1890
"Another year has passed and for the majority of us it has been alone. Our good men and true have found their new home in the 'land that knows no sorrows.' To them also, I send my salutation. For the past year I have spent my time quietly, attending to such personal matters as business and social pertinent to the occasion. My summer home at Woods Hole, with its ever open door for Victor's friends of Dartmouth days, was indeed a haven for me the five summer months. Swimming, driving and visiting old friends was enjoyed to fullest measure. At present I am enjoying a very good state of health and well being, and always looking forward to the sunny days, and as the evening of life approaches I am mindful of the philosophy of Oscar Leighton so beautifully expressed in the closing of his little book Ninety years on the Isleof Shoals, 'So clinging to the hope that I may yet find the dear ones who have sailed away on their last voyage, I am still looking to windward ever keeping things shipshape below and aloft and my tattered sails trimmed to meet a favoring breeze that may fan my derelict vessel onward to the end.' "
Soon after election last fall I called on Speaker Martin in North Attleboro, and while talking politics there came this news via teletype, "Robert Rolfe of Penacook, N. H. has been appointed manager of the Detroit Tigers." I had never heard of him and lost face with the great Speaker of the House, Joe Martin. The secretary wrote Mrs. Locke of Penacook for information. "If you had been in America," wrote Mabel Locke, "when Robert Rolfe was playing with the Yankees you would have heard plenty about him. He is my nephew's cousin and I have known Bob since he was a small boy and Penacook is very proud of him." Penacook seems to be full of Dartmouth alumni. It should be renamed Wheelock. Mrs. Locke spent last winter at home in Penacook instead of meandering off to Florida where she suffered the rigors of winter in tropical Florida. Mabel Locke is an ardent lover of Dartmouth and a generous contributor to the alumni fund.
While taking over as secretary of '90 I received notice from Chas. Mills of Cleveland, Ohio, announcing the death of his mother, the wife of our classmate Dr. Mills. Later Mrs. Hilton sent me a letter from Dr. Mills' son from which I quote. The date of the letter is April 19, '48. "I have just suffered the loss of my mother who died last Wednesday in Bennington and was buried there Saturday afternoon. She fell out of bed Monday night and fractured a hip. Although everything was done for her at the hospital, she died of an embolism. We were fortunate in having for the services Father's successor and our devoted friend, Stanley Cummings."
The 16th of March last I received a letter from William Cogswell, Dartmouth '28, announcing the death of his mother, the widow of our classmate William Cogswell '90. He enclosed a clipping from the New York Times. "My son, Clay, her grandson, is a member of the class of Dartmouth '52, so all this is quite definitely a Dartmouth matter." William Cogswell '90 was one of the outstanding men of the class and its best orator. Who that heard him declaim Poe's "The Bells" can ever forget it! He walked away with the oratorical prize.
The M.D.'s constituted the cream of the class of '90. Dr. William Morgan has received all the honors it is possible for the medical profession to confer on an M.D. The secretary only knew two of the M.D.s somewhat intimately, Victor Safford, whom to know was to love, and Perry Boynton of New York City, one of the leading physicians of the metropolis and known to every Dartmouth alumnus in that city. At our 50th reunion I met Mrs. Boynton and Carroll Boynton, then one of Dewey's assistants in the Dist. Atty's office, N. Y. C. Through him I later met Dewey and his secretary Lockwood, with whom I still correspond. Later I met Dr. P. S. Boynton Jr. '31, Carroll being Dart. '32. Both of Perry's sons served with distinction in world war 2, and are now practicing their professions in N. Y. C. Gerould informs me that Perry has a summer and week end home in New Town, Conn.
The class is fortunate to have Cliff Humphreys as its class agent. He was unable to be in Hanover last year at the meeting of class agents. This year he hopes to be able to attend. His business interests are extensive and varied, but notwithstanding all that, he considered it his duty to serve as class agent when asked to serve.
Mrs. Henry H. Hilton, Windermere Hotel, Chicago, Ill., sends a copy of the resolutions passed by the Board of Directors of Ginn and Co. on the death of Henry Hoyt Hilton:
In the death of Henry Hoyt Hilton the Directors of Ginn and Co. realize that they have lost one of the great leaders and directors of the affairs of the company, one who was a constant source of encouragement and counsel to all those who represented Ginn and Co. in its varied activities, and one who was a close friend and guide to many in both business and personal relations. Throughout his association with Ginn and Co., which extended over a periocLof 56 years, he played a leading part in expanding the business and securing for it world renown. As editor, as sales manager, and later as president and chairman of the board, he displayed those qualities of leadership and direction that contributed notably to the success of the organization. In view of the profound respect, as well as affection, which we, his associates, had for Mr. Hilton, and in recognition of the high regard in which he was held as a publisher, and educator, and a citizen of the United States, Therefore Be It Resolved that we express to members of his family our profound regret at his passing, and extend to them our deepest sympathy; and Be It Further resolved that a copy of these resolutions be placed in the official minutes of Ginn and Co. and be distributed to his former associates in the company. By Authority of the Board of Directors of Ginn and Co., Frederick A. Rice, President."
A brief biographical account of Henry Hilton's life accompanies the above resolutions and is a part of the same.
1890 CLASS AGENT: Clifton S. Humphreys, shown with his wife, reached his 80th birthday Aug. 29.
Secretary and Treasurer, 3 Dartmouth Place, Boston, Mass.
Class Agent, 160 Main St., Madison, Me.
Mrs. Mary Victor SafEord writes from 15 Grovenor Road, Jamaica Plain, Boston:
