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Best of luck and wishes for a rapid recovery to Bob Hopkins, who is recuperating from a virus type of pneumonia. He has been quite sick but is now on the road to recovery.
Also, good luck to Elmer Robinson, who is just out of the hospital, "where I left my only gall bladder the one my parents gave me for my birthday present 60 years ago." What is the matter with this gang of young fellows, anyway? They are all having their troubles. Let me even extend sympathies to DuckyDrake, who fell down on the ice three days ago, while trying to make a call. Resultsno call, but a Calles fracture of the left wrist. This is the second time that wrist has been in a cast in seven months. Nobody else sympa-thizes with him so he takes this opportunity to condole with himself.
Somewhat delayed congratulations to Larryand Clara Kingman on becoming grandparents six months ago. Stephen is the son of Donald Kingman. Larry's other son Philip is a student at Norwich University.
While we are in Brockton, congratulations to Bill Roland on the acquisition of a new daughter. William Roland Jr. was married last summer to Miss Patricia Carroll of Hyde Park, a teacher in the Quincy, Mass., schools. They are living with Bill at Brockton. Bill's son Robert is stationed in California where he has just returned from Korea, serving with the Air Corps. Brother Paul is a first year student at Boston College.
I believe that our class has a real peeve at Lathrop's recent article in the MAGAZINE! He did not even mention Walt Humphrey's murals as among Dartmouth's art possessions. All of which reminds me that some time back I had a letter from Walt Humphrey in which he said the following, referring to the Snobird party: "One of the pleasantest and most remarkable things to me is the better understanding of and warmer friendship which has developed in the case of a number of fellows whom I knew but slightly in college days."
A nice letter, though brief, from Palm Beach, Fla., tells us that George Tilton is spending four or five months there for the fifteenth year. His address is 439 Worth Ave., Palm Beach, Fla....Snatch Wilkinson has recently had a minor operation followed by a speedy recovery. We have no details JimGregg has a son and wife, with two grandchildren, stationed at Camp Lejeune, N. C. ...and Elly Buck is currently on a three or four months' trip out of the country Haland Lydia Castle are spending a short time in the south.... Dick Barlowe Jr. is in his second year in the University of Pennsylvania Law School....Everett Barnard has taken on a new line of Australian wool which he says gives him about four jobs to do at ones....JohnWarren, as an assessor in the town of Wrentham, is deep in making the good people of that town unhappy with his taxes.
Kay Larmon is in the south with her daughter and grandchild and Sig is expecting to join her shortly. Sig writes that Alec Tuck has been back in this country and that he saw him early in December just before Alec left for the west coast. He also adds that Alec is returning to Switzerland this month. And that Lay Little is on his way to Manila....
Recent letters advise that Rufe and Walter Sisson entertained the Dartmouth Hockey Team, as well as the Clarkson players, with the coaches, at their home on the evening of the Dartmouth-Clarkson hockey game. Jim Gregg Jr., being one of the Dartmouth team, was among the group and Rufe reports that he played some nice hockey.
In the middle of January a card from WinLoveland brought regrets that he could not attend the Sno-bird party, as he is to be tied down very closely at his work at B.U., and has only the holiday off. Win recently had a semester leave which he spent mostly in Europe.
This writer has been saddened twice in the past month by the death of classmates. First came the news of. the passing of Jim Healy, followed by that of the death of Casper K.Blackburn. It was only last month that we reported Jim Healy's new position with the Department of Labor in Washington. The news of his death came as a severe shock. He passed away January 10 at the Georgetown Hospital, Washington, D. C. He had been active in his work until he entered the hospital a few days earlier, but his condition had not been considered serious and death came unexpectedly.
Casper Blackburn died at the United States Naval Hospital, St. Albans, Queens, N. Y., we believe on the 25th of January. Little has been seen of Casper in Hanover since he left Dartmouth, but he has been a frequent visitor at the alumni gatherings and at the Dartmouth Club in New York, where the writer last saw him several years ago.
To the families of both of these classmates we extend our deep and sincere sympathies, and want them to realize that the loss of these men is not only their loss but ours too.
The class was represented at the funeral of Jim Healy by Jim Heenehan and Arthur Madalena.
A STATE OF MAINE YARN by Bill Barnes 'l4 (right) amuses Adele and Jim Gregg 'l4 in Hanover.
Secretary, 88 Sea Street, North Weymouth 91, Mass.
Treasurer, 165 Marlboro St., Wollaston, Mass.
Class Agent, Passaic Nat'l Bank & Trust Co., Passaic, N. J.
