1889

Your class secretary, beginning his duties for the coming year, expresses appreciation of your continued help.

The American Alumni Council which annually gives the Robert Sibley Award to the college magazine chosen by a board of judges as the most distinguished alumni magazine of the year, conferred this honor upon the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE at its conference held at the College of William and Mary in July last. In this competition the class and club notes of our MAGAZINE weigh heavily. It therefore behooves those of us serving as secretaries to see to it that the class or club we represent maintains its efficient work of the past, and, if possible, does, as Editor Widmayer puts it, "an even better job for Dartmouth and Dartmouth men."

Oliver Sherman Warden, veteran publisher of the Great Falls (Montana) Tribune, our class president and known by all Dartmouth men of his time as "Doc" Warden, is frequently receiving honors from his adopted state of Montana for the leading part he has taken in the progress made by that state since he settled there in August, 1889, while it still was a territory—less than three months before it was admitted to the Union.

Last July a colorful ground-breaking ceremony took place in Montana in starting construction of the Canyon Ferry dam on the Missouri river 18 miles east of Helena, its capital. In an historical pageant portraying a powwow with Montana Indian groups and the army men, staged across the Missouri river from the reviewing stand, a message was signed which was delivered by a United States cavalryman to this pioneer settler in the new state of Montana ordering him to press the switch to set oft the first dynamite blast to clear rock for starting construction of the dam.

Governors of four Missouri basin states, which are affected by the Canyon Ferry, were with Montana's Governor and federal and state officials in the reviewing stand to witness Warden set off the blast which tore up the ground where the right abutment of the $36,000,000 concrete dam will rise.

The selection of the former president of the National Reclamation Association and long-time member of the Montana Water Conservation Board to fire the shot to start work on the dam proper was at the suggestion of reclamation bureau officials.

George Bard spends a large part of his time in Louisville, Ky., in association with his son, who has business connections there. His 84th birthday was fittingly observed in Louisville August 24 at a small celebration attended by friends and business acquaintances, who extended their felicitations around a birthday cake with lighted candles.

Our Rutgers University professor emeritus —"E.B."—writes interestingly from Hanover at the close of a happy summer there just before returning to his New Jersey home. During the summer he had the pleasure of renewing acquaintance with Prof. George E. Diller of Dartmouth, an ex-associate of his at Rutgers; also with Prof. John H. Gerould '9O, professor emeritus of zoology at Dartmouth, and former schoolmate of his and his wife at the Manchester (N. H.) high school, whom he has had the good fortune of seeing in Hanover nearly every recent summer.

It is the sad duty o£ your secretary to announce the death of Walter S. Sullivan on Sept. 6, notice of which was received after these Notes were prepared and sent in. The In Memoriam notice will appear in the November issue.

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