1904

Fifty-three years ago this September a group of Dartmouth men in the making were assembled on the Plains of Hanover (Lay-cockian designation) from our widespread United States. At matriculation, admiration for Dr. Tucker quickened into lifelong respect and love. We won the football rush, were abused by Neal the child orator of '03, admonished by Chuck Emerson. Many other things came our way in the welding processes of the undergraduate years, and now we enter the fiftieth (so-called) year as alumni, as those four years are overlooked in the official reckoning. Perhaps there is reason for considering it our 54th year of progress in the Dartmouth family. Our undergraduate years contained no wars they were periods of learning to live with our neighbors in peace and cooperation.

Here's to all our class family in this golden year, and a pause for respect and remembrance for those no longer with us.

By the time you are reading this, a new and up-to-date directory will be on its way to you, yours for the using, to boost the interest of attendance at the commencement in June '54. Help your committees to alert all the families having interests in our class to join this greatcircle of greeting and reminiscence, in the Dartmouth Fellowship.

Rob and Ike had a morning reunion on August 30 at the Robinson home in South Dartmouth; Ned and Sid are to visit Hanover the weekend of September 10-12, and we hope to join them.

Beck is collecting exhibits for our picture gallery and already boasts the receipt last June of a group of blueprints "all of which I took in the fall of 1900," from Sam Wing.Squid's recent campaign for The Fund is a great power in unifying class spirit for the College to which we owe so much. On July 15 Roscoe Smith wrote from Bellingham, Wash., "I got a letter from Tom Streeter in which he says he is already making plans for the reunion next year, 1954. That will be quite an occasion."

Oh yes, Sam Wing says, "The picture of Dartmouth Hall is of the old original building. I think the view across the campus may be the most interesting, showing as it does four buildings that have been gone for many years."

Charlie and Anna Tubbs were at the campus reunion in June. Tubbs' comment: "It was good to see the fellows and their wives, children and even grandchildren (as in George Scales' case), and I trust that next year at the 50th we will have a big percentage of the Class present."

This from Squid's letter of July 8: "Just a line to tell you that six of us represented the Class at Gil Moulton's services in the Old Congregational Church in York Village on July 1, namely Gene and Kate Sewell, Ferdand Mrs. Edgerly, Jack Sanderson, BrighamYoung, Johnny Mathes and myself. The services were very impressive and we all realized what a fine classmate we have lost. The class flowers that Kate Sewell ordered were very lovely red roses."

Sally Johnson wrote many Dartmouth '04 wives, sending greetings from the wives in attendance in Hanover. Here are some of the replies: Marie Logan wrote:

"Your card from Hanover was a very happy surprise. I felt very grand to receive greetings from the 1904 ladies. Thank you for thinking of me. We came to Friendship, Maine, the eighteenth of June. Don's sister Alice will come next week and then our family will be complete. Young Chippy saved all his money he earned during the winter to pay for a rowboat we ordered before we left last fall. He kept it in a strong-box and I wish I might have had a picture of the boat-builder's face when Chippy poured out all the pennies, nickels, dimes and other money. Elbert and Connie enjoy sailing and the slightest puff of wind sends them out in the catboat. I watch all this activity from my corner of the porch. I hope that you and Beck had the good fortune to hear President Eisenhower at Dartmouth. We fairly idolize him I never would have believed that a change of occupancy at the White House could achieve such a feeling of all-rightness."

From Harriet Muchemore: "You cannot know how deeply your card of greeting from the ladies of 1904 touched me. They were sweet to think of me. Harrie and I would not have been with you this year, but we planned to be present at his fiftieth class reunion. Harrie loved our home in Florida and I plan to stay here as long as I am able to take care of it. I hope some of his classmates will stop by to see me whenever they are in Florida. DeBary is ten miles south of DeLand on Route 17."

Joeen Dailey's son Jack finishes his last medical year in '54. Her plans are in the making: "Dear Sally Johnson You are a Dear! To think of me on your trip to Hanover and right here and now let me thank you for the 'Big Lift' it gave me. Jack told me '04 has their big reunion next year. I shall start planning to be there."

Following is news from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare: "Mr. LouisH. Leverone of 18 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, has been appointed to serve on the National Advisory Heart Council. Mr. Leverone, a nationally known business man and a leading figure in the development of business aviation, is the author of various articles on vocational training. He is President of the Nationwide Food Service, Inc. As a member of the National Advisory Heart Council, he will advise and make recommendations to the Surgeon General on programs of the National Heart Institute, established by Congress through the National Heart Act in 1948. This is one of the seven National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md., main research arm of the Public Health Service. A fifteen-member group composed of outstanding leaders in medicine, science, education, and public affairs, the Council was also established by the National Heart Act as official advisory body for the National Heart Institute. The Council reviews requests from non-federal institutions and individuals for research and teaching grants in the field of diseases of the heart and circulation. The group is the recommending authority for these grants which are awarded, from funds as appropriated by Congress, by the Surgeon General after they have been recommended by the Council for approval:"

Since schoolboy days in York, Maine, the durable and devoted friendship of GeneSewell and Gil Moultoh we believe is the finest example of constant, understanding comradeship in our class membership. Gil's passing June 29 removed one of New England's great Yankees from today's ranks. This tribute from the York Weekly: "The death of Gilman L. Moulton has brought sadness not only to his immediate family but to his hundreds of York friends, to others scattered all over New England and in far parts of our country. As a town official and in his other business affiliations, which have brought to him friends from all over the world, his death creates a void. His place may be filled, but not the pattern, for men of his type are rare; it is rare to find one who was so generally beloved who possessed those courtly qualities which so endeared him to his friends; one who has done so much for his town, his church, the community in general. Ill for only a month he literally died in the harness, and York is richer for his long and useful life."

Secretary, Canaan, N. H. Treasurer, THOMAS W. STREETER Bequest Chairman,