1895
The following is quoted from a clipping from the Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, N. Y.):
"They say that in his pre-med days at Dartmouth Dr. Roland Stevens, recently attached to the staff of Strong Memorial Hospital, was a honeyboy for skiing. He wished almost he had been born a Swede, a Finn or a Norwegian, he liked to ski so much. He skied in all of his off hours when snow lay on the hills and passed many a snowless Sunday polishing his boards in anticipation of long treks through whitefloored woods and flashing descents from high, precipitous crags with a Christiania turn (if that's what they it) at the bottom. Anyway, you may get the idea.
So the war came. So Dr. Stevens was eligible. So what?
So naturally he applied for enlistment in the Ski Troops and, on his qualifications, was accepted. And where d'you suppose they sent him for training, right in the dead of winter?
To Miami Beach, Fla.!"
However, Dr. Roland was not assigned to the Ski Troops, but to the Air Corps, and that is why he was trained at Miami Beach. He is now with the A.A.F.—B.T.C., Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.
It gives us all a bit of a shock, I believe, when news comes of the sudden death of a classmate apparently in the glow of health and in useful action to the last moment. We lost Ned Rossiter and Carroll Davis thus; and now our quiet, dependable, much-needed classmate, Tom Hack, has dropped from our ranks. He died instantly at the end of a long, hard day, while preparing to retire for the night. His obituary appears in this issue.
While in Boston recently, in conference with a Federal Procurement Officer, I incidentally learned that he once attended Franklin Street School, in Manchester, N. H., and was under the tuition of Classmate John Gault. If John felt his ears burning about a fortnight ago it may have been due to the nice things one of his many former pupils was telling me about his teacher.
In a recent letter from Dr. Walter S. Adams '98, director of Mt. Wilson Observatory, he informed me of the death of his brother, Edward F., for three years a member of '95 at Dartmouth. Notice of his death appears in this issue, see In Memoriam.
Secretary, White River Junction, Vt. Class Agent. 8 Zamora Street, Jamaica Plain, Mass
