1904
With so many greeting cards in my basket in front of me from classmates and the widows of classmates, it's a pleasure to report I find all the gals and boys feeling pretty well. Thank you all for your gracious greetings.
One of my friends of 1914 recently sent me a copy of my Class Notes of October 1932.
Dr. David Ford had just resigned his position as health officer of Craven County, N. C., to return to private practice. State and County officials gave Dave high praise for his fine work in improving the health of the County and expressed sincere regrets upon his retirement.
Bob Moseley had just delivered an address on George Washington before the American Lodge of Masons, No. 3368 of London, England.
The Secretary mentions an invitation received to attend the graduation at West Point of Cadet Arthur W. Blair, son of Hugh Blair. You will recall in my 50th-year Class Book I record that Lt. Col. Blair was killed in action in Germany, on Christmas Day, 1943.
Gene Sewall and Robbie had been on a fishing trip to Moosehead Lake, employing an Indian guide who knew the two Indians in our class, Nelson and Hamilton. The Secretary has written these two classmates off and on for 23 years but has never received a line from them.
An invitation to the wedding of Janet Merrian Woodbridge, daughter of King and Josephine Woodbridge, to Jean Jeanneney of Paris, France, was at hand. She was a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College and had studied at the Ecole du Louvre and the Universite de Paris. Mr. Jeanneney was the Paris representative of the International Business Machine.
The Secretary regrets to record the death of our classmate Percival B. Cobb on December 4, 1955. In another section of this number of the MAGAZINE you will find an In Memoriam to Perce. This makes six of our classmates who have passed on during 1955: Freddie Root, Johnny Kirker, Harry Chase, Dan Colesworthy, Jerome Myers, and Perce Cobb. Time nor space nor chance nor change, nor death himself shall cause us to forget them.
Nice letter from Whit, who loans a lot of money from the till of the Export Import Bank of Washington, D. C. Both he and Vilda are quite well and now making plans for future travels abroad. Happy landing Whit!!
Perk writes from Sacramento that he is now semi-retired, killing time at golf, bridge and Canasta. His estimate of and tribute to President Dickey, who visited the alumni of Southern California in October, Would make every Dartmouth man proud of the head of our college.
Brother Lester Gibson from California sent me a fine letter at Christmas time. He and Ida May visited friends and relatives of the Massachusetts Colony during the past summer. Ida May had her first glimpse of Dartmouth College and continues to recount the glories of Dartmouth to her friends. Lester took her to the tomb of Eleazar Wheelock, about which she had heard so much. Come again, Lester.
George A. Lewis, "Child Lewis" to us, now a retired engineer, has left White Plains, N. Y., where he lived for so many years, and now resides in Helena, Mont., RFD-A, Box 30, "out where the buffalo roams." He will make his home with his oldest daughter. Judging from his letter he lives in happy surroundings - a grand view of the Continental Divide; Old Granddad and a pipe on the smoking stand at his left, and books and magazines at his right: Child, may you enjoy to the full - health, comfort and cheer.
At the Dartmouth Club of Burlington (Vt.) dinner meeting on November 5, Prof. Myron E. Witham '04 was the guest of honor and Dean Arthur H. Kiendl '44, the speaker.
Secretary, 100 North St., Pittsfield, Mass.
Treasurer, Morristown, N. J.
Bequest Chairman,
