1905

John and Marion Tuck have been spending the winter in Florida. John writes that they find Winter Haven better suited to their desires than any other place in Florida, with the Bok Tower and Cypress Gardens near by and both the east and west coasts about fifty miles away; while 100 lakes are reputed to lie within a ten-mile radius.

The Tucks had the pleasure of a visit from Fred Chase in the fall. They took him to the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield, a new experience for Fred, which he apparently enjoyed. He was surprised at the size of this fair.

"All quiet on the Western Front too quiet in business and real estate," is the word from Max Cook from Lajolla, Calif.

Jim Stone retired last August on his 71st birthday. He had served for 36 years as an engineer with the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads. What changes you have lived through, Jim, in the political atmosphere in Washington through these years! The Stones' daughter, Mary Lou, is now 3 years old, the youngest, I believe, of the second generation in our Class.

While not too husky this winter, Ray Root writes that he still attends his patients daily. Charlie and Jessie Brooks, both in excellent health, had recently paid him a call. During the past fall Ray and Molly drove down and called on Ned Estes.

On a morning when the thermometer registered 8° below zero, John Brockway wrote that Mary and he were well and were looking forward to the coming of spring, when they could shake off the inactivity of winter "in a cloud of dust - chickens, garden and what have you.". Their address is now R.F.D. #3, Montpelier, Vt.

Harry Smith had expected to drive East last summer with his wife and daughter Josephine. The latter was to have sailed for Europe, but, unfortunately was prevented by an illness that confined her for three months.

Chet Lawrence has retired from his position with the Savings Bank in Woodstock, Vt. He and Jane were given a pleasant surprise party at a dinner at the home of the bank manager. Present was every employee of the bank with respective husbands or wives. At the time of writing, February 5, they had received, to add to their enjoyment, round-trip air tickets to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where their son has just been transferred from Brazil. They were to arrive on February 27, just in time for the Carnival celebrating Haiti's 150 years of freedom.

Port-au-Prince was also the destination of Walt and Ethel Conley. A card mailed from that city stated that they were to spend nine days there, then on to Panama City for three days, thence home on March is. Their boat was the S.S. Ancon, Panama Line.

Likewise we received a card from SliverHatch, mailed in Cristobal, Canal Zone. He and Alva were "having grand trip - weather perfect —nice crowd aboard (the Chiriqui, of the Great White Fleet of the United Fruit Co.)."

Thanks to Elsie Grover, I have received a clipping from the Boston Sunday Herald of February 14 which contains a letter written by Royal Parkinson. This is on the subject of meeting the unemployment situation in Massachusetts and in particular about the effect of the state unemployment tax. According to Elsie, Royal has been for some time regarded as the top authority on Massachusetts unemployment compensation.

Frances Brown, Rogers wife, was in the hospital, making a very good recovery from a serious operation, at last account. Our best wishes for a speedy recovery, Frances!

Henry Hobart died February 12 at the Park East Hospital in New York. His health had not been good for., some time. He will be missed in our New York circle.

Who's Who in '05

DR. FRANCIS J. McCABE

Lite in Massachusetts and Rhode Island for Dr. McCabe, noted eye, ear, nose and throat surgeon, has been an example of years of restless hard work resulting in success and wide recognition.

Son of a shoe worker, he was born in Pepperell, Mass., and entered Dartmouth from Boston College Preparatory School. After graduating from Dartmouth and spending two years at Dartmouth Medical School, he graduated in 1908 from Harvard Medical School. Frank worked hard and persistently for his education.

After five years of general practice of medicine, including three years as house officer at the Newton (Mass.) Hospital and Carney Hospital of Boston, and four in North Easton, Mass., he decided to specialize. Thereupon he devoted twenty months to interneship in the eye department at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also had a term of service in the ear department of its outpatient clinic.

He located in Providence in 1916 in an office so near Brown University that he could see the Brown-Dartmouth games. Mac was soon visiting otologist and ophthalmologist (in English, ear and eye specialist) for St. Joseph's Hospital, and ophthalmologist at the Rhode Island Hospital.

During World War I he was the oculist and aurist for the First Providence Advisory Board for Selective Service. In due course he became surgeon for St. Joseph's Hospital's eye and ear department, assistant aural surgeon at Carney Hospital in Boston, and finally chief of the eye, ear, nose and throat staff at St. Joseph's. During this career, Dr. McCabe was repeatedly called upon by various medical societies to present papers on his specialty.

Frank was a tireless worker, but in 1939, while watching a ball game in Hanover, he suffered a heart attack which compelled him to slow down. Although he has now given up surgery, he continues his office practice with little thought of retiring.

Our "Chesty," as a man as well as a surgeon, has had a life of distinction. After playing on the class football team freshman and sophomore years, he switched to the varsity baseball squad and by dint of hard work became catcher on the Dartmouth Varsity of three years. Behind the bat he was an incessant and fast talker; many an opposing batter he kidded into striking out. Combining his highspeed conversation, a sense of humor not acquired in Sweden, his friendliness, his exemplary character, his optimism and his persistent hard work, Frank was a credit to his college class.

Not until six years after graduating from Dartmouth did Dr. McCabe marry. He chose a capable home-town girl, Elizabeth Tardy of Randolph, who was as loyal to Dartmouth as Frank and shared in most of the class reunions until, on Christmas eve in 1948, we lost her.

Together the McCabes brought up five promising young folk. Francis J. Jr. was killed in 1929 in a shooting accident. Marjorie (graduate of Pembroke College) and Betty are now Mrs. Louis Wust of Falls Church, Va., and Mrs. Thomas Walsh of Washington, D. C, respectively. Their brothers James and John also are married. James has been recalled to active duty as a lieutenant in the Air Force and is stationed in Belleville, Ill., as a "radar controller." John has his own business, an employment agency. Dr. McCabe has five grandchildren.

Modest as he is about ranking himself as an "average" person, we who know him count him above average in his profession, as a family man, and as an active son of Dartmouth.

DR. FRANK McCABE '05

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