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The Alumni Fund campaign is now on. Contribute promptly, generously. Give your best support to Hardy Ferguson, our class agent, in his important task. Should your name not appear upon list of 1944 contributors published in this MAGAZINE for January, now is your opportunity to have it included in list of contributors for this year. Donations made in memory of deceased classmates a splendid token of remembranceare gratefully received.
In freshman year our class had a total registration of eighty-five members, which included students in the Chandler Scientific Department. Two of these—Dillon and Abbott died while in college. During the first twenty-five years after graduation twelve deaths occurred. On March 28, 1915, Harold W. Knight was the thirteenth to die, leaving a wife—the former Martha Morton Hogeman and four children. Mrs. Knight, who resides at 1319 Quarrier St., Charleston, W. Va., sent your secretary several months ago an interesting report on her family. It was supplemented by additional information on a rather recent date. All of "Hal" Knight's four children are now living. The eldest, Anne Hogeman Knight, graduated from Wellesley College in 1926. She spent the following year at New York University for study in the field of child psychology. Later she taught Kindergarten for three years. Since then she has traveled extensively and done volunteer work in family welfare, residing in recent years in a house she built near White Sulphur Springs. For the past two years she has been in Alexandria, Va., where she has the Virginia desk as administrative assistant in the Eastern area of the Red Cross. Nearly a thousand people from all parts of the country are hard at work there in an enormous office from 8:30 A.M. until 5 P.M. daily, including, as volunteer workers, wives of Army generals now in foreign service, and women with years of Red Cross experience. William H. Knight, next in age, Dartmouth n. '31, is associated with the Virginian Electric, Inc., a company of which "Hal" Knight was one of the original incorporators about forty-two years ago. The president of this company is his first cousin, Edward Dana Knight '16, son of Edward W. Knight '87. He is married, resides in Charleston, W. Va., and has three children: William Hogeman, ten; Nancy Lee, seven; and Martha, four. Harold W. Knight Jr., third in age, Dartmouth n. '31 is service manager of the Appalachian Electric Power Co., with which he has been connected since leaving college. He is married, resides in Charleston, W. Va., and has an only child, a son of fourteen, Harold W. Knight 3rd, now a student at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. Martha M. Knight, youngest child, was a student at Wellesley College for two years—from 1926 to 1928. She is affectionately known as "Pat" by her family and intimate friends. She is married to Commander James Sturgis Willis USN, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. During the greater part of the past two years Commander Willis has been in command of a destroyer operating in the South Pacific, during a portion of which time Mrs. Willis and her two children, James Sturgis Willis Jr., twelve, and Anne Ruffner Willis, ten, lived with Mrs. Willis' mother in Charleston. Last June Mrs. Willis took up her residence in Massachusetts, near Boston, while her husband's ship was being commissioned in Boston Harbor, outfitted and on a "shakedown" cruise. Soon afterwards Commander Willis was ordered back to the South Pacific. He had been rather sure that he would not be sent so far away again, and for that reason had his wife and children settle in Massachusetts, but Navy wives are accustomed to such disappointments. Both of "Hal" Knight's sons, so far as the Army and Navy are concerned, are in a deferred class, William because of age, Harold because of his employment.
"Fifty Years After," published by the class of '94 last summer, sets a high standard for class books issued in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of Graduation. The committee on publication, led by Philip Marden, merits the praise generously given for its excellent work. The class of '94 and our class not only hold their reunions the same year (at the end of each five-year period), but we are linked by ties of family relationship in several instances. David Blakely was a brother of Quincy Blakely; Chester Curtis was a brother of Alvah Curtis; Sherman Hobbs was a first cousin of Bertrand Smalley and his brother Fred, their mothers having been sisters; your secretary, the only connecting link of our class now living, is a brother of Rolla Bartlett, and Alfred Bartlett was his first cousin. An odd coincidence—only one of these '89 men now living, and only one of the '94 men dead.
The death is announced of Wilhelmina (Pingree) Allen, widow of our classmate, Frederick J. Allen, on December 21 in Framingham, Mass. (See class notes, December 1944 issue.)
The winter address of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Hazen is 629 Western Ave., Downey, Calif. It being quite near Santa Ana, the home of Alec Nelson, "Fush" plans to go to see him.
A letter from Blanchard was received soon after the death of Sherman Hobbs, whom he referred to as "a good member of our class." Since college days they had continued to occasionally see each other. When Mrs. Hobbs died a few years ago Blanchard officiated at her funeral. Although in his eighty-sixth year his letters continue to be in his own handwriting.
Chester Flagg attended a gathering of Dartmouth men in San Diego, Calif., on December 6. Eighteen were present, including a grandson of Dr. John M. Gile 'B7, and a grandson of Dr. Gilman D. Frost 'B6, who recently had been discharged from the Naval Hospital in San Diego and was returning to Dartmouth for a further course.
THE SECRETARY OF '87, Stanley Edwards Johnson, is pictured above in the attire his father wore on his honeymoon in 1847.
Secretary and Treasurer, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.
