1889

George Bard has retired from active business and has gone to Tennessee to live with his married son, Robert J. Bard '19, with address at 217 Lauderdale Road, Nashville.

The Alumni Fund Report of August 5, covering subscriptions of 64 classes, lists our class 3rd in class ranking on Percentage of Objective —with 385% of Objective; and sth in class ranking on Participation Index—a splendid achievement for our veteran leader, HardyFerguson.

Arthur Chase spent the summer, as usual, at his cottage at Branford, Conn. During the latter part of June and early July a roaring fire in the fire-place was needed for cheer and comfort, but the warm days that followed made a daily swim in the waters of Long Island Sound a delight. Arthur writes that during the past 56 years he has always gone swimming either at Branford, or, when abroad, in the Swiss lakes, and he hopes to continue it a few summers longer.

Ralph Doane during the summer had carpenters and painters put his old family homestead in Harwichport, Mass., in order from the damage done to it in a violent storm last spring. He was much pleased to receive in June the letter from Hanover bearing the signatures of his classmates gathered there. His daughter Miss Sylvia Gladys Doane, upon whom he much relies, occasionally writes and telephones your secretary. In a recent letter she refers to their having an antique shop—shed-shop, originally started in the carriage shed. Doane also has his cranberry interests, his gardens to care for, etc.

John Burrage Blakely, son of Mrs. Amy Blakely and the late Dr. David N. Blakely, died at his home in Brookline, Mass., on June' 26 in his 37th year, after a short illness. He was graduated from Harvard in the class of 1934

The Alumni Magazine Report on subscribers by classes for 1947-1948 covers 69 classes. Five classes have a 100% record on graduates receiving the MAGAZINE, and three classes have a 100% record on non-graduates receiving the MAGAZINE. The class of '89 is listed in each of these categories. As regards the number of. subscribers of each class in comparison with its quota, the Report gives our class 209% the highest percentage of quota of all 69 classes.

Our class, when members have passed on,, has been especially favored in retaining a connecting link with their families or relatives. Since Jabe Ellis, the outstanding athlete of our class, left us, Mrs. Ellis has kept the '89, class spirit much alive in her family. She subscribes to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and puts, aside for her two-year old granddaughter to read when she grows up all copies of the MAGAZINE in which anything is published about her grandfather "Ben," to her, "Jabe" for all Dartmouth men of his time.

"E.B." Davis, accompanied by Mrs. Davis, spent the summer in Rockland, Maine, recuperating from his cataract operation late in June. Mrs. Davis reports that the eye operation. was successful and that her husband expects to be able to write again when he is fitted with permanent glasses upon his return to New Brunswick, N. J., in September.

Secretary and Treasurer. 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.