The secretary enjoyed an hour's visit from Hilton recently. He has disposed of his beautiful Chicago home near the University of Chicago, which is to be used by their President. Hilton will retire July 1 and live on his farm at North Tewksbury, Mass., in the ancestral home next to that of his eldest daughter Katherine.
Word has just come of the death of Mrs. Charles Perkins, widow of our former class
secretary. Gerould's daughter Virginia, Mrs. Kay Macdonald, her son Alistair Gerould Macdonald (born January 30, 1946) and her husband, a lieutenant commander in the British Navy, are sailing early in April for Aberdeen, their permanent home. He is a Scottish lawyer who has been stationed in New York as naval officer. Another daughter of the Gerould's, Elisabeth (Mrs. T. A. Chadwick), now lives at Scarsdale, N. Y., with her son Curt, now five and a half, and her husband, employed at I. F. Larson's architects' office in New York City.
James W. Newton, who attended the funeral of Maurice F. Robinson in Winter Park, Fla., writes that there were four Dartmouth men present: himself. Dr. Vernon, Dr. Grover, whose brother was a classmate of Mr. Robinson, and George French '01. A floral tribute was sent in the name of the Dartmouth Club of Winter Park.
The class will be sorry to learn o£ the death of Will Eugene Reed who died January 26, 1946, at Guayaquil, Ecuador. He went to Ecuador as a missionary under the Gospel Missionary Union of Kansas City, Mo., in 1896. With the exception of five trips to the United States, he resided in Ecuador continuously for forty-nine years.
Secretary and Treasurer, 34 Gray St., Arlington 74, Mass