1898

Bucky Chandler and his wife were in Hanover in September. Bucky as Bequest Chairman took part in the third annual meeting of the Dartmouth Bequest and Estate Planning Program. The development of this program is vitally important to the College and it is hoped that every alumnus will

familiarize himself with its aims. Before we had time to adjust ourselves to the vacancy left in our ranks by the passing of Jack Spring the call came to George Nolan. "Doc" ended in September his long and fruitful career. Much of his professional life was spent far from his homeland but that did not prevent him from keeping his Dartmouth contacts fresh and he was present at reunions when it was possible. The Class mourns his loss and extends to his wife, Anna, its heartfelt sympathy and the hope that in the years ahead she will consider herself no less a part of the '98 family circle. A brief account of "Doc's" active life will appear in the In Memoriam section.

In response to a request for information about his trip last summer Pete Adams has forwarded the following interesting account:

The origin of the plan for a trip to England and Norway last May was the desire of two or three of us, who had visited England before to see the country more in detail, and in a more leisurely way, than had been possible earlier In addition such a trip would enable me to fulfill my duty in signing the Charter Book of the Royal Society of London, of which I had been elected a Foreign Member in 1950. The signing of this book is essential for full membership. The procedure is simple but rather impressive because the Charter Book the names of nearly all the men who have made history in England during the past 300 years. The candidate _ signs in the presence of the members of the Society, and then shakes hands with the President across the great mace which was presented to the Society by King Charles II in 1663. It is rather amusing that this somewhat gay old boy should have been the founder and first patron of a learned society. Since his time, with two exceptions, every King or Queen of England has signed as Patron of the Society on a page of this beautiful book. The last to sign is Queen Elizabeth II whose handwriting is as attractive as her own personality.

The five persons who made up our party had formed plans and obtained the more important reservations at least six months before the date of leaving, realizing that a coronation year in England was no time in which to take chances. So we had all agreed in advance to travel by air, to hire a car in England which one of our party would drive, and to visit London before the Coronation, leaving the city well before the arrival of the enormous crowds which would make even walking nearly impossible.

These plans worked out very well. We had excellent flying weather all the way across the Atlantic Ocean and the United States in both directions: and when we left London the youngest member of our party took very kindly to left-hand driving on English roads, and piloted us 2200 miles with no trace of accident. She even mastered the intricacies of the English gear shift, a real triumph for one who had had nO preliminary lessons. As a result of leaving London before Coronation we found throughout the rest of England no crowding of hotels, and could pursue our leisurely course as we had Dlanned.

Our route took us from London into southeast England where we spent three days with old friends in a huge Norman castle which is to be the center of government astronomy in England, replacing under better climatic conditions the famous Greenwich Observatory. We then drove westward through the south of England, averaging only about 100 miles. Naturally we found of especial interest the town of Dartmouth and the beautiful valley of the river Dart which we followed for several miles. At Land's End we turned northeastward and returned to central England in the vicinity of Oxford and Cambridge. Here we with old friends at the colleges of the two great universities. Two of us also returned briefly to London to attend the meeting of the Royal Sowere on familiar ground and spent a few days ciety on June 13. As soon as the group was reunited we drove northward through Lincoln, York, and the County of Northumberland to the Scottish border, where several of our party spent a few days at Edinburgh. We then turned south and arrived at Newcastle in season to deposit our faithful old car, and board the steamship Venus for an overnight trip to Bergen in Norway.

In contrast to the rich, green valleys of England, central Norway consists of high, rounded mountains, snow-covered even in July, with tremendous cliffs dropping vertically into the deep waters of the network of ocean inlets known as fiords. Waterfalls are everywhere. There is but one railroad of any importance, and the few roads which exist have been cut out of the precipitous cliffs with enormous effort and at huge expense.

After a week of travelling around this delightful region in every sort of conveyance, our party took train for Oslo over the railroad mentioned, and a few days later boarded a Scandinavian airplane for Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. This is a city of more than a million people, and has ambitions to be known as the "Paris of the North." It is the center for many interesting side trips, including the traditional castle of Hamlet at Kronberg.

We spent five days in Copenhagen and then picked up our airplane reservations for New York. The weather was excellent, and the plane made the long jump from Scotland to New York without stopping either in Ireland or Newfoundland. We passed over Boston and a bit of New Hampshire on the morning of July 15, just a month late for the '98 Reunion!

Secretary and Treasurer Lakeland Terrace Hotel, Lakeland, Fla. Bequest Chairman,