for some years longer served on the Board. He was elected in the presidency of William Jewett Tucker, the great leader of the College. He was a powerful figure on the Board during the succeeding administration of President Nichols, especially on financial affairs in which he has had much interest and responsibility. And in many capacities he has never spared his personal time or energy in meeting to the full, and then some, the duties of Trusteeship throughout President Hopkins' administration.
Thus has one man served three presidents of the College. Mr. Parkhurst was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1908. He retires this year. During thirty-three years much of himself has gone into Dartmouth College. He and Mrs. Parkhurst began their generous financial support of the College many years ago. Parkhurst Hall, its construction and maintenance, is an enduring monument to these noble people as it is to their promising son, Wilder, who died in 1904 after one year in Hanover.
It is doubtful if there has ever been a day over a long span of years when Lewis Parkhurst has not thought of Dartmouth. And this devotion to an institution with which he is so closely identified will go on, whether he is a Trustee or not.
He is now our eldest statesman, and emeritus. As such we salute him, respectfully and gratefully, wishing him many pleasant years to come.
"It's some foolishness he picked up at college."
