1908

Again, it becomes a sad duty to report thedeath on October 8 of Francis A. (Robbie)Robinson in Des Moines. Robbie was presentat our last Vero Beach reunion. Always cheerful, always helpful in every Dartmouth effort,Robbie will be sorely missed. He had attainedprominence in his chosen field of estate andcity landscape planning.

"The countless leaves upon the trees"Fall earthward one by one."

Our reporters have caught up with ourmodest Paper Internationalist, Rosie Hinman- sometimes called John. He with Jennie recently attended a meeting of the Trustees ofthe Cardigan Mountain School of Canaan,N. H., of which he is a member. Big things areplanned there, including a million-dollar campus. John was surprised with a birthday cakepresented by the student waiters. It must havebeen his birthday. John also sends us a copy ofa letter from Ev Marsh, now located at Clearwater, Fla., in which Ev mentions a presenthandicap, temporarily having lost his voice.But he's wrestling with it and will doubtlesssoon have it back and be cheering as strongas ever. Percy Gleason is passing out the cigars-now don't get excited. Their daughterAnne, of Greenwich Village, New York, haspresented Percy and Mabel with their firstgrandchild, a girl. Percy says he's not boastingin view of the other 'OB accomplishments inthis line, but he is very happy about it, nevertheless, and who can blame him?

The Night Before the Harvard Game remember? Well, sir, on that night of October 23 at the University Club in Boston, there gathered a small but select crowd of Awt-aters in celebration of the event. Cocktails and dinner were taken in and much talk and song given off. More than a hundred from other classes were also there. We sat next table to '07 - gettin' to look purty old.

President Stearns came over from New York to supply the proper dignity and he did. Those of us who had a grand evening were Stearns, Soule, Hull, Knox, Everett, Keith,Jordan, Rotch, Lowe, Gleason, McCarty and Squier. The game left a couple of touchdowns to be desired. To this old plunging fullback it seemed that the Dartmouth offensive was offensive, but the Yale game on the following Saturday made up for everything.

A confab with Gene Jordan developed the fact that he has owned and operated for years the Oliver White Co. of Medford. It's an oldtime concern whose principal product has to do with specially designed steel fabrications for use by large concerns in making their products. Gene says that he would be considered a mechanical engineer, without benefit of tasseled mortarboard. Listening between the words, I got the idea that Gene has been doing right well. Anyway, he recently built a winterized summer camp on Lake Winnipesaukee on the quiet side, he says, where Dr. Kinsey found no statistics whatever. Every month or so Harry Rogers of Suncook, N. H., is elected to some new office. Now he comes up as vice president of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. They call it the SPNHF for short. You say it.

Got a few new addresses for your little green book. Follow me. Warren Currier, winterizing at Pine Valley, Calif.; Sydney Ruggles, R.D. 4, Danbury, Conn.; Ralph H. Wilson, 320 Church St., Berlin, N. H.

Due to the fact that extra pages will be required in this issue for the listing of the donors in the Alumni Fund drive, it has been suggested that I hold my chatter to a reasonable minimum, which I shall do. I did have some interesting stories of retirement which I'll hold 'til the next issue. But I shall need more, and also hope to have some words from many who have not yet retired. Many who have done so are apparently so durned busy that they haven't had time to write. But unless someone writes in pretty soon, this column will look about as bare as the Thanksgiving turkey, four or five days after.

There's just space enough to wish for all of us that blessed Christmas which comes with faith and a contented mind.

1908 Fund, Contributors

122 Gifts (Participation Index 91) Total Gifts: $7,416.24 (106% of objective) ARTHUR L. LEWIS, Class Agent

Anonymous Fund #17 Anderson, Arthur T. Andrew, Thomas E. Badger, Erastus B. Baine, George F.1 Barnes, Arthur B. Bartlett, Edward P. Blakely, Joseph W. Blanchard, Gordon Blanpied, David R. Blodgett, Guy C. Cams, Raymond L. Chandler, Albert R. Chedel, Robert W. Chesley, Roland E. Clark, Harold C. Cogswell, Harold B. Comstock, Donald L. Copeland, Fred O. Cowee, Howard W. Crosby, Sumner Currier, Ralph P. Currier, Warren Danforth, Richard S. Darling, E. W.2 Dunn, Theodore I. Emery, Henry S. English, Harold L. English, William F. Evans, Webster B. Everett, John S. Fine, George B. Fiske, Eben W. Frothingham, Donald Y. Furman, Walter F. Gardner, Miles C. Gleason, Percy E. Greeley, Eliphalet A. Greenwood, Lester C. Griffin, Winthrop A. Hale, Warren F. Hammond, J. Albert Harriman, W. Hartwell Hazen, Ralph W. Hill, Roger F. Hilton, Howard H.3 Hinman, John H. Hoar, Crosby A. Hobart, Harold S. Hodgson, Fred H. Hopkins, Arthur S. : Hull, Morton Irish, Stacey B. Jordan, Thomas E. Keith, Roy H. Knight, William D Knox, Benjamin C. Lanphear, Amos C. Lewis, Arthur L. Lincoln, Ernest A. Lowe, George B. Lowe, Porter W. Lynde, William M. McAllister, Thomas S. McCarty, Peter F. McElwain, John H. McKone, Frank E. Mann, Scott W. Marsh, Everett T. Marsh, Raymond E. Marshall, Lee W. Melville, Chester W. Merrill, Richard B. Miller, William A. Morey, Harold A.4 Morrissey, Thomas P. Munkelt, Frederick H. Nichols, Andrew L.5 Norton, James J. O'Shea, Arthur D. Parkinson, Dana Pease, Ralph S. Perkins, Allan M. Prentice, Eugene M.6 Rich, Walter C. . Robinson, Francis A. Rogers, Harry K. Rotch, Arthur B. Ruggles, Sydney L. Rutherford, Seymour S. Safford, Charles N.7 Schilling, Frederick E. Severance, Charles C. Sherburne, Ralph H. Sherburne, Raymond W. Sides, Arthur C. Silleck, William M. Smallman, Edwin W. Snow, Harold H. Soule, Arthur T. Squier, George E. Stearns, Malcolm Stickney, Park W. Stone, Henry L. Storrs, Edward D. Symmes, Laurence M. Tappan, Stanford D. Thompson, John W. Thompson, Philip L. Thompson, Robert F. Thorpe, Burton D. Thwing, Albert W. Treadway, Lauris G. Vaitses, Paul S.8 Vietor, Frederick Walker, Charles H. Weston, Arthur D. Wheeldon, Albert J.9 Wiley, Earl W. Williams, Howard K. Wilson, George F.10 Winkley, Willard C.11 Winslow, Elisha F. Wood, Charles A. Woodward, Leon A. Wooldridge, Reginald Worcester, William W.12 Wyman, Arthur M. MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:1 Mrs. Baine.2 Classmate.3 Mrs. Hilton.4 Mrs. Morey.5 Mrs. Nichols.6 Son, E. Miles Prentice,Jr. '38.7 Mrs. Safford.8 Lauris G. Treadway '08.9 Mrs. Wheeldon.10 Daughter, Miss Margaret C. Wilson.11 Mrs. Winkley.12 Harold S. Hobart '08.

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115 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y. Treasurer, ARTHUR E. BARNES Taftville, Conn. Bequest Chairman,