1879*
Of the 115 men who belonged to this Class, only five are still living, two graduates, Closson and C. H. Smith, and three non-graduates, Darling, Tebbetts and Carter.
Closson, the youngest of the five, is the only one of them still in active work. He is in good health and goes to his New York office at least three days every week to look after the many trusts of which he is the active trustee.
Smith is the oldest one of the group. He and his wife live very quietly near their son H. V. Smith '10. Last January they observed the fifty-fifth anniversary of their marriage. It is sixty years this month since Smith's ordination to the Christian ministry, but he has done no preaching for more than a year. He is too lame to walk far from home but drives his car within "rationing" limits. Mrs. Smith does her traveling in a wheel-chair and has not been outside of her house for two years.
Darling still lives on his Lyndonville, Vt., farm which his son Alfred carries on. He feels some of the infirmities of his years but is quite active on two meals a day. He is much interested in training and driving his fast horses which he hitches up and drives daily.
Dr. Tebbetts graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1881 and located at Hollister, Calif., in 1884, which has been his home ever since, though he retired from practice several years ago.
Carter reports from Dorchester, Mass., that he is in good active condition, but like some of the rest of us confesses a weakness in the legs. He says he never has been sick and does not want to be! He is troubled by the waste that is going on and feels for those who will have to bear the burdens of the coming years. He has given much thought to the question of a future existence of which he sees no evidence.
While '79 with the other classes of that decade is not included this year in the Alumni Fund competition, it is still able to give a good account of itself in the Fund campaign and appreciates the help given in several generous memorial gifts.
Secretary, 72 South St., Proctor, Vt.
