1888

Hardy, in addition to other accomplishments, for two years has been supervisor of education of four grandchildren, while his younger son John (Dartmouth '22) was in military service. After graduation at Dartmouth and further study at Thayer School and Columbia, John entered his father's office in New York. In 1942 he enlisted in the Ordnance Dept., AUS, was made a captain, took the basic course at Aberdeen, Md„ and spent the first year at the Ammunition Loading Plant at Ellwood, 111.; the second year as one of the department heads at headquarters of the Western District in St. Louis. His three boys were sent to Exeter, two in the Academy and one in the Emerson School, preparing for the Academy. The daughter is at Kent Place Academy, Summit, N. J. John, the oldest boy, who for his lively antics at our Fifty-Year Reunion was made an honorary member of 'BB at the Class Dinner, will complete the college requirements at Exeter this coming fall, when he comes of draft age. That all the 18-year-olds may be spared that ordeal by November is the fond hope of the nation! John is headed for M.I.T. A monthly visit to Exeter by Hardy to see his grandchildren also gives a chance for a reunion with John Lew Clark at the same time.

Hardy's older son George Jr. had just passed his college entrance examinations when World War I began. He spent two years in France, and now is publisher of the local newspaper at Pas a Grille, Fla. His oldest boy, while a senior in the St. Petersburg High School, was one of 40 winners out of 1800 contestants for the Westinghouse Electric Science Competition, and entered California Institute of Technology in March 1944. He will complete his sophomore year in July of this year, when he also becomes of draft age. The other two children are in Florida schools.

Richard Paul, our classmate during freshman year, went West and graduated in Law at the University of Minnesota. He became a patent lawyer, and was in partnership with his brother until his brother's death in 1936. Paul has now retired from practice and spent last winter with Mrs. Paul at Phoenix, Ariz. Their 50-year wedding anniversary was celebrated at Jasper Park in the Canadian Rockies in 1942. In a letter to the secretary Paul enclosed a newspaper picture of Charles A. Sawyer, a Minneapolis lawyer and son of our Charles L. ("Tom") Sawyer 'BB. A glance at this picture shows that the son embodies the vigor of his father, one of our outstanding personalities and most popular classmates.

A century ago the writer's father, Isaac Williams Lougee, received his Dartmouth Medical Diploma, and on the anniversary day it was brought out for inspection. It is dated May 16, 1845, the year before the first surgical operation with ether for an anaesthetic was done at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. It is signed by President Nathan Lord, and a well known Medical faculty of that era, the most famous member being Dixi Crosby, professor of surgery, whose home is the nucleus of Crosby Hall. In addition to his degree, Hanover endowed him with typhoid fever as he left for home on the stage coach, the disease was all but fatal, but it immunized him for the forty-seven years of practice that followed his recovery. The College Seal is attached to the genuine sheepskin by a faded blue ribbon. The Seal's die, made in 1773, was sharp and partly cut through the diploma, a fault not found in the diplomas of his two sons, where the imprint is barely legible; but there is greater legibility on the diplomas of his two grandsons. The blue ribbon on Dartmouth diplomas was discarded in 1876, when the screw press that worked the seal die was replaced by a modern lever handle. The Doctor returned to Hanover our freshman year, after an absence of forty years, and made the terse comment that the only change he saw in the town was "a new dome on the Medical College."

Fairbanks writes most kindly of our new class set-up, but tells too little about himself. He is at his old home in St. Johnsbury, Vt., and we can only surmise that after his years of residence in England he finds the Gulf Stream does not flow up the Connecticut River Valley to temper the winter of his native town. The spring, however, compensates with an attenuated form of the good old maple syrup on which he was "raised."

Belated news of the death of Mrs. Ida M. Whittemore, widow of our classmate Frederick A. Whittemore, has just been received. She died in her 89th year at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, Jan. 23, 1945, after a short illness. Mrs. Whittemore has always been identified with the class of '88, as the Whittemores were married when they came to Hanover. They lived in the Crosby House, and she was hostess and friend to all the Class during college years, and many times attended our reunions. Of the family we hope to report later.

Secretary, 135 Summer St., Maiden, Mass.

Treasurer, WENDELL WILUAMS 32 Claflin St., Milford, Mass.