1886

Biff and Billie conferred with class secretaries, and others, in Hanover, June 9 and 10. Biff then went to Greensboro, Vt. Billie spent an evening in Hanover with a son of our Billy Williams and attended the funeral of Edwin A. Bayley '85, in Newbury, Vt. On his way to Auburndale, Mass., he spent a night with Spud Smith in Hudson, and the next day with the family of Spud's son, Dr. Henry G. Smith, Dartmouth '17, in Nashua, N. H., whose daughter, Betty, is to serve as assistant dietitian in Skidmore College next fall.

The following notes are taken from recent letters to Newton and myself. Howard says: "I am going along the same as ever, only I find it taxes what strength I have a little harder all the time."

Mrs. Rose says: "Mr. Rose had a comfortable winter but does not come down stairs and does not see many people."

A nephew of Wales says: "He is confined to his chair by day and his bed by night, but he eats and sleeps well."

Pete: "I have been housed all winter but am out every day now."

Mary Frase: "I am planting 300 feet of roses on the main street of Williams Bay as a memorial to Ed."

Mrs. Fitts says that Marden's grandson, Bill Jr., is a pilot in Italy.

Mrs. John French: "My son John is in the O.S.S. in London."

Dr. Ransom is on a vacation in the East, after 14 months as resident physician in a hospital near Riverside, Cal., to which he has promised to return as soon as possible.

Mrs. Jenks writes that Babette, daughter of Ruth Jenks Roklan, is a W.A.S.P. and recently flew a bombing plane up the California coast over her mother's house in Carmel. Then Ruth went into the house and wrote this poem: Winged Youth to B. J. D.

Oh Youth! with faith's undaunted fight Transcending turbulence in flight, God keep you singing, soaring, free-Maintain your birthright, Liberty!

Mrs. Stetson writes that her oldest grandson, Stanley F. Alger Jr., will enter Dartmouth in the fall as a graduate from the "Walter Sampson Memorial High School" of Middleboro, Mass. Our Sampson also graduated from this high school and, in 1914, had been its principal for 25 years. In the school report for that year it is recorded that of the 687 graduates up to that time, Sampson had graduated 543. Surely our Sampy is not without honor in his home town.

BACK FOR THEIR 55TH REUNION, members of the Class of 1889 gather on the steps of Wilson Hall where their freshman class picture was taken in September 1885. Front row (I. to r.) : Ralph S. Bartlett, class secretary-treasurer; Mr. and Mrs. Oliver S. Warden, Henry P. Blair, class president; Rev. Arthur Chase, Dr. and Mrs. Nathaniel K. Noyes, and George P. Bard. Back row (I. to r.) : Prof. Edwin B. Davis, Harry M. Frost, Mrs. Mabel A. Taylor (friend of Mr. Frost's family), Hardy S. Ferguson, Ned Dearborn, and Clarence E. Moulton.

Secretary, 215 Walnut Street, Montclair, N. J.