1888

William Winant Short, age 46, elder son of Wallace Short 'BB, died Dec. 20, 1948 at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York, ending a long fight to recover from heart disease. He was born in Malone, N. Y., fitted for college at Franklin Academy in his home town, and entered Dartmouth with the Class of '24, but after three years transferred to Syracuse University and graduated there in 1925. He was a heating and ventilating engineer, and six years ago established his own business in air conditioning in New York City, which was very successful. His surviving relatives are a brother, Commander Wallace C. Short Jr., U.S.N., and a sister, Margaret Hepburn Rhine, wife of Prof. Raymond Rhine of Springfield College, and a resident of South Hadley, Mass. He was a member of several engineering societies. Funeral services were held at the Congregational Church at Malone.

The men of '88 remembered the Secretary at Christmas with cheerful notes and cards. We cull a few gems of thought from them: Dick Ela admits it is the season of cold and snow, and then somehow gets switched to another subject, saying a big full beard used to be a sign of mature young manhood. Should Dick have in mind any such hirsute method of renewing his own youth, all will beg him to remain "as is." Keay reports that he has "just enough work to keep him busy," then pays a deserving tribute to his niece Esther, who has spent her life with the Keays, and now makes his home bright and livable.

Pattee writes, "I am getting better," then qualifying, "I mean physically." But John LewClark reports that at a get-together at Winter Park, Fla., for the Dartmouth-Princeton game, Pattee helped the smaller contingent from Dartmouth "outyell" the much larger Princeton contingent. From Florida, also, Fred Dunlap and wife report "wonderful weather, excellent fruit, and beautiful flowers, and are glad to miss the snow," and yet only last year Fred longed once more to jump into a snowdrift. Richard Paul sent Season's Greetings, and we hope is building up for another season in the Canadian Rockies. John Lew Clark contributed a cheerful greeting and a card that argues that "A nickel is better than a dollar, because it goes to church more often." Experience is culled, he says, from his days as an active preacher.

Wendell Williams had time to think while nursing a cold. We so heartily agree with this excerpt referring to our socialistic government that its quotation is ventured: "We are rapidly wiping out the so-called Middle Class, which has been the real strength of our people and the source of our growth and wealth. We are no longer permitted to accumulate the means of indulging in honest business risks, but must confine our gambling instincts to government-sponsored and controlled horse and dog races."

Thanks, old friends, for your ideas—they are a genuine contribution.

Secretary, 135 Summer St., Maiden, Mass.

Treasurer and Class Agent, 32 Chaflin St., Milford, Mass.