1893

At the Boston Dartmouth alumni dinner on February 3, Morrill, Griffith and your secretary represented '93. It was an intensely interesting and entertaining meeting.

Griffith's daughter Katharine Hope, with her family are now living at 31 Pilgrim Road, Waban, Mass., and "Eddie" and Mrs. Griffith have recently been visiting with them. She is Mrs. Emory C. Mower; her husband is now a major in the United States Army.

The new sixty-million-dollar aircraft carrier USS Hancock was launched January 24, 1944, at the Bethlehem Fore River Shipyards in Quincy, Mass. This finest carrier in the Navy was paid for from the sale of War Bonds by the John Hancock Life Insurance Company's family, of which, as you all know, our '93 President Cox is the head. Accounts and pictures of numerous gatherings and dinners have appeared in the Boston papers in connection with this event, and the central figure in each case was "our Guy."

Sad news from Arnold is that his son Vernet, Dartmouth '20, passed away December 13, 1943, and that Arnold himself is in not too good health, residing at 233-5111 St. North, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Corrections under Kellar in "DARTMOUTH 1893 in 1943": Delete "and at Albany" and add "he spent seven years at Albany as editor of mathematical text books, and one and one-half years as surveyor under the Army engineers." Also add "Was author of 'Practical Star Maps,' 'Alt-Azimuth Star Maps' and 'Glossary of Surveying and Cartographic Terms in English, Spanish and Portugese,' as well as of various navigation devices. His daughter Mary Harriet graduated from Columbia University with two degrees." Add also that his first wife, Mary Westrop Pearce, died in 1933, and in 1936 he married Edna F. Atkinson, his present wife. His son John Gilbert K. Jr. is now living in Florida, and daughter, now Mrs. Henry B. Stensland, in Alaska.

John writes that for ten years he has been a member of the American branch of the Geophysical Union, Section of Geodesy, and that he is leading a quiet, retired life, trying to keep down a high blood pressure. He belongs to two societies of writers in Washington. He hopes that the rest of us will outlast the war, so that he may get to see us!

Dr. Martyn calls our attention to the fact that Julius Irving Read is reported, in the 1940 Dartmouth General Catalogue under class of 1894, as being in the real estate business and living in Oakland, Calif. Dr. Charles C. Merrill, secretary of '94, advises us that Julius is, in fact, living there now. We feel very badly that in error we listed him with those of '93 who have passed on.

Secretary, 795 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Mass. Treasurer, 20 Albion Street, Melrose, Mass.