1889

Hardy Ferguson, who lived in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., during the many years he was active in professional life, has, in. his retirement, moved to the State of Maine, where, at 29 Ocean View Road, Cape Elizabeth, he has acquired a new home which is being shared, as was his Dobbs Ferry home, with his daughter Helen (Mrs. Orin Francis Perry Jr.), whose married son, Orin Francis Perry 3rd, a veteran of World War II with a brilliant record, was present at our gathering in Hanover last June. Hardy reports that he and his daughter already are well acclimated to their new location and are very happy living there.

Clarence Moulton, our senior living member, observed his 87th birthday September 29. He fully intended to be with us last June in Hanover, but an attack of lobar pneumonia made it impossible, much to his and our regret. The good doctor attending him said our classmate's life was saved by the penicillin he administered. Notwithstanding the care he received from plenty of good nurses it was a long pull to regain his strength and normal state of health. In a penciled note written during convalescence, in expressing his extreme regret that he could not reune with us this year, Clarence added this bit of encouragement "Still hoping for better luck in '51."

"E. 8." writes that he and Mrs. Davis returned to their New Jersey home the middle of September after being in Hanover, N. H., since the middle of July where, he states, they had "a glorious time." They had the good fortune to have friends in Hanover who took them in their cars on long interesting rides.

Mrs. Nathaniel K. Noyes lives in the house at 17 Brewster St., Plymouth, Mass., which "Nat" built in 1930 when he left his old home in Duxbury, Mass., where he had lived for many years, and took up residence in Plymouth. The past three years she has opened her house to tourists during the summer and to teachers in the local schools during school months. If offered its real value she has decided to sell this property, in which event she plans to build a smaller home on family land in Duxbury near her relatives.

"Jabe" Ellis, in an early home letter at beginning of his freshman year, had this to say about Eastman, the Sioux Indian, Dartmouth's one-time champion long distance runner, over whom "Jabe" later was victorious in the two-mile race:

"In the junior class is a full blooded Sioux Indian born in the wilds of Minnesota. The College is obliged to educate free of cost a limited number of Indians, should they apply. You remember the original purpose of the College was to educate Indians. This Sioux wears white men's clothes, is a peaceable fellow and well liked. He has the unmistakable Indian features, high cheek bones and small beady black eyes, reddish yellow complexion and coarse black hair close cut growing well down on a very retreating forehead."

Another excerpt from same letter reads: "Mrs. Bartlett (wife of College President) invited me to tea at six today. As it now lack 20 minutes, I must go Just returned, 8:15. Had a very pleasant time and a nice supper. Mrs. B wished to be remembered very kindly to you. She had a good deal to say about you and gave me a standing invitation to come there when I feel blue. She told me that when Matthew Arnold came here lecturing he desired very much to see this Indian Eastman. The Sioux was taken up to meet him, and, while Eastman was perfectly gentlemanly and at ease, Matthew Arnold did not know how to meet him and was as bashful and awkward as a school boy."

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