1896

Four members of '96 have advised their Class Bequest Chairman, Thomas C. Ham, that a share of their estates will go to the College. The class record to date of gifts and promised bequests stands at about $230,000. The Class Chairman has set the goal for '96 at not less than $250,000.

Your Secretary is happy to present a brief sketch of Major Ann Cummings, daughter of our classmate, Dr. Alvah C. Cummings.

Ann graduated from William and Mary College in 1936. Alvah and Jeanette attended her graduation and the family came to Hanover to our Fortieth Reunion. We remember what an active and attractive girl Ann was.

Ann's first job was teaching physical education in Meadowbrook, a school in western Massachusetts. In 1943 she joined the Womens' Army (W.A.C.) as a private to do her bit for our country. She expected to return to Meadowbrook and was granted leave for two years, but her interest in the Army increased. After taking the Officers' Candidate School course, she was given several assignments in the States. Then she was sent overseas as Director of W.A.C. Athletic Activities throughout occupied Germany. While in Germany she bought an old army jeep and toured many of the countries of Europe and the British Isles. In 1948 she was flown back to the United States. In the winter of 1949 she was in charge of a W.A.C. group sent to Mount Washington to test winter wearing apparel, sleeping in the open, skiing and generally living out of doors. The Boston papers carried several feature articles about this project.

In 1950 she was assigned to Fort Lee, Va., as Company Commander, and in October, 1950, was returned to Fort Leavenworth, Kans., as Company Commander of the W.A.C. organization, and is now carrying on in this capacity. She is always on call, day and night. Like her father she deals out good counsel, but not the pills.

She likes the Army and is doing a fine job. The future will determine how far she will go. '96 salutes one of its talented daughters.

" Jeannette the home in New- ton last April and is now living with Ann. The address is: 632-1 McClellan, Fort Leaven- worth, Kans.

The Family of Arthur Thad Smith

Mrs. Smith rented her home in Winchester, Mass., soon after her husband passed away so suddenly January 1, 1940. She has lived much of the time with her daughter Jeannette, but at present is with her son Thad Jr. in Denver. As this is written she is quite ill.

Arthur Thad Smith Jr., Dartmouth '31, studied law and practiced for some years in Boston. He was in the Navy during the Second World War. Then he went to Denver, completely on his own, not knowing anyone or having any connections. He shortly associated himself with a lawyer. Within a year he was asked to join the legal staff of Continental Oil Company. He is now their General Attorney with several lawyers on his staff.

He is Chairman of a Western Oil Commission. He has organized and teaches a night course in Oil and Gas law at Denver University. The Smiths have two children, a daughter one-and-a-half years old, and a brand new baby boy. He should be Dartmouth about 1970.

Thad's. office address is: Continental Oil Co., Denver a, Colo.

Jeannette graduated from Vassar. She married Edward G. Egan. During the war they lived in Washington. Edward was employed by the War Production Board. For the last six years they have lived at 35 Terrace Ave., Riverside, Conn, (a part of Greenwich). Edward is in the sales division of the American Mineral Spirits Company of New York.

The Egans have two children, a son aged six, due at Dartmouth about 1964, and a daughter aged four.

Your Secretary is certain that our '96 group, and others who knew Thad in college, will be glad to hear about his family, and that his children prosper as would be expected of so brilliant a father. Your Secretary and Thad were classmates in Dover (N.H.) High School as well as at Dartmouth.

DR. ALVAH C. CUMMINGS '96, who died in 1938, and his daughter Major Ann Cummings, WAC, whose Army work is described in the '96 notes.

Secretary and Bequest Chairman 159 Park Ave., Arlington, Mass. Treasurer, 21 Forest Rd., Cape Elizabeth, Me.