1883

With only two other graduates o£ my class still surviving, besides myself, I have very little basis for class notes and I have recently reported on the conditions touching all survivors, since which I have learned of no substantial changes affecting them.

Accordingly, whatever may appear in my column hereafter may appear somewhat extraneous yet be appreciatively recognized by me and perhaps be somewhat interesting.

Samuel W. Robertson, who was my roommate while in college, chose teaching for his life work and after graduating taught at Rochester and Gilmanton, N. H., and later at Santa Barbara, Calif. He was greatly disappointed that his son was unable to gain entrance to Dartmouth and Sam moved his family to California, taking up his residence at Santa Barbara. He gave his son my name. He entered Stanford University and graduated with honor. The law was his choice of a profession for life work, in which he has met with success. He was elected a member of the House of Representatives in the California Legislature, winning the position by a vote of two to one against his opponent.

I am constrained here to pay just tribute to Mrs. Eleanor N. White, the widow of George B. White, 'B3, non-grad., for her fine spirit and gracious action and for whom the College must owe a deep debt of gratitude for her generous contributions to the Alumni Fund as a memorial in honor of her deceased husband.

A dark shadow is impending upon me at this time in the serious illness of Mrs. Watson for whom there appears little hope of recovery.

During 83 years she has suffered greatly yet she has borne it all with Christian fortitude, resignation and complacency.

Secretary and Treasurer, Hartford, Vt.