1889

From the medieval town of Bari in southern Italy, where she had just arrived, has come an interesting letter from Miss Elizabeth Chase, daughter of our late classmate, the Rev. Arthur Chase. The letter brought back to your secretary, as nothing ever before had, the many pleasant memories of his visit to this ancient seaport town, high above the coast overlooking the Adriatic Sea, many years ago, when he, traveling alone as Miss Chase is doing, was on his way to Greece and the Near East. This talented daughter of our classmate in her letter from Bari writes:

"After three weeks of magnificent weather, today it is pouring rain, cold and windy. Of all the days I might have chosen, it is tonight I am to take a boat from here to Piraeus. It was a difficult but, for me, a romantic way to see the old town of Bari today. I walked around on the road that tops the partly leveled walls. The sea sent spray twenty feet into the air and flooded the highway below me. On my left, as I walked, were the grand old Romanesque walls of the Church of San Nicola, built the latter part of the 11th Century. I plodded through sheets of rain - shedding some of it inside the Church; then visited another tiny and older church. At dusk, I wandered around the streets of the old town watching people get home from work, children scuffing the water in the middle of the streets, several of them singing cheerily in the downpour. The only flaw in the picture was that I was completely enveloped in a plastic raincoat and hood, and had on plastic boots, which brought cries of Americana' as I passed. I hardly could have been out without this protection, but it seemed sad to have to advertise myself so noticeably as a 'forestire."

Walking across Boston Common recently your secretary suddenly noticed approaching an attractive young woman - smiling and quickening her step, evidently coming to meet him. The moment she advanced near enough to speak he at once recognized it was Mrs. Robert Taylor (Elizabeth Blakely) just back from England and the Continent, where she and Mr. Taylor had been the past year, during her husband's leave of absence from Phillips Andover Academy. Mrs. Taylor was looking extremely well and happy to be back again in her Andover home.

Your secretary accompanied Frank B. Sanborn '87 to attend the funeral of his classmate Herbert E. Gage in Haverhill, Mass., October 27. Attendance of the deceased at all Dartmouth Commencements in recent years brought him in close touch with '89's group, annually gathered in Hanover at that time. He will be missed at future gatherings.

Class President Hardy S. Ferguson, our youngest living member, observed his 86th birthday on November In our Class Fam- ily Group, Mrs. Jennie D. Henry of Helena, Mont., sister of our late classmate, Dexter D.Dow, observed her 89th birthday on October 29. Mrs. Eliza A. Bliefling of Watertown, Mass., who l-ecently wrote a sketch of Dow's early boyhood, observed her 92nd birthday 011 October 20.

Mrs. Burt Redfield, who spent the summer at her camp in the Passaconaway Valley region, is living this winter in Goffstown, N. H., her home town at time of her marriage to our classmate.

The Harvard-Dartmouth football game at the Harvard Stadium, October 23, witnessed by more than 30,000 people, was exciting and interesting. A sunny sky and crisp, invigorating air made it an ideal autumn day for the game. The surprise of the day was Harvard's resorting to a passing attack early in the game. Its threatening effectiveness, however, was gradually overcome by the superior, overpowering passing of Quarterback Bill Beagle, who successfully passed to his receivers ten out of fifteen attempts, netting two touchdowns and winning for, Dartmouth the game 13 to 7. Your secretary watched the game from a center section of the Stadium on the side reserved for rooters of the visiting team, but not one of the old Dartmouth crowd of his time in college that formerly attended this game was there. Nearly all of them had already seen their last game of football.

Miss Anne Willis is receiving congratulations upon being on the dean's list at Sweet Briar College. She is the sub-deb daughter of Mrs. James Sturgis Willis of Milton, Mass., daughter of our late classmate Harold W.Knight of Charleston, W. Va., who was '89's Class Marshall on Commencement Day. Miss Willis is a graduate of Milton Academy. She went to Holland the summer of 1952 with a group selected and traveling under direction of the Experiment in International Living. In the '52-'53 season, Miss Willis made her debut and was presented at the Debutante Cotillion by her uncle, F. Turner Brown.

1889 Fund Contributors

10 Gifts (Participation Index 167) Total Gifts: $350.00 HARDY S. FERGUSON, Class Agent

Bard, George P. Bartlett, Ralph S. Blair, Henry P.1, 2 Blakely, David N.3 Davis, Edwin B. Dow, Dexter D.4 Ferguson, Hardy S. Frost, Harry M. Noyes, Nathaniel K.5 Redfield, Burt H.6 Wellman, James A.7

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1 Anonymous.

2 Mrs. Nicho'l M. Sandoe.

3 Daughter, Mrs. RobertB. Taylor.

4 Sister, Mrs. Jennie D.Henry.

5 Son, Edwin M. Noyes'15.

6 Mrs. Redfeld.

7 Son-in-law, Robert P.Burroughs '21.

Secretary, Treasurer and Bequest 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.