1888
In an endeavor to comply with the Alumni Editor's Bulletin, that volume 42 of the MAGAZINE begin with October, notes were sent to our eight members to come across with reports. Those of the faithful who complied were unanimous in their remarks about the hot summer. It is never too hot nor too cold to affect Avery, lost to the Class for many years, but it is to be presumed that he sat on his shady back piazza and enjoyed the drone of his bumblebees, the hum of the hummingbirds and the whiz of the electric fan between his naps.
The last note from Dunlap said he would spend the summer in Florida, "Which, after all, is a pretty good place to be in." The Florida weather reports showed it to be a cooler place many days this summer than Boston or New York.
Pattee, not-being,well, was ordered North by his doctors. He made the trip by automobile in four days, about 1000 miles to St. Mary's, W. Va., where with a nurse and relatives he passed the summer. Even there in the mountains the excessive heat broke the record of 44 years. Pattee will return to his home at Winter Park, Fla. in October.
Dick Ely takes it out on the hot weather and says to exist is about all one can do. He looks forward to the coming football season when he can root for Old Dartmouth to win everything it tackles. We can imagine Dick at each critical moment of the game, giving the oldfashioned "Wah Hoo Wah," and not, as one classmate calls it, "The present day emasculated outcry."
John Lew Clark has had the customary serenity of his soul disturbed by two afflictions —the torrid weather plus a housepainting job. It is good to note that he has survived both. Also our congratulations to him and Mrs. Clark and their son Robert L. Clark 28, recently promoted to Director of an important Government Bureau, details of which are given under the Class of '28 notes in this number.
Keay reports that he has no complaints as to health and considers himself fortunate to be as well as he is. He attends to some business, probably still advises families he has attended for four generations ranging from pediatrics to geriatrics. As Medical Examiner for Strafford County, he is always on duty. He found time to call on John Lew recently.
Wendell Williams and wife spent the past season at Osterville on Cape Cod, but even there he had to endure heat that they had never before experienced on the Cape. Wendell, an '88 ball player, has never lost interest in the sport and is still following the local games. His enjoyment of the summer was aided and abetted by his two nephews, Eliot W. and Eben S. Reynolds, both Dartmouth '39, who with their wives and five children had a cottage nearby, where the children could attend to Wendell's ice-cream needs.
While no word has come recently from Richard Paul, we trust he has summered in the Canadian Rockies, as he has done for many years. If so he must have been the only one of '88 to have no complaints about summer heat.
The Secretary and wife were for a time on Governors Island, N. Y„ with their younger son, but did not escape the torrid spell. In spare time they made interesting trips to Delaware Water Gap, West Pojnt, the former Roosevelt Manor at Hyde Park, N. Y., now a crowded burial shrine. The amazing New York Housing construction, United Nations Permanent Home development and super- parkways everywhere were another world from Medical College days. The continuous passing of the world's greatest ships and their constant supervision by our good wife merited her nickname "The Admiral." It was a unique and instructive vacation.
Secretary, 135 Summer St., Maiden, Mass.
