1900
Your secretary assumes his new duties in a spirit of great humility, and with a sense of inadequacy. Our beloved and mourned L. B. filled this office with a competence which his successor can only hope to approximate after a term of equal length. However, facts presented by the expectancy of life tables would seem to preclude the possibility and prophesy the impossibility.
It is to be borne in mind that our Class records now carry the fourth generationpeople with whom we have a common tie through four years' association with father, grandpa, or great-grandfather, but whom, in many cases, we have never met. Probably few of us realize the amount of work it has been for Walter, Mac and L. B. to set up and maintain their records of these years. The continuance of the secretary's records should be easy, but where your secretary's reputation will make or break will depend to some extent on these class notes. These news items cannot be invented—at least not by the present secretary. He must rely on each of you to furnish facts of interest about yourselves and members of your families.
Clarence Butterfield and his children, Warren and Faith, have the sincere sympathy of all of us who have heard of the tragic death of Mrs. Butterfield on November 1 . Interment was at Weathersfield, Vt.
As our notes for this issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE go to Hanover, we are saddened by the word that comes to us of the death of Lemuel Hodgkins. A memorial will appear in a later issue of this MAGAZINE. The following brief announcement was sent to the members of the Class early in January: "For the fourth time this year, death has taken another of our fellowship. Lemuel G. Hodgkins died on December 26, 1951, at his home in Clearwater Beach, Fla., to which he had gone after his customary summer at Kennebunk Beach, Me. Since he became the victim of a shock about nine years ago, his physical activities were limited, but to the end his mind continued clear and alert. He met his partial disability uncomplainingly and with great gallantry. A most loyal member of 1900, his affection for Dartmouth and the Class never wavered. With Lem and Alice for Christmas were their daughters, Ruth and Virginia, their husbands, and Virginia's two children. Services were held at Clearwater Beach."
Lorraine Jenkins, daughter of Ruth, our Class baby, was married on November 2 to Harry Joseph Hayes Jr.
In celebration of their Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary in October, Herb and Alice Trull were given a reception at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Carter Hoyt, in West Newton, Mass.
There are two marriages in Ned Brown's family to record. Son Bill to Jean Gaudette, on June 29, and granddaughter Ann Marie to Wilfred C. Belise. Ned keeps pretty much to his home, maintaining contact with affairs of the world by much reading and radio.
Reported additions to our third generation list—to Ed Dearborn's son Benton, a daughter Rachael Louise, on June 21. On July 14, to Harry Fairfield's son Donald, a son Paul Leason. On August 2, to Ted Gate's daughter Cynthia Beal, a son Peter Bennett Beal. On September 7 to Cut Tirrell's son Donald, a son Gregor Owen. On September 13 to ArthurKimball's daughter Josephine Buckminster, a daughter Ellen Clarke Kimball Buckminster. On September 13 to Chesley's daughter Barbara Roberts, a son.
It was early in June that President Rankin became the victim of a heart ailment. A second attack, in July, required hospitalization for about six weeks. Since Labor Day he has been at home. It is most gratifying to report that by the end of December he had made fine progress—but as his classmates would know, he frets a bit that his activities are subject to limitations and restriction.
In response to some inquiries that have been made as to members of the 1900 family who are to be in Florida during all or some of this winter, here is the best we can offer: Fletcher (Titusville), Jonakowski (permanent resident, Sarasota), Marshall (Coral Gables), Proctor (Clearwater Beach), Warden (Ormond Beach); last year Bigelow and Cristy were at St. Petersburg, and Prouty at New Port Rickey, and Putnam; Benj. T. Atherton (Miami), Mrs. Buckley (St. Petersburg), Mrs. Clark (West Palm Beach), Miss Hildreth (St. Petersburg), Mrs. Hodgkins (Clearwater Beach), Mrs. F. W. Jenkins (Ormond Beach). If there are others, the Secretary will appreciate having the information sent to him.
Address and other changes to be made in your Class Directory: Dunlap, 14 Centre St., Concord, N. H.; Howard, add comma after "South"; Trull, 177 Shawsheen Road, Andover, Mass. Sampson has a new business address—294 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. Mrs. Buckley, 62 Silver St., Dover, N. H.; Mrs. Dearborn, 39 Gale Ave., Laconia, N. H.; Mrs. H. S. Fairfield, 1741 Kirkby Road, Glendale 8, Calif.; Mrs. Kimball, 265 McKinley Road, Grosse Pointe Farms 30, Mich.; Robert O. Snow Jr. should be Walter E. Snow.
Secretary, Chatsworth Gardens, Larchmont, N. Y. Treasurer, 212 Mill St., Newtonville 60, Mass. Bequest Chairman, 294 Washington St., Boston 8, Mass.
