1889

The Alumni Fund this year calls for an operating budget set at $350,000. Beyond this, Special Gifts—raised largely in an independent campaign—will be used in making possible the Hopkins Scholarships, the new auditorium building so badly needed, a modern physics laboratory, and other improvements delayed by the war. Let us accept the challenge with as much generosity as our means may allow. Remember, Hardy Ferguson has an important task to perform as our class agent. He deserves our hearty support.

A small group of loyal Dartmouth graduates living in Southern California have been holding monthly dinners at the University Club in San Diego since August 1944. Chester Flagg, the eldest of this group, has attended all of these gatherings, except one, which was due to illness. Chester may come East the latter part of April for a visit to his old home in Marblehead, Mass.

Troy, Ohio (in western part of the state), has long sent to Dartmouth a representative number of students for a town of its size. Jacob Joseph Wertheimer, who died January 6 last, was the first from there, when, in the fall of 1871, he entered Dartmouth as a member of the class of 1875, for which in recent years he served as class secretary. From that date until the graduation in 1889 of Walter S. Sullivan, who enrolled from Troy while in college, Dartmouth was never without one or more students from that town, all of whom became members of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity—so writes one of that number. William P. Kelly 'B6, of Greensboro, Vt„ now retired, belonged to that group. Troy, Ohio, has continued to send students to Dartmouth in later years.

"Doc" Warden, though living in the Far West, does not have to travel to get into the atmosphere of Dartmouth. In his home in Great Falls, Montana, he has a "Dartmouth Room" devoted entirely to his alma mater. On the walls are numerous framed photographs of class, fraternity and society groups taken at various stages of his college course, individual photographs, views about Hanover, his college and St. Johnsbury Academy diplomas, and many other reminders of those happy days of the past. One of his most prized possessions in that room is a large comfortable chair that he had in his room in Conant Hall while in college.

George R. Chamberlain, a member of our class (C.S.D.) freshman year, later entered Cornell University and graduated there with an M.E. degree in 1891. He became a member of the faculty of the College of Architecture at Cornell and was professor of freehand drawing until his death in 1929. In recognition of his having been a member of our class, and of the loyal affection he always felt for Dartmouth, Mrs. Chamberlain, his widow, who lives in Ithaca, N. Y., has recently presented to the Dartmouth College Library some of his choicest books on art.

Everett E. Robie '17, son of our late class mate, is principal of the Julia A. Stark and Glenbrook Schools, Stamford, Conn. During the recent war he acted as co-ordinator between the United States Armed Forces and the Connecticut State Board of Education. His son Richard, age 17, hopes to enter Dartmouth next fall, provided he is not taken into the Army.

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