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Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Hazen late last fall went to Long Beach, ( alii., to spend the winter. While there, "Fush" intended to go to near-by Santa Ana to see Alec Nelson. In midwinter, however, their visit at Long Beach was terminated when "Fush" was taken ill and an operation (which later proved to be a rather minor one) became necessary. For the operation they went to Logan, Utah, where their son lives. After his speedy recovery, they decided to return home instead of going back to Long Beach for the remainder of the winter. They arrived back at their home in Lewistown, Montana, in the midst of a raging snowstorm and severe cold weather. Their son, Richard E. Hazen '20, is in the farm implement business and successful. He is married and has two children, a girl, in the first year of college, and a son, in the third year of high school.
The annual Boston dinner of Dartmouth Alumni, held at the Copley Plaza the evening of February 25, was a great success. The large ballroom was filled to capacity, nearly one thousand being present. President Dickey and Frank B. Wallis '25, Boston lawyer, who helped present the American case at the Nurenberg trials in Germany, were the speakers. Parkinson, secretary of the class of '78, was the oldest alumnus present. Graduates in the eighties, seated at the same table, were Perry 'BO, Briggs '85, Cushman '87, and Bartlett '89. Also at this table were Bacon '90 and Rowe '91.
A book entitled The Cap'n's Wife, published late in 1946 by the Syracuse University Press, contains the diary of Didama Doane (of West Harwich, Mass., wife of Captain Uriel Doane) on a two-year voyage with her husband aboard the ship Rival, 1866-68. It also contains the log of the clipper Granger, Uriel Doane, Master, from Liverpool, bound for Manila, lost on Swallow Rock, October 24, 1877. For readers fond of tales of sea-life adventure and intimate life-pictures of Cape Cod folk, this is an entertaining book. Reading a review of it in the Book Supplement of a recent New York Sunday Times, your secretary mailed it, without comment, to Ralph Doane, hoping it would elicit from him some information regarding it. The following is his reply, dated February 9, from Harwichport.
I thank you for the paper containing a review of the book The Cap'n's Wife\ giving seafaring experiences of Didama, the captain's wife. "Di," as we called her, was one of my many own cousins, her mother being one of my father's sisters. She married Captain Uriel Doanefrom a distant branch of the old Doane family. This story could apply to many Cape Cod women of that period, when about all Cape men went to sea. My father had three brothers—all sea captains—and five sisters, each of whom married a sea captain. I have often wondered where the captains got their education. They used good language, and could figure out most anything in ordinary mathematics. My father went to sea when eleven years old, and was captain of a schooner when twenty. The schooner was of two masts arid of four hundred tons capacity. In this little schooner he made two trips to England and the Mediterranean ports; now yachts coming over here to race that are fully as large have to be convoyed. I think my father loved sea life, as he told me there was something majestic in handling a vessel to overcome high winds and storms. On long voyages he spent much time reading the Bible, Shakespeare and Lord Byron—which he called his three Bibles—and on any happening he could quote from one or the other something appropriate. One might think he had learned it word by word. It was just a gift of a wonderful memory. When a youngster I liked to go to a store where some of the old captains would gather, and listen to the seafaring experiences they would relate. It is all different here now, all of the old families are gone and many new ones have come in, so I don't know half the people I meet. I am living alone in a fourteen-room house since my sister died four years ago this month. When spring opens and I can start my gardens and enjoy nature's development of life, it will be a pleasure. Hope you are enjoying good health. With kindest regards.
WITH RUSSIAN RELATIONS very much in the news, the above shot of Class Secretary Ralph S. Bartlett 'B9, taken in 1933 in the Caucasus, proves that 'B9 early had their diplomat in the field.
Secretary and Treasurer, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.
