1902

I have just returned from a delightful three months' vacation in the South, staying most of the time at the charmingly friendly hotel, The Colony; at Delray Beach, Fla. The hotel is managed by George Boughton, a Dartmouth alumnus and a fine fellow. I also too£ a three weeks' trip over to picturesque Jamaica. As no tourist ships were available, we had to leap over by air, and it is a glorious three and a half hour trip by the Pan American four engined stratosphere planes, traveling above half the length of Cuba at 1,250 feet. Not a jolt, not a bump and no ringing in the ears. Jamaica is indeed the most scenic of the Caribbean isles and at Montego Bay the beach is just gloriously lovely, with the clear buoyant salt water at a temperature of 79 degrees.

On my return I was saddened to hear of the death of two of our classmates, Dr. Arthur Pattrell and Bob Goodell.

Arthur Pattrell had spent his medical life as a psychiatrist. After graduating from Dartmouth Medical School in 1905 he was assistant physician at the Grafton, Mass., State Hospital until 1920, then executive officer at Boston Psychopathic Hospital until 1924; and since then at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, Towson, Md., as assistant medical superintendent. Art Ruggles writes us that he was a most faithful and able hospital executive, as we know he would be. He died December 17 last after a long illness.

Bob Goodell died March 12 of coronary thrombosis at West Palm Beach, Fla. He had retired some years ago and spent his winters in Florida.

There will be another of those grand, good reunions of the Five Classes, 1901 to 1905, this year. It will be held as usual at Schraffts, West Street, Boston, on May 10 at 6:30 P.M. Every 1902 man in New England should attend.

Secretary, 7 Ship Channel Rd., South Portland, Me Treasurer, Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.