1902

All of 1902 will be happy to know that Julius Arthur Brown, after another eight years, is back in America and safely housed at 387 Harvard St., Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut and while there we are glad to say survived numerous bombings in the Syrian Campaign. With his good wife Helen and his mother, Mrs. Francis Brown, in her 90th year, he left Beirut by plane July 4th of this year, flew to Heliopolis, Khartoum, across French Equatoral Africa to Nigeria. Thence they flew to Lagos, a city of beauty on a coastal island, where they waited seven days for a clipper, which took them to Natal Brazil and then by plane to Trinidad, Miami, and New York, landing July 18th. Mustn't the father, mother, and children have had a wonderful reunion! Unfortunately, his oldest son, Francis, a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, is now out of the country. Another son, Sanborn, is a physics instructor at M.I.T., busy with war work research. His daughter, Betty, is married to Dr. James Jessup, also in the Medical Corps and awaiting sailing orders. The next son, Arthur, graduated from Dartmouth in January and is in the USNR, and the youngest son, Sam, is finishing his freshman year at Dartmouth, but expects to soon be called. I guess that war record may stand for 1902.

I think we should all envy Tom Barnes who has retired and says that his "happiness is greater than any man has a right to have." How's that? Tom was twenty-odd years principal of a school in East Orange, New Jersey, and sent many a boy and one football captain to Dartmouth. He retired in 1940 and spends his winters at Coronado Beach, Florida, and his summers at Gurnet, Brunswick, Maine. He plants the garden, mends the roof, helps with the housework, and mixes in many community activities. His wife he says looks 35 and he recently "caught a couple of scoundrels looking at her through field glasses." They are doing the things they planned to do all their lives and would that we all could do likewise. Tom has one daughter and expects to have a grandson in Dartmouth in 1952 at our 50th reunion.

The two fine letters from Julius Brown and Tom Barnes make your secretary wish to write them and each of you, but it so happens that being a physician these days in an overcrowded and underdoctored city gives me scant time to even see my own family. Please write me about yourselves and someday I will write to all of you.

Secretary, 704 Congress St., Portland, Me.