1895

In the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE I mentioned several Dartmouth alumni whom I met in Winter Park, Fla., in April. I just missed seeing Joel and Mrs. Harley, which was a disappointment. I understand that they plan to spend next winter, all of it, at the Florida home of Rollins College, to wit; Winter Park.

I think John Lord, Jesse Marden and "Dud" West, of our class, who are also graduates of St. Johnsbury Academy, will be interested to know that Frances Atkinson, St. Johnsbury Academy '9l, and her two sisters have a home in Winter Park to which they drive very soon after frost whitens the pumpkin vines in Newburg, Vt., their ancestral home. Frances and I talked glibly and with much human interest about our almost secluded life at St. Johnsbury Academy, and traded anecdotes in regard to our schoolmates and particularly our classmates. I didn't venture to ask Frances why she never married, but I'm still wondering why.

The Dekes of '95 will be interested sympathetically, perhaps, to know that Quincy Blakeley's widow spent the cold weather months at Winter Park. For the first time in her life she was a passenger in an airplane, returning home by plane in April. Mrs. Stevens and I drove to the Orlando Air Port and saw Mary B. enclosed in the cabin of a big airship and flying upward and onward out of sight.

I spent a long evening with another '94 man, Edwin O. Grover, vice president of Rollins College, and also Professor of Books there. Many of us knew "Eddie" Grover at Dartmouth. His career as an editor, a publisher, and teacher of books as well as a college executive has been notable and rather unique. He is the originator of The Animated Magazine, the only periodical of its kind in the United States, I believe. If rugged individualism is politically obnoxious to the New Deal, now worn to hunger and rags, then Professor Grover must be a target.

The above is not wholly news of and within our class, but it interests me as a Dartmouth '95er and perhaps it will interest others likewise.

I have just learned of the death of classmate Walter R. Lewis. He and Mrs. Lewis had planned to attend our 50th Reunion. Transportation difficulties prevented. Walter's obituary will appear in the In Memoriam section.

Secretary, White River Junction, Vt. Treasurer, PROF, CHARLES A. HOLDEN Hanover, N. H.