1902
I have often wondered who would be the last surviving member of our class, but I think now I can make a safe bet that it will be Julius Arthur Brown. Born in 1880, he taught at the University of Beirut, Syria, until the retiring age of 65. Then he came back to America and taught until the Colgate age limit of 68, and now he is teaching Physics and Physical Science at Jacksonville Junior College, where there is no retirement age. This college, he says, is a young institution with large ideas for the future and has recently moved to a new campus on the river outside the city, where there is every prospect of expansion to a full-fledged four-year coll ege. May you grow up with it, boy!
Julius has one daughter and four sons (all went to Dartmouth) and his mother just died peacefully last winter at the age of 98. He already has ten grandchildren and more expected. He sends a special invitation to any members of the class going through Jacksonville to stop and visit. He says his name is in the telephone book, his good wife Helen is usually at home, and a local call still only costs five cents. It might well pay to stop rather than to partake of the waters of the "Fountain of Youth" at nearby St. Augustine.
Does anyone want to take my bet?
Had a nice long letter from Ben Riley. Ben is still active in the Riley Engineering Corp. in Detroit, though he is weakening a bit. Ben says: "I used to enjoy snow storms in Hanover but am content from now on to see television pictures of them" and he doesn't, as he did two years ago, pooh-pooh lolling on the beaches of Florida in the winter, but sort of advises Louis Dow and myself to go. Living in Detroit, Ben is disgusted with the strike leaders and administration leaders, as we are here.
Ben and "Pacer" Gay were in business together for four years not long after graduation. And thinking back on college days, Ben recalls the trip he and Ben Ailing took up to Lake Morey to see "Pacer" as he sat out his three months of rustication, when the faculty had decreed that he must be separated from Dartmouth forthwith. It took the combined efforts of Ben, Jack O'Conner and Julius Arthur Brown, plus some help from Palaeopitus, to convince President Tucker that the penalty was too severe for merely insulting a Spanish professor. Then as a quick result Ben and Ailing were shortly after investigated by the faculty as being responsible for the burning down of seven cottages, plus a summer hotel next to the cottage where "Pacer" was sitting out his sentence, the fire occurring during their visit. Suffice it to say, our classm ates were exonerated.
Ben, like most old-time football players, doesn't like the two-platoon system in football and fears the college game is getting too commercial. Personally, it looks like basketball to me.
1902 Fund Contributors
67 Gifts (Participation Index 83). Total gifts: $3,135.50 (113% of objective).
Abbott, Guy H.1 Anguera, Herman de Archibald, Frank S. Archibald, Kenneth2 Barnes, Thomas L. Brackett, Karl S. Bradley, Frederick O. Brown, Julius A. Chi vers, Arthur H. Cilley, Edgar F.3 Clark, Robert B. Clark, Robert C. Corse, Elton L.4 Cregg, Edward F.4 Cristy, Austin P., Jr.2 Cushman, Robert Dalrymple, Albert H. Davis, Carroll W. Dorr, Percy O. Dow, George L. Drake, J. Frank Dudley, Charles H. Edson, P. Paine5 Elderkin, George W. Estabrook, Robert F. Farr, Leslie B. Farwell, Hermon W.
Fitzgerald, A. Harold Fletcher, Edward J. French, Frank P. Gilchrist, Robert H.4 Graham, George S.6 Griggs, Leland Harris, Howard M. Harrison, Charles H. Hartshorn, John E. Hatch, Roy W. Hill, Harry C. Holmes, Joseph E. Hosford, Clarence K. Hubbard, George M.7 Huntington, James L. Irvin, Arba J. Keniston, Davis B. Kennedy, Alfred R. Lambert, Avery E. Larned, Richard M.2 Leach, Robert M. Leahy, Morris J.4 Little, William O. B. Lyons, Dennis F.8 MacKinnon, Harry W. Merrill, Arthur H. Merrill, Roy S.
Moore, Frank C. Munroe, James A. Newman, George W.4 O'Connor, John C.4 Perkins, Moses B. Pillsbury, Henry C. Porter, J. Endicott Pratt, David D.9 Riley, Francis B. Ruggles, Arthur H. Ruggles, Arthur V.4 Sanborn, Harvey B. Sanborn, Hugh M. Schilling, Albert H. Smith, Robert H. Stanley, Arthur P. Stanton, Fred C.4 Stevens, Benjamin S.
Stone, Howard P. Studwell, Chester A. Taylor, Ralph H. Thompson, Philip P. Thompson, William B. Walker, John Watson, Ernest B. Whitcher, Burr R. MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:1 Mrs. Abbott.2 Davis B. Ken is tort '02.3 Mrs. Cilley.4 Carroll W. Davis '02.5 Airs. Edson.6 Airs. Graham.7 Mrs. Hubbard.8 Mrs. Lyons.9 Classmate.
CLASS AGENT ROY W. HATCH 'O2
Secretary, 7 Ship Channel Rd., South Portland, Me.
Treasurer, 426 Tremont Building, Boston 8, Mass.
Class Agent.
