1901

Ed Hunter has resigned as Chairman of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, after many years' service. As a climax to his career as a public servant of his town and state, he was given a testimonial dinner in Hopkinton, N. H., at which Gov. and Mrs. Sherman Adams were among the 70 guests. At the Commencement exercises at the University of New Hampshire in June he received the annual Charles Holmes Pattee Memorial Medal, an award which "symbolizes rare devotion to the public interest" given by the New Hampshire Alumni Association.

Hastings and Sara Lyon sailed for Europe October 3 and plan to be back about Christmas time.... Last March Claude Butterfield drove to Hanover to address the College Chest, regarding the Children's Foundation, which is one of the projects they aid. $1000 was allocated to be used to aid children on the Navajo Indian Reservation, and there two fine boys are being educated with the hopes of their coming to Dartmouth to finish their training. "Butter" said the snow was deep at that time, and he had to be pulled out of a snow bank after a bad skid, but he felt well repaid with the results, and was very glad to be in Hanover once again.

Bill Sykes reports a very happy Fourth o£ July this year. The President signed the new constitution on the third, and upon its ratification on July 25, Puerto Rico became the associate state o£ the United States. Bill feels they will be masters in their own house, will have complete autonomy, and that they have come a long way in the past 50 years.... Tommie Remsen is completing his term as Zone Director of the Tri-County Chapter of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers, previously he had served as. President of the Chapter in 1948 and 1949.

"Hoppy" was reelected to the Board of Directors of the Brown Company, Berlin, N. H., in April, and also on August 10 as a Director of the Boston & Maine Railroad. From the Dartmouth Club of New York News we note the following item: "Strollers on Fifth Avenue, found Hoppy Hopkins, distinguished President Emeritus of Dartmouth, occupying the display case of a prominent photographer, a niche reserved for the top notch personalities of our times." ... Carland Shirley Owen sailed for Europe on the second trip of the United States on July 21, and came back on the Independence from Cannes, France, arriving here in September, after a most enjoyable summer.

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