1887

The Secretary, from all his information, is able to assure you that all classmates are in good health. Dr. Sanborn (who has been a valued assistant) received a letter from ApostleMorse, from Hoquiam, Washington, and one has been received from the Reverend Winn from Redlands, Calif. Several requests have been made for our "jubilee" book. We hope there will be more. Someday it will be quite a problem what to do with upwards of 200 copies in our custody.

The Secretary has had considerable correspondence with Mrs. Elaine Goodale Eastman, widow of classmate Dr. Charles Eastman. She has prepared a summary of leading events in his distinguished career which will be published in several numbers of the New Bedford.Standard, beginning early this month. The subscription price for the series will be $1.84.

Mrs. Eastman is the author of a book, TheRed Man's Moses, a biography of Richard Henry Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian school. Her address is 187 Elm Street, Northampton, Mass.

I like to get a letter from Morris Morse, our Class Day prophet, whom some of you honored as "Apostle" Morse. After Dartmouth he graduated in Theology and because of high standing in his class he was assigned a fellowship for two years of study in Germany. Then came 20 years as a pastor of churches, a number of years in Teaching until in 1927 he retired and now lives with his daughter at Hoquiam, State of Washington.

In college Morse showed independence and he still holds that characteristic. In a letter of January 9, he says, "I was very little interested in the election, having no liking for either Truman or Dewey. In protest against them I voted for Wallace without accepting all his contentions. I voted for a Republican Congressman, because he is a good man and editor of our local newspaper." (you see he still has independence!)

"By the way," he says, "I have just finished (by hand-tool work) my 40th Peg Board such as I sent to you." (I deposited it in Morse's name at Dartmouth Library with class of '87 mementos.)

Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Howland quietly celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary on February 1. Scarcely any of their friends, even Mr. Howland's colleagues at..the home office of the National Life Insurance Company, realized the significance of the day. Mr. Howland spent part of the day at his desk as usual at the National Life building, but at lunch and evening meals at home Mr. and Mrs. Howland had the company of their four daughters: Louise (Mrs. Edwin Clark of New York); Sylvia (Mrs. Paul Sample of Norwich, Vt.); Emily (Mrs. William C. Mansfield of Cheshire, Conn.); and Miss Susan Howland who is living at home. Also present were one son-inlaw, Edwin Clark of New York and Dr. J. E. Dewey, Mrs. Holland's brother who Has been living with the Howlands since he retired from medical practice.

Mr. Howland, and Mrs. Howland, who was Margaret Louise Dewey, a daughter of Edward and Susan Dewey, were married in Christ Church in Montpelier on February 1, 1899. Mr. Howland, who was then a member of the law firm of Dillingham, Huse and Howland and was also serving as Secretary of State and Insurance Commissioner, said to Margaret Dewey when he proposed marriage to her, "Of course, I'll always be a poor country lawyer." One doesn't need to go on from there. The distinctions that have come to Mr. Howland, including the presidency of the National Life Insurance Company from 1916 to 1937, are well-known. Now in his 84th year, he and Mrs. Howland are enjoying fairly good health.

HOW TO CELEBRATE YOUR 84TH YEAR: On his birthday, Jan. 20, Frank Berry Sanborn '87 accepted a bronze portrait plaque from the employees of the medical apparatus plant which he founded in Cambridge, Mass. He warmly thanked them for making his life a long, active, healthy one, and then celebrated with 14 holes of golf.

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