1889

Our annual rendezvous in Hanover this year for the weekend of Commencement will begin Friday, June 12. Ample accommodations at the Hanover Inn have been reserved. At least three of our graduate members and an equal number from our Class Family Group are expected to be present. All members are cordially invited to come. For further information, write your secretary.

The Alumni Fund campaign, now on, will close the end of June. Members of our Class Family Group who wish to contribute in memory of a deceased member, and have not already done so, should promptly mail their contribution direct to Dartmouth College Alumni Fund, Hanover, N. H., and state in whose name and by whom the memorial contribution is made.

To encourage and stimulate gifts to Dartmouth through bequests and other estate planning, the men appointed Bequest Chairmen of classes that graduated 25 or more years ago are engaged in a most important task which can be of great value. The Program holds out the present greatest promise for the future for raising necessary endowment to meet growing financial needs of the College. Beneficiaries of estates of deceased graduates will find in this Program an opportunity for making bequests to the College in memory of their benefactor that deserves careful examination. A pamphlet entitled "Philanthropic Estate Planning," available to any one sending for it, has been issued by the Committee on Bequests in Hanover, which contains valuable information and explains how bequests may be made to Dartmouth, a substantial part of which otherwise in the settlement of their estates might be taken by the government in taxes

Harry Frost reports from his winter home in St. Petersburg, Fla., that the winter there has been on the cool side with considerable rain. He and Mabel have been well and spent the eighth anniversary of their marriage at Coronado Beach Hotel in Clearwater, Fla., where they enjoyed a restful week. They plan to return North early in May.

George Bard, now living in Birmingham, Ala., with his son Robert Bard '19, wants very much to join in the rendezvous in Hanover in June. His great difficulty is how to get there. He writes that he sleeps as well and eats with as much relish as ever, but he is having con- siderable inconvenience in locomotion, a trouble advancing age is bringing to many of us. His son's business takes him to many parts of the country and he is hoping his son will be called North about June, in which case his son's reliable old Buick would be put to use in bringing them both direct to Hanover.

Ralph Doane observed his 86th birthday on March 23. He has spent the greater part of his life on Cape Cod where he lives in his old ancestral home in picturesque Harwichport in which he was born. He writes that the winter produced only two light snowstorms, the snow scarcely covering the ground in each. Miss Sylvia Doane, his daughter and only child, has held a responsible business position in Boston for many years. She keeps in close touch with her father, however, and visits him frequently.

Just as these notes were ready for mailing to Hanover there came from Harry Frost the sad news of the death of William P. Kelly '86 in St. Petersburg. He was struck by a truck while crossing a street the evening on March 25 and taken to a hospital where he died two days later. His funeral was attended by a large group of Dartmouth and church friends. On March 20 the West Coast Dartmouth Club of Florida held its annual dinner at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club. A few days earlier "Bill" Kelly got together to have a group picture taken for the Alumni Magazene Dartmouth men who have been spending their winters in St. Petersburg for many years. They were, besides himself, Matthews '84, Austin '85, Gage '87 and Frost '89. The day of holding the annual dinner, at which the above "old grads" were present, the group picture was published in the St. Petersburg Times.

Secretary and Treasurer 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass. Class Agent, 29 Ocean View Rd., Cape Elizabeth, Me.