1889
The class of '89 begins the academic year of 1946-7 with seventeen living members—veteran survivors of a class which had a total enrollment in undergraduate days of ninety men, sixty-one of whom were awarded degrees at Commencement.
The Alumni Fund Report of August 9 placed our class second among the forty-nine classes which exceeded their dollar objectives, giving our class credit for 386% of objective. A lusty Wah Hoo Wah for Hardy Ferguson for his splendid achievement.
Our venerable classmate Blanchard plans to spend the winter in Brookline, N. H., at the home of one of his five married daughters. He regrets not having been able to come to our June Reunion. In August he and his daughter, Mrs. Hartman, made a short visit to Hanover while on a motor trip. They drove about the town, saw the new houses being built for returned Gls and their wives, and the many changes and improvements were a constant source of remarks from him.
Chester Flagg came East late in June and spent the summer at his old home in Marblehead, Mass. He is in excellent health, having fully recovered from his operation last April. The occasional visits he and your secretary exchanged during the summer gave much pleasure to both. Miss Martha Flagg Emerson, his niece, who was his guest at Marblehead, will accompany him on his return West and will spend the winter at his home in San Diego, Calif.
In referring to the death of "Jabe" Ellis, it is interesting to recall the records he made as a long distance runner. In 1888, he set a new college record in the two-mile with the time of ten minutes, thirty-one and three-quarters seconds in an intramural meet in Hanover on May 14. The next week, in the New England Intercollegiates at Worcester, Mass., he bettered this time to ten minutes, twenty-four and eight-tenths seconds. In the spring of 1889, he lowered all previous records by running the two-mile in ten minutes, twenty-one and five-tenths seconds. This stood as a college record until 1903, when Carroll A. Campbell n'05 broke it by running three-tenths of a second faster.
Rev. Arthur Chase spent the summer at Branford, Conn., as usual. This fall he resumed his residence in Ware, Mass., where he served for forty years as Rector of Trinity Church, retiring in 1935. He is living at 18 Pleasant St.
We are indebted to Mr. Watson of Dartmouth Films for providing use of a projector and screen for showing lantern slides at our recent Reunion, and an operator to run them off. These lantern slides, 174 in number, have been presented to the College Library (Class of '89 section of its archives). They were made from photographs of '89 men taken senior year and their photographs taken thirty-two years later; slides showing Dartmouth professors, 1885-1889; views about Hanover in the late eighties; various class reunion groups; exercises attending the one hundredth anniversary of graduation from Dartmouth of Daniel Webster, class of 1801, etc.
George Bard, while visiting Cape Cod last July, called upon Ralph Doane at his home in Harwich Port. He was very cordially received and had an interesting chat with our classmate. He reports that Ralph enjoys reasonably good health, having led a life of outdoors, enlivened with field sports for which his home property and environment are well adapted. In August, while George was visiting relatives in Cambridge, Mass., on his eightyfirst birthday, he gave your secretary the pleasure of a call.
Dr. Theodore Russell Robie '22, youngest son of our classmate, was at the Lahey Clinic in Boston for a check-up in August and got in touch with your secretary. His physical condition was pronounced good. Dr. Robie, early in May, 1942, applied for a commission in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. He was commissioned a major and ordered to Kelly Field, Texas, where he was an integral part of the then newly developing San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center, which became one of three classification centers in the country. His responsibility, in his particular specialty of Psychiatry, consisted of selecting (or rejecting) men reporting to the field in the hope of becoming aviation cadets. Doctors were assigned to it for instruction in all fields of medicine in order that they might become efficient members of the Flight Surgeon group. As Chief of the Section of Neuropsychiatry, it was his job, with other responsibilities, to give these doctors a full course in Clinical Psychiatry. He had under his care many mental cases which developed on the field where he was stationed, and some from adjoining fields where hospital facilities were inadequate at the time because of rapid expansion. This required of him both treatment of patients and frequent appearances at Military Court proceedings where men of inadequate mental caliber were separated from the service. In February, 1943, after nine months of active service at San Antonio, and while deeply engrossed in medical duties, he developed an acute intestinal obstruction which necessitated an immediate operation. His condition was found to be such that he was kept on sick leave for several months. On August 28, 1943, he was sent on light duty to attend the course in Military Neuropsychiatry at Lamson General Hospital, Atlanta, Ga. While there his difficulty again developed. The Army needing active, able bodied men, he was retired from active duty on November 25, !943, on account of physical disability. A short time later a second operation was performed by a New York surgeon—a specialist in his particular rare disease—and within a few weeks he was able to return to active private practice of his profession, which he since has carried on. Dr. Robie is married, resides in Montclair, N. J., and has three daughters. The oldest is a student at the University of Michigan.
Secretary and Treasurer, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.
