1889

Anne Ruffner Willis, granddaughter of the late Harold Warren Knight and post-deb daughter of Mrs. James Albert Carter of Milton, Mass., graduated cum laude from Sweet Briar College in Virginia last June, when the College was celebrating its 50-Year Anniversary. She prepared for college at Milton Academy where she graduated with high honors, and, at Sweet Briar College, she majored in history. During her college career she maintained an outstanding academic record in scholarship and during senior year was honored by election to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. In her senior year she was a member of Paint and Patches, the dramatic club, which she served as vice-president. She played varsity hockey and basketball on the Athletic Association teams, and was secretary of that Association her junior year. During sophomore year she served on the Orientation Committee and the same year was president of the French Club. In the 1952-53 season she made her debut and is a member of the Junior League and the Vincent Club of Boston.

Mrs. James Albert Carter, the former Martha Morton Knight, is the youngest of the four children (all now living) of the late Harold Warren Knight, of Charleston, West Virginia, who died 28 March 1915. was a student at Wellesley College from 1926 through 1928. Later she married Commander James Sturgis Willis U.S.N., a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Class of 1927. In World War II he was in command of a destroyer operating in the South Pacific. Part of that time Mrs. Willis and her two children, James Sturgis Willis Jr., and Anne Ruffner Willis, lived with the mother of Mrs. Willis in Charleston.

In 1944 Mrs. Willis took up residence in Milton, Mass., while her husband's ship was being commissioned in Boston Harbor and outfitted for a "shakedown" cruise. Soon afterwards Commander Willis was ordered back to the South Pacific. He had been rather sure that he would not be sent so far away again and for that reason had had his wife and children settle in Milton. A year later the sad news came that Commander Willis had been killed in action at Okinawa in April 1945 while commanding a division of destroyers. Since then Mrs. Willis has lived in Milton. For several years she had a secretarial position at Milton Academy where both of her children were graduated.

Her son James Sturgis Willis Jr. graduated from the United States Naval Academy, standing second in scholarship rank in his Class of more than 800 members. He is making the Navy his career, following in the footsteps of his father. In July 1954 he began Naval Aviation training. He won his wings about a year ago, and is now attached to a Squadron of Jet Planes in Jacksonville, Fla. On December 30 last he married Ruth Lawton of Longmeadow, Mass. Mrs. Willis' daughter Anne Ruffner Willis, who graduated from Sweet Briar College last June, now holds a teaching position in a St. Louis, Mo., country school for girls.

Mrs. Harold Warren Knight of Charleston, West Va., widow of our late classmate formally announced on June 20, 1955, the marriage at Milton, Mass., of her daughter Mrs. Martha Knight Willis to Mr. James Albert Carter. Mr. Carter is a graduate of Harvard, Class of 1925. After he finished graduate school he taught for one year at Dartmouth, and for the past 27 years has been head of the Latin and Greek Departments at Milton Academy. During this period three grandsons of Mrs. Knight have from time to time, been students at the Academy preparing for college.

Mrs. Knight, the former Martha Morton Hogeman, resides at 1319 Quarrier Street in Charleston - the old home of the Knight family. Last December Mrs. Knight fell and broke her hip. She was in the hospital for two months and has not been out of her house since leaving the hospital except to go by ambulance for an X-ray each month. She now is up in her wheel chair most of the day, and an elevator has been installed in her home so she can be taken downstairs and have a change of scene. Her good spirits have remained intact during this long invalidism, and she still retains the happy disposition and love of life and people that has characterized her personality throughout life.

Harold Warren Knight, one of the youngest and most popular members of his Class, received the highest prized honor that can be given in senior year when his classmates elected him Class Marshal for Commencement Day. His brother, Edward Wallace Knight '87, a leading lawyer in Charleston, West Va., served ten years as a trustee of Dartmouth. These two brothers were sons of Edward Boardman Knight '61, prominent lawyer of Charleston, a classmate of William Jewett Tucker, under whose presidency of Dartmouth the foundations were laid for the Dartmouth of today.

1889 Fund Contributors

11 Gifts (Participation Index 367) Total Gifts: $260.00

Bard, George P.1 Bartlett, Ralph S. Blair, Henry P.2' 3 Blakely, David N 4 Dartt, Francis P.5 Davis, Edwin B. Dow, Dexter D.6 Ferguson, Hardy S. Frost, Harry M.7 Noyes, Nathaniel K.8 Redfield, Burt H.9 Wellman, James A.10

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1Son, Robert Bard '19.

2Anonymous.

3Mrs. Nichol M. Sandoe.

4Daughter, Mrs. RobertB. Taylor.

5Sister, Mary A. Dartt.

6 Sister, Mrs. Jennie D.Henry.

7Mrs. Frost.

8Son, Edwin M. Noyes'15.

9Mrs. Redfield.

10Son-in-law, Robert P.Burroughs '21.

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