1894
An urgent message to Benjamin F. Welton on Tahiti Island in the South Pacific via William M. Ames: "Please write an account of your adventures this winter. It will be the feature of an early issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE." Suggestion to Mr. Ames: Let Ben's Charge d'Affaires, Mrs. Welton, aid you.
The class officers announce the resignation of Woodie Parker as Class Agent and the appointment of Paul Jenks as his successor. Also the appointment of Phil Marden as Bequest Chairman. More about these appointments in our next issue.
A bronze plaque has been placed in the Whittlesey Avenue School in Wallingford, Conn., with this simple inscription: JAMES W. McGROTY 1871 1951 PRINCIPAL OF THIS SCHOOL 1906—1938
In answering the secretary's request for the exact wording of this plaque, Dwight Hall writes, "I am very glad Jim can have this small memorial. He did well—very well—when one considers the drawbacks he was compelled to contend with."
Though John M. Poor '97 was a freshman when we were seniors, many of us remember him. His daughter Mrs. Stuart C. Middleton Box 359, Lenox, Mass., is collecting "anything and everything I can of his sayings, doings, etc., as a permanent record." Please help her.
Russell Tewksbury Bartlett was with us only our freshman year. However the worth of his education at Dartmouth was so impressed on him during this short time that partly (at least) with the objective of making it possible for boys to complete their education at Dartmouth which had apparently been impossible for him on account of ill health, he accumulated 1100,000. When he died this was left in trust first to care for his widow and after her death the income to be used for helping boys to attend Dartmouth from the town of Bath where Russell was born and from the town of Haverhill where he had done his life work in the Grafton Probate office first as Register and then as Judge. The money is now available. One interesting condition is that no boy shall be aided who smokes cigarettes, "and so firmly am I opposed to the use of cigarettes that I impose the restriction that the proven use of one cigarette by a beneficiary under this fund shall deprive him of all further assistance therefrom." Russell had no objection to a cigar or a pipe, but a cigarette seems to have been entirely outside the law! The trustee of this fund (now standing at approximately $90,000) is the First National Bank of Concord, N. H.
Decker Field, writes: "I have just written a note to Phil and family in which I said that if my differential and integral calculus is not rusty, this will be the 69th Xmas since we met as boys at Hanover. The Good Lord has been mighty good to some of us. What a storehouse of pleasant memories these years have left with us."
Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass. Treasurer, 60 Maple St., Somersworth, N. H. Bequest Chairman, 84 Fairmount St., Lowell, Mass.
