1889

Under the will of Sara Duryea Hazen, widow of our classmate, Charles Downer Hazen, Dartmouth was bequeathed one-half of her estate (bequest estimated to amount to about $20,000) to establish a permanent fund in memory of her husband, a native of Barnet, Vt„ who, as a professor of Modern European History, served with distinction for many years on the faculties of Smith College and Columbia University. It is contemplated that the fund will be used to establish the Charles Downer Hazen Scholarship to be awarded annually to an outstanding student majoring in Modern History. In addition to his career as a teacher, Professor Hazen was a noted author, so outstanding in his work that he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Hearing from families of deceased classmates is always pleasing. Your secretary has received a communication from the daughter and also from the son of Ned Dearborn, who left us five years ago. Mrs. Helen D. Mills, the daughter, now lives in Littleton, N. H., where she owns and operates the Silhouette Dress Shop. Clinton H. Dearborn, the son, at the time of his father's death, was living in Hampton, Va., in charge of the research division there of the Langley Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. For the past two years he has been, and is now, stationed at its Headquarters Office in Washington, D. C., with home address at 5517 Lambeth Road, Bethesda 14, Md.

Of the 13 leaders of the Communist Party in this country convicted by a federal jury in New York January 21 on charges that they taught and advocated the overthrow of the United States Government by force and violence, one of the defendants is the 60-year old Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, daughter of our late classmate Thomas Flynn Jr. Miss Flynn, who received the degree of A.B. from Hunter College upon graduating there years ago, is one of four American-born defendants, the birth- places of the other defendants being: 5, Russia; 2, Poland; 1, Hungary and 1, a British subject born in Trinidad.

At the insistence of United States Attorney Myles J. Lane '28 that the defendants be refused further freedom on bail, the presiding Judge Edward J. Dimock so ordered, and remanded them to confinement awaiting sentence. On February 3 sentence was imposed. Seven of these Communist leaders, including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, were sentenced to three years in prison a fate they preferred over banishment to Russia. They also were fined $6,000 each. Five other convicted party leaders were sentenced to two years in prison and fined $4,000 each. The other defendant was given one year in prison and a fine of $2,000.

WHEN '88 LAST MET: This picture, taken at '88's 40th reunion, shows three of the four living members of the Class: Wendell Williams (second from left), Forrest Keay and William Lougee. Others are George Hardy (I), Wallace Short (third from right), Arthur Livermore and Fred Pattee.

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