1880

With only three classmates surviving, we had been for a long time looking forward to our 65th Reunion to be held at Hanover last June, but the fates decreed otherwise and our get-together was not to be.

The sudden death, by accident, of classmate, Davison of Oak Park, Ill., the last of May, while in apparent good health, and the continued illness from shock of the other classmate, Prof. Nathan W. Sanborn of Gainsville, Florida, and his subsequent passing away a few weeks later in July, terminated all further consideration of a reunion any time on earth.

The illness of classmate Sanborn had continued for several years. He had experienced two shocks which, while separately were not severe, had rendered him an invalid in his later years. He was for twenty-seven years a member of the faculty of the University of Florida, College of Agriculture, and a teacher of poultry husbandry. He was born May 7, 1859, at Marblehead, Mass. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1880. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and a member of the Presbyterrarr Church. Later he received a degree in medicine and practiced in Massachusetts for twenty-five years before going to Florida. He joined the faculty at the University of Florida in 1918 as poultryman with the State Agricul- tural Extension Service. In 1921 he became professor of poultry husbandry in the College and continued in active service for 14 years before retiring in 1935.in 1935 he attended the World's Poultry Congress at Ottawa, Canada, as a poultry expert and as a delegate from Florida and also attended a similar conference in London, England, in 1930, also as a delegate He conducted numerous experiments in the poultry line and bred a special strain of Rhode Island Reds while in charge of the University poultry flock, and contributed many professional articles to scientific magazines.

Prevented by distance from attending many Reunions, he never lost interest in old Dartmouth, and the class of 1880 and always responded promptly and generously to any calls made upon him by the secretary with whom he was in frequent correspondence.

He is survived by his widow, one son, two grandchildren (one in the United States Air Forces) and several great-grandchildren, some of whom are living in Idaho.

Secretary and Treasurer, 10 Post Office Sq., Boston, Mass.