1903

Just a week before Ernest Groves died he and Gladys came down from Boston and made us a most pleasurable call. Ernest had been working hard at Boston University in preparing the way for a course in marriage and family relations. The intense heat of July, the unexpected enormous classes, the difficulties in getting printing and especially text books out in time, the delivery of daily lectures in a large auditorium, made Ernest a tired man, and when I saw him a week after the end of his labors, he showed the effects. With it all be was vitally interested in Dartmouth and our Reunion. He regretted that he could not have been present. In speaking of his future, although he had passed the retirement age, he thought he should continue in his work, for he enjoyed it, and the doctors had told him that he was good for many years to come. In talking of the Reunion I related the Ned Kenerson yarn about Groves coaching him through his final exam in psychology, and what Prof. Horne said to him after the exam, about his underestimation of his intelligence as manifested by his understanding of psychology. Ernest remembered it all and got a hearty laugh from the incident.

A family record—the daughter of the first Treasurer of Dartmouth married Olcutt (Dart.), his daughter married Bell (Dart.), his daughter married Howe (Dart.), his daughter Doe (Dart.), and his daughter Groves (Dart. 1903). Is there a longer Dartmouth family record?

Herbert Kelley, our retired Naval Med. Corps Captain, accompanied by Frances came East this last September to attend his mother's 90th birthday at Franklin, N. H. Because I was at camp, within 14 miles of Mrs. Kelley's home, Uncle Sam became confused and failed to forward my mail until after Kel and Frances were on their way back to California. Shall I vote as Mr. Hannegan P G wants me to vote?

And here comes Pip Howard with the news that he has a second child calling him Grandpap: Little Jane Meriam MacDuff was born August 28, 1946, at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Rhoda Howard MacDuff we all remember as a regular at our Reunions in the earlier days, and we all extend congratulations to the family, including Jane and Pip.

Clarence G. Howes of New York City has been detected within the confines of Hanover since our Reunion, as of August 14 and 15. C.G. had a pretty good time at Reunion and we are glad he felt he had to go back.

Harold Hess and wife stopped at Hanover on their wav to a rest at Sugar Hill, August 16.

One of the most welcome fellows to appear at Reunion was George Reed of Montpelier, Vt., although he had been severely crippled by arthritis for several years, made the trip with the enthusiasm and smile that have always been a characteristic of George's personality. During a talk-fest Orvil Smith snapped his camera, which caught George showing those two characteristics to perfection. Those films should be preserved.

THE LATE Arthur S. Kimball 'OO, in whose memory the Calhoun County (Michigan) Public Hospital has been recently named.

Secretary, 198 Humphrey St., Marblehead, Mass.

Treasurer, 85 John St., New York 7, N. Y.