Dean's Widow Dies

MRS. CAROLINE FLAGG EMERSON, widow of the late Dean Charles F. Emerson of Dartmouth died at her home in Hanover on August is, at the age of 92. She had been a resident of Hanover and had been associated with the College for nearly 70 years, ever since her marriage in 1875 to Professor Emerson, who was the first Dean of the College when named to that post in 1893 and who was Dean Emeritus from 1913 until his death here in 1922.

Mrs. Emerson was born in North Chelmsford, Mass., in 1852, the daughter of Timothy and Sophia (Ripley) Flagg, and attended New London Academy and Abbott Academy. She is survived by two daughters, Miss Martha F. Emerson of Hanover and Mrs. Edmund E. Day ('og) of Ithaca, N. Y., wife of the president of Cornell University; a brother, James C. Flagg of San Diego, Calif.; and by four grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held in the Church of Christ on August 14, and burial was in the family lot in the old Dartmouth cemetery.

CAPTAIN FORD K. SAYRE '33, AAC, manager of the Hanover Inn, who was killed July 23 in a Spokane, Wash., air crash. In his memory friends are establishing a fund to promote children's skiing around Hanover.