1898

Fred Bennis wrote from California: "We want to leave here in May and get home in time to open the house in Sullivan and then head for Hanover. I hope all of us 50-year guys will be able to get together for the great event. It's no small privilege to be counted among those present at such a function." That's the spirit, Fred. He was fortunate in that the big fire in Maine just avoided reaching his house.

Dick Marcy is now located at 1461 Main Street, Whalom, Mass., where he is living with his brother. He has disposed of his realties in Sarasota and Rindge, N. H., and describes himself "as or soon will become a purposeless 'old, young man'."

At the Dartmouth Association Alumni dinner in Boston February 4 there was present the largest '98 representation in many years, Joe Bartlett, Buck Chandler, Mush Jones and your secretary. Mush was the same old likeable Mush as we knew him in college and the only sign of age he shows is the use of bifocal lenses. We do not see him often enough. He is coming to the reunion.

Charlie Carr sent in his subscription to the Alumni Fund even before the notices were sent out and accompanied his check with the best wishes for all '98 men.

The Columbus (Ohio) Citizen of January 2, 1948 had a story in its "Around Columbus" column about John Eckstorm: In part it said, "Ohio Penitentiary, overcrowded, 4000 men, young men, kids—one in death row but 17. More men coming in all the time. More than ever young men, nice looking young fellows. Something slipped along the line some place. I examined them. They are clean cut physically, good specimens. My heart aches for them." Dr. John B. C. Eckstorm, the prison's chief physician, told members of the Columbus Co-Operative Club of the tragic arrivals in our city. "I examined a blond kid. Good stock —but he's back of the walls. How old? Twentyone. What are you in for? First degree murder. F.nough to make you keel over. The next one says 'stick up,' maybe 'bank robbery'."

The 73-year-old physician, former Dartmouth football captain, former Ohio State University coach, is so concerned over the situation he wrote an article for the magazine Victorian: "Today when a mother brings her 'bad girl' to my office and with strident voice indicts the girl, accusing her even before my examination, I want to put that mother over my knee and beat her, because in most cases she is without trust in her own girl. She condemns without understanding. And she does this because she has never been a big sister to her daughter."

Editors of Victorian called Dr. Eckstorm's article "one of the finest we ever printed." This week it appeared in the Ohio Penitentiary News. Its title is "My Sixty Years With Boys."

John is still carrying the ball as he did when he was a part of that great backfield of John, Indian, Crolius and Mac. He merits a Wah Hoo Wah from the class and we hope that he is coming to the reunion to tell us more about it.

Secretary and Treasurer, 14 Say ward St., Dorchester, Mass. Class Agent, 86 Main St., Nashua, N. H.

IN '48 IT'S '98 50-YEAR REUNION June 11, 12, 13