1889

It is with deep regret that we record the death of Dr. Nathaniel K. Noyes on April 12. He was the first of those attending our Fifty-fifth Reunion last June to pass on. Of our seven members who entered the medical profession, he outlived them all. Nat, as he was affectionately known by his classmates, was a loyal 'Bger and rarely missed attending our Reunions. For obituary, see In Memoriam.

In our '89 family group is the energetic, public-spirited Mrs. Burt H. Redfield of Dover, N. H. More than two years ago she applied for admission to take the Emergency Training Program for National Defense. She was promptly accepted, completed the course and received a certificate rating her as a machine operator. Soon she was called for duty, then a second call came, but each time she was obliged to decline on account of her "husband's critical illness. Last fall, after his .death, another call came. She worked a short ■time when she took a physical examination, passed it, and was sworn in as a member of the Navy. Since then she has been engaged in highly technical work with micrometers, -gauges, and machines requiring skill and responsibility. From the. beginning of civilian defense activities Mrs. Redfield has served as .canteen chairman of the Dover (N. H.), Chapiter of the American Red Cross, doing the planning and purchasing of all supplies, food, •etc., and for fourteen years she has been treasurer of the Woman's Club in Dover. This member of our group also finds time to have a Victory Garden, in addition to her household duties.

Ned Dearborn has presented to the Library of Dartmouth College a book of his personal reminiscences. He has given it the modest title Accretions of a Minor Naturalist. Apart from the interesting and valuable information it contains, its originality is unique. It is a book with cloth-bound covers, the corners of -which have metal protectors cleverly fashioned from pieces of salvaged tin. It is entirely his own work—"assembled from plumbago to paste by one pair of hands," as he puts it. There are 250 personally typewritten pages, the last 35 of which are devoted to pictorial proof of subject matter in the text, consisting of 149 mounted original photographs, each numbered consecutively from 1 to 149. By an ingenious method of indexing, on a sheet opposite each photograph, its number is given, •followed by a description of what is shown in the photograph, then comes a numeral which denotes the number of the page in the text where may be found the subject matter described, the latter being underscored by dots to facilitate finding. It is a splendid model of handiwork. The tremendous amount of research, study and time involved in gathering material for a work of such originality and interest covering a wide variety of subjects is impressive. The preparation of the text alone without the assistance of a secretary, a typist, .a photographer, a book-binder, characterizes the Versatility of this erstwhile farmer, collegian, mechanic, ornithologist, mammalogist, vagrant and teacher.

In making this presentation to the College Library, he not only has contributed for jits archives information not commonly known on subjects in which he is outstanding, but he has provided for the preservation of that information in a form having a personal touch that is unique.

The sad news has been received that Commander James Sturgis Willis USN,. a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, class of 1927, was killed in action in April while commanding a division of destroyers in the Pacific. He was the husband of Martha Morton Knight, youngest daughter of our late classmate, Harold W. Knight. (See class notes in issue of February last.)

Four scholarship funds totaling $25,000 for deserving New Hampshire boys, preferably from small towns or rural sections, have been established at the University of New Hampshire by the family of our late classmate, James A. Wellman. The fund, to be known as the James A. Wellman Memorial Scholarship Fund, was contributed by Mrs. Wellman: her daughters, Miss Harriet Vincent Wellman and Mrs. Dorothy Wellman Burroughs; and the latter's husband, Robert P. Burroughs, Dartmouth '2l.

Secretary and Treasurer, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.