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Born November 22, Susan Conant Faxon and David Parker Faxon, daughter and son of Frances Parker Faxon and Lt. William Otis Faxon 11, of the U. S. Navy, now with the fleet in foreign seas. Born on December 17, William Parker Rix, son of Mary Parker Rix and Doctor Robert Rix, Dartmouth graduate, formerly of the U. S. Navy, now an orthopedic physician practicing in Manchester, N. H. Thus our Doctor Dave had the unique distinction of becoming a grandfather three times within a month. Born December 16 in San Francisco, Joel Peter Benezet, son of Mrs. and Lt. Louis Benezet, now on Admiral Kincaid's Flagship somewhere in the Pacific.
Doc and Blanche Hawkes recently welcomed their fifth grandson.
Tim Lynch is spending the winter at the Carolina Hotel at Pinehurst, N. C. In a brochure containing a fine picture of him on the front page, is printed his "Farewell Address" to his teachers announcing his retirement in December from the Woodrow Wilson School in Dorchester of which he was the first principal. The conclusion: "I hope in my years of association with you that I haven't hurt anyone's feelings. I am leaving in good health and good spirits and I should be glad to have you all come down to Pinehurst, North Carolina, for the February vacation. I promise you a good dinner down there! Let me close with just one little line of Tiny Tim's that always appealed to me—'God Bless us, everyone!' "
Mary Lee Chase, daughter of Tedo, who has been in Washington for some time with the British Mission, has gone to England to carry on work similar to that she has been engaged in here. Her mother and . sister are in St. Johnsbury and young Teddy is in western Europe.
Among those listed in the December notes as attendants at the Class Dinner at the. University Club after the Dartmouth-Notre Dame football game, the name of Helen Kendall was inadvertently omitted. She was there as she always is at Ninety-nine family gatherings, sitting at the head of the table bewitching the presider with her perennial charm. Omission must have been a printer's error. How could the secretary ever forget her!
Lt. Roger W. Barney USNR, former pastor of Christ Church, North Conway, and St. Andrew's Church at Tamworth, N. H., is in the Pacific, a chaplain in a combat unit of the Marine Corps. More than six feet tall and redheaded, he is proving fully equal to his humane, heroic task.
Word has been received that Lt. Robert R. Woodward '39, son of Bones, has been reported missing in action. He is a navigator of a B-24 with the 15th AAF in Italy. His squadron recently received the Presidential Citation. We hope and pray that he made a safe landing somewhere.
December 31, The New York Times reprinted the famous letter of Major Frank Cavanaugh from a French battlefield shortly before Christmas, more than a quarter of a century ago, with the caption "A Christmas Letter Back Home." Said The Times: "It still is a most touching and inspiring letter, one that loses nothing of its heart-catching appeal in the re-reading. It brings the same lump to the throat, the same moisture to the eyes and the same grip at the emotions. The letter was a Christmas message to the then 10-year-old Dave, now one of the six Cavanaugh sons in service, and to appreciate it fully you must realize that old Cav was a gruff-spoken, hard-bitten and grim-visaged individual. Outwardly he was forbidding in appearance. Inwardly he was soft and sentimental."
On the third of next month will be celebrated an occasion unique in Dartmouth Alumni history. With no change in the date, always the first Saturday in March, and without a break, Ninety-nine has held its annual "Roundup" in Boston for forty-four years. The forty-fifth will be held as usual at the University Club, Boston, on March third, the first Saturday of next month. Notice by mail later but mark the date, now and plan to be there if possible.
Secretary, 229 West 43rd St., New York 18, N. Y. The New York Times
Treasurer, 18 Stoneland Roadway, Shrewsbury, Mass.
