1902

Tom Barnes has written me some letters that suggest the life we should all be leading. The background of this life is a beautiful tropical island at Coronado Beach, Florida. Tom is basking in the sun in his cottage on the top of a sand dune looking to where "the blue ocean stretches yonder to that line where sea and sky meet." Bob Goodell with his good wife Letty has a pleasant cottage on the beach nearby and is painting a really admirable seascape, much to the delight of Tom's little granddaughter. Bob Goodell is also a confirmed fisherman and when he tires of art, afishing he does go. Two 1902 gentlemen who knew when and how to retire. Tom says:

"Over in the middle of the island in a house shut in by orange trees, vines and palmettoes lives Doctor Fred Patee, Dartmouth '88, formerly head of the English Department in Penn State." Bob Goodell has two sons, Robert teaching in Washington and Lee and John a captain in the U. S. Air Force.

A charming letter from Helen Chivers tells of the remarkable war activities of their boys. What they started out to be and what they have become shows how fickle war life can be. Warren, starting as a physical director at the prefiight school at Chapel Hill, N. C., becomes administrative officer at a base in French Morocco. Howard, first going into the indoctrination school at Dartmouth, is gunnery officer in the amphibious forces on an LST. Roland entered the Service in the glider school, which folded up, so he is in the Air Force. Our good friend, Art Chivers himself, outside of being tremendously busy with his laboratory work, has had a very interesting year making crude penicillin for the hospital. Helen has done some teaching for the New Hampshire League of Arts and Crafts and is much interested in "Early American Decoration of Trays and Furniture." That is a grand avocation.

Bob ("Bola") Clark has retired and lives and is quite a part of that enticing little town of Woodstock, Vt. He says he has found that: "Life in Republican Vermont is preferable to that of Democratic Pittsburgh:—Politics played the same but more subtly." He is a Trustee of Woodstock Associates Inc., member of the Village Improvement Society, and President of Board of Trustees of the First Congregational Church. One son, Major Robert B. Clark Jr. is in the Army.

It is with regret that we chronicle the death of another classmate, Dr. Sidney B. McCurdy, September 26, in East St. Johnsbury, Vt.; but it is with pride that xve tell his record. He practiced in Youngstown, Ohio, and was for eighteen years chief surgeon of the Youngs- town Steel and Tube Co. For five years he was medical director of the industrial commission of Ohio. Tn Word War I he was two years in the Medical Corps, serving overseas and winning the Croix de Guerre. We salute his memory.

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