1897

Frank and Edith Johnson have a temporary address at 1517 Laburnam Ave., Richmond 27, Va. His son Roger D. Johnson lives at the same address. His daughter Mrs. Theodore R. Gilliland's address is Box 20, A.P.O. 845 c/o P.M., New York City. His grandchildren are Roger D. and David L. Johnson, who live with their parents in Richmond, Va., and Nancy H. Johnson, at Wheaton College, Newton, Mass. Frank gives his present activities as settling the estate of Mrs. Johnson's mother. Says that he will be visiting his daughter and her husband in Puerto Rico the latter part of the season. His permanent address is at Boscawen, N. H.

George F. Hilton's present address is 3543 Second Ave. So., Minneapolis 8, Minn. His sister Miss Edna Hilton lives with him. His sons are: Donald C. Hilton, 4541 Grant Road, N.W., Washington, D.C.; Charles E. Hilton, at present with M.S.A. stationed in Paris; his daughters: Mrs. W. H. Niven, 4521 So. 34th St., Arlington, Va.; and Mrs. R. P. Tiffany, 209 Lincoln St., Jamestown, N. Y. His grandson Charles E. Hilton Jr. is at present in Paris, France, with his father; also granddaughter Carol Ann Hilton. He writes that he is retired.

Roy J. Ward lives with his wife Mary at 9 Bellevue St., Worcester, Mass. His son Carlton J. lives at 233 Trinity Ave., Berkeley 8, Calif.; and Dr. Arthur D. lives at 21 Otsego Rd., Worcester, Mass. His grandchildren are: Jacquelyn Ward, 7, and Laurence S. Ward, 4 months, of Berkeley; and Allen D. and Stephen T. Ward, of Worcester. Roy writes he is still active in general practice and chairman of Public Health Committee of Worcester, District Medical Society. He is interested in developing a museum of 19th century medicine. He and Mrs. Ward have traveled across the country eight times and found much of interest in travel and photography. Says they have taken eight different routes by rail and auto.

He says,

"While in Berkeley last August we had the pleasure of visiting the widows of two of our classmates, i.e., Mrs. Selden C. Smith and Mrs.Morris Lull. One of Selden's grandsons, John Selden Hatfield, graduated from Dartmouth last June with a Summa Cum Laude and will continue his studies in the of California in the Department of Clinical Psychology. Our late classmate and his wife have four children and 12 grandchildren. Mrs. Smith was a classmate at St. Johnsbury Academy of four of our '97 men - Ben Marshall,Selden Smith, Arthur o'Malley and myself; and is keenly interested in the rest of the class and is disappointed at the lack of news from the rest of the class. She reads the ALUMNI MAGAZINE carefully.

We also called on Morris Lull's widow. She has a son and daughter. The son has two children, twins, a boy and a girl. The daughter has two children and lives with her mother."

Have a letter from Frank H. Noyes saying.

"Dear Bill: I appreciated the number and quality of the news items about our class in the January DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE. If we divide our after-College days into three periods—the 'start' in our careers, the progress and achievement of 'middle age,' and the final 'home-stretch,' I have found my interest in my classmates greatest in the first and the last - and in the last most of all. It is while we are all (all who are left of us) in this last period that, in thought made wiser by years of experience, we see each other so much more clearly and with such a more penetrating understanding that each stands out more uniquely against his, and our own common, life-background. Sincerely, Frank."

Herman arid. Edna Christophe live at 106 Blodgett St., Manchester, N. H. His son Dr. Kenneth Christophe lives at 750 Great Plain Ave., Needham, Mass. Grandson Junior is at Dartmouth and lives in Needham. His present activity he reports as "the last surviving Homeopathic physician in New Hampshire." Christophe sends a long poem from which I quote briefly:

"Oh! it's fun to grow old when each day does unfold,

Some joy that brings you great pleasure; And you know on the way you have made friends that stay, And friends that you honor and treasure."

Erdix and Lou C. Smith live at 480 Belmont Ave., Springfield, Mass. He writes his present activity is still at the old stand doing a bit. "Was up to Sunapee last summer and down to the Cape several times. Was out to Vancouver salmon fishing three years ago and down to Trinidad two years ago."

Says he was so disgusted when he found out he had missed the reunion. Got his dates mixed. Thought it was the 13th, as he had been looking forward to it for 5 years and then missed it. The fishing calendar for June has no dates in it from the 5th to 13th. (See Walton's Compleat Angler.)

Erdix told me he first hung out his shingle in a little Vermont town, and a movement had just been started to have a telephone installed up the "gore" road, with the telephone company agreeing to install the line if they would all sign. One old neighbor and his wife said, "T' won't be no use to put it in, we would never need a telephone as we wouldn't use it none." But the old man was "down to" the store and heard the folks talking about him holding back the telephone. So he said to his wife, "T' wont be no good to us but t'ain't right to keep the others from having it." So they signed and had the telephone hung on the wall of the "settin" room near the kitchen door. The first night after it was installed, he was "settin" in his stocking feet toasting his shins on the wood stove foot rail and she was "settin" on the other side of the stove in a rocking chair under the hanging lamp knitting a pair of red wristers for the old man, and the bell rang. He looked over to her and in a rising inflection asked, "Don't you think you better go?" She looked at him and asked, "Don't you think we better wait and see what happens?"

We are all saddened by the news of the death of Ina Bolser, wife of our classmate "Boh." Visits to their beautiful home many times of late years have brought home to me the beauties of their garden and their great satisfaction in the growing of things to live among. I have learned to think of them in the quiet beauty sharing their love among the flowers.

As we grow older, we feel the force of quiet beauty that surrounds us much more than in the more active years of early or middle life. I hope we can all come closer to "Bols" with visits and letters as he carries on alone.

HOW TO CATCH THEM: Dr. Erdix Smith '97 teaches some young fellows how to land a good haul of fish "down to the Cape."

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