1901

Bill Sykes, who was ill this fall, for the first time in many years, is slowly gaining back his strength. Once again Bill shows he has plenty of class and Dartmouth spirit, for he says he is going to be "tacano" (stingy) for the next year and a half, so that he can be with us in Hanover in 1951.

The present water shortage in New York City reminds Swampy Marsh, who for many years was connected with the New York City Board of Water Supply and for the past six years an associate editor of Water WorksEngineering, of the many plans made years ago to correct this difficulty and the warnings then issued that such a condition might occur in years to come.

On January 31, 1950, the re-election of Ernest Martin Hopkins as President of the century-old National Life Insurance Company at a meeting of the company's directors was announced. This company celebrated its 100th birthday on Tuesday, January 17, 1950 with an Open House in the home office building at Montpelier, Vt. This day, which is quite commonly called "Thrift Day" because it is the anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, is called the company's birthday because on January 17, 1850, the company wrote its first life insurance policy.

We will recall" that throughout our college days Don Page and Paul Burleigh were close friends and companions. Now, through correspondence and tracing family history, we find they are also cousins. Paul's mother was a sister of Sam Page, Don's father, and she and Alvin Burleigh became acquainted while they were both students at Kimball Union Academy. Sam Page and Alvin Burleigh were classmates at Dartmouth and graduated in 1871 and both became lawyers and both practiced in New Hampshire for many years. This accounts for the happy family relationship that has continued through several generations.

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