1890
By this time you have no doubt heard from Hanover the opening gun of the Alumni Fund crusade for this year, and the information has come to you that the financial goal set for 1947 is the same as last year, $350,000. You have also been told that it is hoped and expected that the Fund will reach a figure considerably above this, as the monetary need of the College demands such higher figure. Your class agent hopes that you will respond to this call as generously as possible, and also promptly. This promptness will save him headache, heartache and worry as to what the result will be when the collecting for the Fund ends the last of June. He also trusts that all who contributed in 1946 will do so again this year and that any who did not make subscription last year will find it a part of his duty to class and college to get on the honor list of 1947, a list which, it has been pointed out, gives the names of the contributors but never the amount.
One act of the Fund is to establish what they call a list of "Dartmouth Regulars." A Regular is one who has made ten successive gifts to the Fund. In our class there are seven members who come under this head and five more are counted as such because of memorial gifts donated by wives, thus keeping their husbands on this roll of honor. There are a number of '90 men who can easily become "Dartmouth Regulars" by donations for the next few years, and relatives can help to give such distinction to some of the class who have passed away. The present roster of Regulars who have made contributions for at least ten successive years are: Canty, Charles, Gerould, Hardy, Hilton,Pringle and Reynolds. Those members whose regularity has been maintained through memorial gifts are: Hanson, McDonald, Mathewson, Moses and Ruggles.
The editors of The Dartmouth should get some medal for great courage. They are to conduct a survey of the College from the standpoint of the student, and each undergraduate is to give his opinion of the college courses, the professors, the exams, the marking system, and other details of his present educational life. The student is to be given a printed questionnaire with questions proving the quality of Dartmouth teaching, assignments and examinations in all courses given during the past semester. He is asked to be perfectly frank in the opinions that he gives. The results will be published in the college paper as soon as they are tabulated. As a former managing editor of The Dartmouth, it makes me wonder what would have happened to the editors of that publication in our time if we had decided to adopt any such method of obtaining a picture of the College from the students' viewpoint. I am very much of the opinion that the result would have been disastrous to us. The willingness to have such a survey made shows real broadmindedness and tolerance on the part of those in charge of the present Dartmouth.
February 22, of George Earle. In college he was an upstanding and popular figure, a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, and an excellent scholar. After graduation he devoted himself to teaching and earned an enviable reputation as an educator. His last position was headmaster of the Hyde Park High School. Sad news has come that our living graduates have been reduced to twenty by the death, on
Perry Boynton is now crowning his medical career by his prowess as an agriculturist. His exploits in this direction are helping to bring new fame to the metropolis of New Town, Conn.
Pringle, who has retired from his long career in eliminating vice from our land, is now living a kind of double life down here in Washington, in living first with one son and then with the other.
WHILE ROUNDING UP PICTURES for the article on Shattuck Observatory, which appeared in the December issue, the editors came across the above reminder of the days when students were allowed to room in the Observatory in return for keeping the daily weather records. The student at the right was believed to be Frank B. Sanborn '87, and a communication from that distinguished alumnus not only verifies the belief but also identifies his floating roommate as the late Charles F. Chase '85 and contributes the following interesting reminiscences of their Observatory days:
Charlie Chase '85, resting in the hammock, and I (Sanborn '87), meditating at the desk, were for two years, '87 to '89, students of the Thayer School and custodians of the Observatory under supervision of Ed Frost '86.
Our jobs were to make observations and record weather conditions temperatures, rainfall, snow, wind, sunshine and clouds. Charlie was really Chief of Staff. He was the one to negotiate for teachers and girls of the F 8c M Sem. at West Leb to come to the Observatory to see the stars and the moon. We supplied cake and hot chocolate. I helped.
The picture does not do us justice—it shows two good-looking gents at ease, whereas we were hard-working students of the Thayer School.
After our education, Charlie developed an enviable record in engineering, business and good citizenship. He followed bridge and structural engineering; became Chief Draftsman, one of the founders and later President of the Berlin Construction Company (of Connecticut).
He resided in New Britain where he became Director of a National Bank, Senior Warden of the Episcopal Church, and Chairman of the City Water Commission.
As I look back to our days in the Thayer School, I remember my roommate as easy-going, methodical and making few mistakes. He carried these traits later into engineering, business and home life.
Active nearly to the end, which came December 26, 1945 at the age of 82 years, he left four children, all married, and a wife by a second marriage thirty-two years ago a family that cherishes the memory of a good life and a wise counselor.
Secretary and Treasurer, 2456 Tracy Place, N. W., Washington, D. C.
