1902

In the fall of 1898, five young men left the vicinity of Portland, Maine, for a college career at Hanover, N. H. The train trip was a weary one; change at Dover, change again at Rockingham Jet., change at Manchester, change at White River Jet., and then up the hill by coach. We all were to enter the class of 1902: Arthur Merrill, Louis Fitzpatrick, Clarence Holt, Ed Fletcher, Austin Goodwin, and myself. But it had been a hot dirty train trip and the glory of Dartmouth seemed a little dulled. We scarcely knew each other and the first few weeks the sophomores and Charlie Boyle seemed to be about all I remember meeting, and that was a hard reception committee. Now hazing is gone, thank Heaven, and the college gives you a better welcome.

Of the five of us, three are still in Portland and we have acquired another '02 man, Cofran, so you see Portland has always been an '02 town.

Clarence Holt is an optician and father of two fine boys, Eugene an ensign in the Navy and John a sergeant in the ground Air Force of the Army.

Ed Fletcher is in the investment business in Portland. He is happily married and has a daughter and two sons; one, Robert S., a lieutenant in the Army Air Intelligence Service.

Austin Goodwin went with us on our famous sophomore banquet to Montreal, and, by the way, if anyone remembers that at the Balmoral Castle, I wish he would write to me. Austin left '02 and Dartmouth there, and joined a Montreal paper as reporter, later coming to Portland where he has remained since. He is a crack-a-jack sporting editor and much beloved throughout the sporting circles of Maine. He is married but has no children. Do you remember freshman year when he wrote a theme so highly regarded by Professor Emery that he sent it down to Harvard?

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