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Every member of our class that can arrange to do so will be expected in Hanover Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17, to participate in and enjoy everything connected with the holding of our Fifty-fifth Reunion on those dates. Rooms and table d'hote meals at the Hanover Inn will be provided at a special rate for all requiring such, and this includes wives, widows of deceased classmates, and other family members of our group who may honor us with their attendance.
Mr. Harold G. Rugg, Assistant Librarian of the College Library, has expressed the hope that he may have the pleasure of meeting members of our reunion group in the Library and extending all possible privileges.
Doc Warden. Sully, George Bard and Handy Ferguson lunched together at a club in New York on April 21 last and spent several delightful hours that afternoon just visiting-talking over old times and making plans for our Fifty-fith Reunion. All were most enthusiastic over the prospects of having a good attendance at the coming Reunion. Doc was in New York attending a Directors' Meeting of the Associated Press and a Convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. He planned to visit Washington, D. C., before returning to his home in Great Falls, Montana.
Insects infesting cranberry bogs will deprive us the pleasure of welcoming Ralph W. Doane to our reunion. He reports that your secretary has aroused in him a desire to attend the Reunion, but he finds it impossible since at that time his cranberry bogs have to be watched daily for a worm that would destroy a crop in forty-eight hours if not sprayed with a poison as soon as they hatched.
Hardy Ferguson's May 3rd report as class agent is most gratifying. To put our class at the very front line let every living member stand back of him 100% by contributing something, however small the amount may be, for those whose resources are already heavily drawn upon. The few who have not yet responded are reminded not to longer delay. The Fund campaign is about to close.
George F. Sparhawk died at his home in Beaver, Penn., the early morning of May 3. He had been in poor health for a long time. He was a loyal member of the class of 'B9 which (to use Mrs. Sparhawk's words) "he loved above everything." See obituary notice in this issue.
Few, if any, of our class have influenced as many boys to go to Dartmouth as did Willis Earle. Here are a few graduates of Dartmouth who followed his recommendation: Henry L. Harter '24; George E. Leyser '26; Thomas V. Gillespie '27; Theodore A. Girault '27; John H. Greener '27; Herbert Rubin '27. During the thirty-five years that Earle was a teacher at the Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, N. Y., from which he retired in 1933, he occasionally assisted individuals financially to enable them to go to college. Among those assisted is a prominent official of New York City whom he financed through Columbia University. Earle never married.
Mrs. Charles Downer Hazen since June, 1942, has been living at the Colony Club, 564 Park Avenue, New York. During her husband's lifetime they resided at 42 East 75th St. Mrs. Hazen, now in uniform, is daily engaged in war work at the National Navy League in New York.
"E. B." Davis, in his retirement, keeps on going amid the classic environment of Rutgers University, where he long served as one of its popular professors. Occasionally his contributions to the press appear in the New York Sun. In its issue of April 21, 1944, was an interesting article written by him, dealing with racial discrimination, entitled: "Wartime Prejudice."
The National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, Vt., in its statement dated March 31, 1944, discloses the fact that Clarence E. Moulton of our class, previously reported as retired, is still active in business and now holds the important position in that company as member of its committee on finance. Other Dartmouth men holding office in the company are: Fred A. Howland 'B7, Ernest M. Hopkins 'Ol, John R. McLane 'O7, who are directors. Also the following: George E. Allen, M.D. 'lO, Assistant Medical Director; Roy L. Johnson 10'l7, Superintendent of Supplies; Andrew J. Oberlander M.D. '26, Assistant Medical Director, now serving in the United States Navy.
Secretary and Treasurer, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.
