1907

Early in June the Class Secretary received a message from Ned Oakford '06 that our classmate, James W. Wallace, died on June 6 at his summer home at Stormville, Dutchess County, N. Y. Oakford has been an intimate friend of Jim for many years, in college and since. Knowing that Jimmy had not been in close contact with many of his college friends and classmates, he volunteered to write the following informative and affectionate words about his friend and our classmate, for which the Secretary expresses grateful appreciation.

"James W. Wallace '07 will be remembered for qualities which he retained to the last (June 6, '46) in spite of several years of critical illness. For instance, even his most recent letters were in that jaunty, jocular tone you will all remember although, as I have since learned, he had suffered numerous paralytic strokes. The last took place on soil he had cultivated lovingly through many ardent summers, grateful soil in a beautiful valley of the Stormville range of the Berkshires which cuts across Dutchess County, N. Y. That was their "Homestead" as he and Mrs. Wallace called it, and it took the place of children in their affections.

"Except that Jim's long, wavey hair had turned almost white, his looks, like his temperament and his gallant spirit, had not changed much since college days. Nor did his memory of classmates and friends at Dartmouth. Some of them will remember also his wife, Myriam, who survives him. She is the sister of Halsey Loder '05.

"Their home has been in New York City since Jim, after being successively actor and director with the Fireside Players of White Plains, N. Y., happily surrendered to the lure of the theatre. Too small for lead roles, he became better known to actors than to audiences. And best known as stage director of Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, Morris Gest's The Miracle and House of Shadows. Since those successes of the Nineteen-Twenties, except for playing small parts in support of many leading actors and actresses, Jim's interest has been in dramatic writing, and, of course, in his farm home. The work of body and mind fit well together, each, however, precluding more than casual sociability.

"But Jim's enthusiasm for Dartmouth was represented there by four or five nephews, the sons of his sister, Mrs. Glion Curtis, of St. Louis, which, it will be remembered, was Jim's home town."

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