1882

A letter received recently from Lt. Charles D. Webster stated that his uncle Charles R. Webster of Chicago passed away on the eighteenth of May rather suddenly at his home at Evanston, Ill. Webster was the youngest member of the class of 1882, and forty years an attorney in Chicago. He was a member of the firm of Bayley, Webster, Gregory & Hunter, of 19 South LaSalle St., Chicago.

The letter states, "He was the son of John C. Webster, class of 1832, grandson of Josiah Webster, class of 1798, and he was responsible for my entering Dartmouth where I graduated in 1926. His interest in Dartmouth came of strong heritage and remained vigorous and affectionate to his death."

Webster was fortunate in notable ancestry, being a descendant of Daniel Webster, and Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

The muse of our oldest classmate, Jack Lawrence of East Norwalk, Conn., the products of which have several times appeared in this column, has busied itself of late with history, and must have devoted much time to its portrayal. Jack writes: "Your last informa- tion in the Dartmouth ALUMNI MAGAZINE brought me a request for a duplicate on 'Ye Olden Norwalk' from the College Librarian; I had already completed another on 'Norwalk Within The Century,' in verse. The latter I have had bound in Mss. It contains some fifty pages of happenings during the period named.

"This also I shall present to the East Norwalk Library Association. I have also completed what may be my last (?) entitled, Fields X Have Gleaned," of one hundred fifty pages. So you see I am not wasting my time."

The five (5) members of the class of '82 that graduated are in reasonable health so far as heard from: Dewitt, in Texas, Comer in Virginia, Partridge in Long Island, N. Y., Lawrence in Connecticut, Kelly in Massachusetts. They seem to stick fairly close to the coast line of the country.

Secretary and Treasurer, 14 Marion Terrace, Brookline 46, Mass.