1898

On September 21 Dartmouth College opened its academic year for the one hundred eighty and - well, figure it for yourself, for the College is already making plans for celebrating its 200 th anniversary in 1969. The attendance at this first meeting of the year was somewhat larger than it was in 1894 but, I venture, the emotions of the freshmen present this year were not so different from those of the Class of '98 at the earlier date. But I will say that the average height of today's students is inches more than that of the students of the 19th Century. This seasoned observer has to lookup to them now.

Just at the time of this writing comes the news that Joe Bartletf's wife Sue died September 23 at their home in Waban, Mass. All of us have seen and known our President's wife on many occasions, at class reunions and other meetings throughout the years, when she seemed to be enjoying the occasions as much as we enjoyed knowing her. Our deepest sympathy goes to Joe in this great loss. Also word has come that Tute Worthen's wife died September 9 of this year in her home in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a little less than three years after Tute's death. They left no children.

Helen, widow of Leslie A. Hatch, is living in Desert Hot Springs, Calif, (a contrast to Littleton, N. H., their home town), where at 81 she "lives quietly and reflectively on the desert in the best of health." They lost their son Laurence Leslie in 1950, who had a son and daughter, both now married, and there is a great grandson looking forward to college after his airborne training is finished. Agnes Danforth Hewes, wife of our classmate Laurence I. Hewes, who died in 1950 and whose monumental book on Highway Engineering was reviewed in our MAGAZINE last June, is herself a writer of over a dozen books, for " 'teen-agers," she says. My wife and I have greatly enjoyed reading' her CodfishMusket, an exciting historical novel of Revolutionary time. Their four children are Laurence I. Jr. (Dartmouth '24), a teacher at Harvard; Mary, wife of a New York City business executive; John, a civil engineer in Nevada; and Calhoun, a teacher of English in a high school in Richmond, Calif.

Of John Eckstorm there is news, but it's hard to get. He was recently given an award for thirty years of volunteer work in the safety service of the Columbus, Ohio, Red Cross, and he has completed over fifty years of the practice of medicine in Columbus. It is believed that he still follows his interest and active work in amateur boxing as a member of the Columbus Boxing Commission. Archie Kendall from his home in St. Petersburg, Fla., informs us that the years are accumulating for him and that his son Warren is in his second year in Stetson College in DeLand, Fla. I hope for more direct reports from Archie later, for your Secretary expects to be at 960 Broadway, Dunedin, Fla., by the last of October, to remain there for the winter. Chester Williams, who has spent a month in the hospital following an operation, is now at home, getting back his vigor and itching to be at work again in his office in Milford, Mass. His wife is still suffering from the effects of a broken hip of over a year ago. May they make a full recovery soon!

Since I sent out a recent letter to members of the Class, asking for the means to keep the old ship of '98 on its course, there has been an encouraging response for the first or financial count. The other, asking for news of each member is coming along and need not be stymied on any one's part by a sort of false modesty. A word of yourself, if it's only "same as usual" and a few more about your family, if you have one, are all that is needed. I know no one of us likes to see his name in print but all the rest of us do like to see his name in print. The majority should win in this case, so don't fail on your job of editorship from Adams to Williams, from Ohio to Texas and from Massachusetts to California.

Secretary and Treasurer 960 Broadway, Dunedin, Fla.

Bequest Chairman,