1905
We were very deeply shocked to learn of the tragic death of Jim Donnelly. While starting for a well-earned vacation, he was driving to Florida with his wife Mary and daughter Rosemary. In a downpour of rain at 11 A.M., he was in a head-on collision with a truck. He and Rosemary were killed instantly and Mary was very seriously injured. Jim had always been one of our very most active, devoted and loyal members. Always genial and friendly, he will be very greatly missed by a wide circle of friends both in the Dartmouth group and outside it. Rosemary, too, had won a warm place in our hearts. Our deepest sympathy goes to the bereaved family.
By one of those unhappy coincidences, only a few days previously, March 20, Skinny Boyce was killed when the car in which he had been riding failed to negotiate a curve in the vicinity of Portland, Ore.
John Laing was one of the pall bearers at Henry's funeral which was held at St. Charles Catholic Church near Portland. Fuller accounts of these men will appear under In Memoriam.
Sliver Hatch has been on a trip to Alabama and Florida. Your scribe has no further details.
Word has reached me through Tub Besse that Doc Loder missed our '05-'06 dinner back in December by an hour or so. The heavy snow storm held him up so that he didn't reach the Dartmouth Club until after we had gone!
Carl Preis, president of Eversharp, Inc., announced some time back that his company had acquired the assets and business of the Climax Engine and Pump Co. of Clinton, la. This move, Preis said, was in conformity with the policy of Eversharp to diversify widely.
More bits of news that didn't get into last month's column: Sliver Hatch, Doc Loder and Cornish (also Doc) attended the alumni dinner in Boston, February 26. Cornish, in talking to Royal Parkinson, spoke very highly of the surgical skill of Drs. Loder and Kimpton.Roger and Frances Brown wintered near their son on Anna Maria Island, Tampa Bay, Fla. Roger was reported as swimming himself into a somewhat less streamlined figure; he and Frances were getting a real rest.
Clarence Barton retired this past winter as an inspector for the Division of Industrial Safety of the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries. At the reception in Clare's honor the director of the Division is quoted as saying, "During his 33 years as industrial inspector, he has established a fine record of accomplishment. He has upheld the highest traditions of the oldest division of industrial safety in the country."
Bob and Maude Harding are enjoying a motor trip to Pennsylvania to visit their niece as we are preparing these notes.
Back from a "casual cruise" about the Caribbean, Walt and Ethel Conley report a delightful trip. They visited four South American ports and were gone 17 days. Walt reports that the food and service on the Grace Line were excellent and the weather fine. He is now busily catching up on the early spring work on his farm.
Who's Who in '05 WINFIELD BARNEY
A product of many colleges, whom Dartmouth unwittingly converted from a Northerner to a Southerner, Winfield Barney settled in North Carolina and plans to retire even farther South to Florida. For demonstrated versatility in both his teaching profession and civic activities he is one of '05's best examples. Being off the beaten path for most of the class, his classmates seldom see him as much as they would like to.
Son of a business man, sandy-haired, friendly and dignified, a youth of high integrity, Barney came from a peaceful Washington, one free from scandal and corruption. His Washington lies quietly in New Hampshire between Bellows Falls, Vt., and Concord. From there he came, via West Derry and Pinkerton Academy, to Dartmouth. Taking little part in College activities, he became a ØBK scholar, one of 'os's best students and recipient of second prize in mathematics and honors in French.
Following graduation he studied the Romance languages for a year at Harvard Graduate School; then spent a summer studying at the University of Grenoble in France. Next, he returned to his native state for a year where he was principal of Canaan High School. Then he married Minnie Ola Drury of Canaan.
Hobart College at Geneva, N. Y„ occupied him for the next eight years until 1915 in a variety of capacities and in 1911 awarded him an M.A. degree. Here he taught physics first, then Romance languages. At the time of leaving, he was a full Professor of French. On a leave of absence he completed work at Syracuse University for another degree—a Ph.D. Since then he has been Dr. Barney, but without any patients.
While spending two years at Gettysburg (Pa.) College as head o£ the Romance Language department, Dr. Barney taught in summer school there one year and also went to Europe the other. He and his wife were enjoying a visit to Italy, Spain and France when World War I interrupted them.
In 1918 he moved into Ohio University at Athens for a year, as head of the Spanish department.
1919 ended Dr. Barney's migrations, as it would for most men who might find themselves with a position in a girls' college. For the last 33 years he has headed the Department of Romance Languages at the Women's College of the University of North Carolina, which is the second largest women's college in the country. Here his versatility became more and more apparent. He became successively director of graduate work, assistant director of the summer school, and chairman for the Southern States of the Modern Language study. He is both an author and an editor of text books in the field of French. In World War I he taught Military French to Army Officers.
His name is in about all the Who's Who's published in America, including this one, and in the Directory of American Scholars.
Dr. Barney's versatility has not been confined to his teaching. In civic affairs in Greensboro he has served as President of the Civitan Club, President and Founder of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, President of several other modern language associations, and Elder and trustee in his Presbyterian Church where he has. taught a men's Bible class for many years.
As portended by his second prize in mathematics at Dartmouth, Dr. Barney has displayed reasonable talent in multiplication, being the father of five and grandfather of five. Mr. and Mrs. Barney have brought up a most creditable family-Winfield Jr., formerly chief insurance examiner for the State and now treasurer of the local newspaper, graduated at 18 from University of North Carolina; Marshall is the Regional Head of Social Security for the Rocky Mt. region; John, ØBK at University of North Carolina, is district supervisor for a life insurance company's mortgage loan department, now captain in the Air Force; Francis lives at home and works in a drug store; and Mary Elizabeth is married to Benjamin Baker, teaches eighth grade at Alamance near by. Her husband is working for a Master's degree in physical education at the University of North Carolina.
The Barneys have a beautiful home in Greensboro, N. C., where Dr. Barney enjoys raising decorative shrubs. For all his scholarship, he is fond of sports.
For such broad and distinguished attainments in life, not the least of which is the rearing of a fine family, Mrs. Barney too deserves some share of credit.
Dr. Barney, having survived eight colleges, whereas most of his class at Dartmouth were grateful to have survived one, has earned the retirement he looks forward to. The prospect now is that if his classmates want to see him, as all would like to, they must go to Florida. An '05 reunion in Florida could be well attended.
WINFIELD S. BARNEY '05
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