1905
Edna, Bob Falconer's wife, writes that the mild weather and beautiful blooms of their camellias combined to induce them to stay in Tryon, N. C., and forego their expected stay in Florida. Their summer plans include a long trip to Alaska and the Northwest.
A hasty note from Henry Norton was written just half an hour, he states, before he was to start for California. He does not say how long he was to stay in that land of promise.
Speaking of California, your scribe's wife Mildred is just back from a visit with her children and grandchildren there.
Frank McCabe also writes of being on the point of leaving for a ten-day vacation, but he does not state whither away.
California has an especial inducement for John Ashworth, for he has a brother out there, but he has no definite plans for a visit as yet.
Newport, R. 1., is the spot chosen by JohnBell and his wife for a winter visit. Their daughter Harriett's husband Commander H. S. Cofield is stationed there as Executive Officer of the School of Naval Justice.
Carl F. Jr., our Carl Getchell's son, is employed by the Hearst Syndicate in charge of a publication known as Motor Boating. He flew the Pacific as a Navy pilot in World War II.
Howard Billman writes that his twins are now, at 15½ years of age, in the sophomore class in high school and doing well. Living in the shadow of the lofty Sierras, in Orosi, Calif., his wife and children are great hikers. "Varsity" himself finds mountain climbing a bit too strenuous.
Having retired from the Board of Ministerial Relief last summer, Percy Ladd and his wife now live in Burlington, Vt.. among friends of their last parish.
Perc Noel keeps very busy with his writing, chiefly for the Information Service of the U.S.A. and for the Citizens' Committee of the United Nations. He regards as his most important work his engagement as Far East commentator for the Voice.
Verney Russell was very busy at last account superintending the construction of a new Methodist church which was to be the most modern building of its kind in the Northwest. He also was working on a dining hall to accommodate 400 girls of the Campfire groups. This will stand at a beautiful spot on Lake Wenatchee.
Like many of us, Lyon Weyburn has reached the age where his great interest is in his grandchildren. He has five and hopes for more. May their shadows never grow less!
Ned Estes enjoyed a trip with a friend to French Canada last fall. They quite fell in love with Quebec, with its quaint, old-world flavor. In Montreal they stayed with old friends from Istanbul who are now teaching in McGill University.
Having mentioned California so many times, I should get in a word for Florida. So let me hasten to report that Herford Elliott was about to leave the land of icy cold and snow for the balmy airs of Delray.
Word has reached me, as I prepare these notes, that Bourne Wood died at St. Luke's Hospital, Middleboro, on January 26. Bourne had been in poor health for some time. Our deep sympathy goes to his brothers in their sad loss.
A late word from C. C. Hills. Good news for the men of '05, their wives, children, grandchildren, at al. Hanover Inn will be our headquarters once again for our next reunion the coming summer. The date: July 10, 11 and 12. Make your plans accordingly.
Late Flash —Ed Gilbert is now a great grandfather, the first of record of our class. Frederick Henry Daven, born January 23, is the grandson of Ed and Effie's second daughter Bertha.
Who's Who in '05CARROLL A. CAMPBELL
Son of a Dartmouth educator (Class of '77) and therefore somewhat accustomed to migration, Carroll Campbell reached Dartmouth from his birthplace in Ashburnham, Mass., by way of Johnson, Vt., and Plymouth, Mass., high school. He had to leave at the end of junior year for Windsor, Conn., where his father was establishing a girls' school, and needed assistance, finances being at a low ebb. This required foregoing his plan to take engineering at Thayer School.
However, in those three years Camp left a record in Dartmouth track meets. He held the College record for the two-mile race, was a member of the varsity relay team, and made his letter, also, in the one-mile event. Camp was essentially an outdoor man with restless energy, tall and thin, toughened to hardship, fond of fishing and hunting. Not a man of books, he was, nevertheless, endowed with two kinds of sense - common sense and a sense of humor - and had an unrelenting persistence. Moreover, he had a capacity for making friends.
Unrepressed by having to leave Dartmouth in order to live at home in Connecticut, Camp entered Trinity College for his senior year and graduated in '05 with his BS degree in civil engineering.
Beginning as rodman, and then as chief of party, for a West Hartford civil engineer who was also town engineer, and as such had considerable highway work, Camp gained four years and a half of valuable experience.
Then he joined the Connecticut State High- way Department as division engineer. This lasted for seven years, until he was appointed Director of Public Works for the City of Mid- dletown, Conn. Not attaining great wealth in four years of this, Mr. Campbell interrupted his engineering for eight years.
He became superintendent of a grain mill and warehouse, but eventually decided that a "rolling stone also gathers no moss."
Then followed three years with a general contractor as superintendent and engineer, his old profession.
Returning to the State Highway Department in 1932 as Construction Examiner for maintenance, he has just completed more than 29 years of state service, during which time an extensive system of modern highways was built and maintained, largely under his attention.
This was no desk job. Camp has roamed the length and breadth of his state. He knows every road and its condition, in that extensive network, and the amount of traffic it must serve. He has an eagle eye for road and drainage defects. He retired from active duty July 1, 1952, and was tendered a surprise testimonial dinner and many gifts of value.
The Campbells own a two-family house, but spend their summers in their delightful cottage on a nearby lake, where Carroll, self-reliant and resourceful, needs no union card to accomplish repairs and improvements from cellar to attic. Now that he has retired, Mrs. Campbell has saved up three years' work for him to do around the house. When that is done he hopes to do a little fishing, hunting and travelling. Occasionally he has been able to get into the woods for hunting trips, but his fishing has been of the piazza type.
Campbell has won enough distinction in three fields to be recorded in another Who'sWho than this one. Professionally he is a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, and of the Highway Officials of the North Atlantic States Association. Moreover, he is a licensed professional engineer and land-surveyor.
His civic career includes a year as Alderman of his city (Middletown) and membership on the Finance Committee of his church and chairman of its House and Grounds Committee.
In order to learn public speaking for use in his long career in public work, Camp chose the hard way and took up with Masonic lodge work. He rose to prominence there, too, having trained his memory to a higher degree of perfection than his classmates had observed at Dartmouth. For he is a past "High Priest" of his chapter in that fraternity, past "Thrice Illustrious" of its Council, past "Commander" of its Commandery, past "Grand Commander" of the Grand Commandery, Knights Templar of the State of Connecticut, a 32nd degree Mason, a Shriner, and, among the ladies, a past "Patron" of the Eastern Star.
Parallel to Carroll's rise to fame, the Campbells have acquired two daughters and two grandchildren, and two nephews graduated at Dartmouth - Charles and Donald Holsworth, '43 and '46. But in this there was tragedy, too. Carroll married Vivian Gladwin in 1905 only to lose her five years later by death. Their daughter Ailsa, a graduate of Connecticut University, with an M.A. from Columbia and an expert archer, died of polio in the Christmas season of 1948. Her children, William and Pamela Knetge, are now back East from California, where they then lived.
In 1924 Carroll and Clara Kelsey, who also held high office in the Eastern Star Order, were married. Their daughter Jean graduated from Skidmore in physical education, was president of the riding association and captain of the swimming team there, taught a year at Russell Sage College, and then taught riding, swimming and lacrosse and studied for an M.A. at Smith College. She is now an instructor of physical education at Russell Sage College in Troy, N. Y.
The Campbells are familiar and enjoyable figures at our class reunions. It is plain that they account for two generations of successful out-of-door folks.
CARROLL A. CAMPBELL '05 with Mrs. Campbell.
1900 1901 1902 1903 EIGHT-CLASS DINNER Friday, May 1 6:30 P.M. at Schrafft's 16 West Street Boston 1904 1905 1906 1907
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