1907
Retirements and health factors are responsible for an increasing number of address changes during recent years. Examples are Bill Walker, Art Winslow, Hobbs Knight,Crick Crocker, Hermon Hill, Charlie Richardson, Bob Kenyan, Harry Whitaker, John Jewett, Leon Sprague, Bob Stokes, - to mention only a few.
McKay Howard has retired recently and has enjoyed an extended visit to France. The son of our classmate, Rev. DavidThomas, reports that his father has had a very poor health record during recent years. His home is in Okmulgee, Okla.
Mrs. Charles Fields has expressed her deep appreciation for the flowers sent to the services for Charlie by the class.
Hobbs Knight has retired to Ogunquit, Maine, as previously reported. Recently we learn that he visits his daughter Esther in Coral Gables, Fla., for a month during the winter.
A friendly note from Swipes Andrews to Sam Bartlett reads something like this: "Glad to get your note and learn you are still just a kid, only 68. Wait until you hit 70 and the weight of years presses down on your gray hairs, and tightens up your joints so that they squeak when you walk. I envy you your youth. Have a good time. You are only young once." (Note: This is only the first paragraph. If demanded, later paragraphs, expurgated, will follow.)
Our West Coast classmate and poet "Bit'Hoyt encourages your secretary more than he realizes when he writes that "the items in the Class Report in the MAGAZINE are the soil, the water, fertilizer and chemicals that keep my Dartmouth spirit flourishing." Now this secretary knows what Manna from Heaven means.
How many '07 men remember Joe O'Connor? Joe was born in Lawrence, Mass. He attended Andover for four years and Dartmouth for two, rooming in Hanover with Mike Clough. He received a law degree at Boston University in 1911. Later that year he had an opportunity to practice his profession in Saskatchewan Province in Canada and took it. He has been in Canada ever since, though his home and practice are now in Vancouver, B. C. In Saskatchewan, he held the position of Crown Prosecutor, similar to our District Attorneyship, for eighteen years. He married and has three children, two sons and a daughter, all grown up and busy with their respective interests. - Bill and Helen Cummings called on Joe some years ago, possibly the only classmate Joe has seen for years. Last May, Joe attended an alumni dinner of the Dartmouth Club of Western Washington in Seattle honoring President Dickey. Joe won't object to these quotations from his letter. "I listened as Prexy spoke. My pleasure was sharpened by delight. Rich in the currency of the learned, his was a simplicity that borders on genius. His whole manner touched perfection." Good for you, Joe! Born in 1876, Joe is one of our veterans. Welcome back to our ranks!
The death of Louis Edwin Fisher is re- ported in the In Memoriam columns of this issue. Fisher was an active member of '07 for a very short period since he left college in 1903, a few months after matriculation. A citizen of Hopedale, Mass., for most of his mature life, he has never participated in Dartmouth and '07 affairs.
OFFICERS OF '07: Attending a Class Officers' dinner in Hovey Grill were (I to r): Phil Chase,Class Agent; Jim O'Neill, President; Sam Bartlett, Treasurer; Dick Southgate, former Secretary;and Dick Lane, Secretary.
Secretary, 140 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass.
Treasurer, 25 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y.
Bequest Chairman,
