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George Hiram Hitchcock '54, a grandson and namesake of the late George Hiram Hitchcock of our Class, is a naval aviation cadet. He recently qualified as a carrier pilot after six landings aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saipan in the Gulf of Mexico. At the present time he is undergoing further flight training at Pensacola, Fla.

Prof. Edwin Bell Davis, noted educator at Rutgers University of the 1889-year vintage of Dartmouth College, has lately been taking a lot of pleasure in reading the Latin Vulgate version of the New Testament translated from the Greek by St. Jerome in the Fifth Century, which, he writes, is accepted as authoritative by the Roman Catholic Church. That late Latin is, to his taste, ugly, he states, compared to the language of Vergil or Cicero, but, he adds, St. Luke's history of Paul's mission to the Gentiles in the Acts of the Apostles contains some stirring passages, such as when Paul appeals to Rome, and Festus responds in those few vibrant words: "Caesarem appellastef adCaesarem ibis," and, in the 26th chapter, the masterly defence of Paul before King Agrippa, portions of which in Latin are quoted in his letter. Continuing, he writes: "For the lover of language, of sound, of melody, no translation can give the impact of the original. It will be different, maybe better, maybe worse, but the heavily weighted chances are that it will lack the flavor and force of the original in ''he finer passages. I mean, of course, with the Latin sounds, not with the hybrid ones the school taught when we were teenagers." At this point, our scholarly 89-year-old classmate ended his letter in true scholastic fashion: "Lecture over. Class dismissed."

"Doc" Warden, our late Class President, less than two months after his graduation, left home in his native state of New Hampshire, went West, and began his life work in what then was a territory soon to be admitted to statehood as the State of Montana. He settled in a small town near, and named after, the great falls of the Missouri river. Here he grew up with the town, became publisher of the Great Falls Tribune, and rose to become a leading citizen of the State of Montana and known throughout the entire Northwest. In the early days of his living in Great Falls, there was no other Dartmouth graduate there. Today in the freshman class at Dartmouth are four members of the 1955 Great Falls High School graduating class, all of whom were awarded four-year scholarships by Dartmouth, having a total value of $22,560. The recipients are: (1) Robert L. Young, who received a four-year scholarship of $1,100 per year. He intends to study medicine. He ranked third among 140 boys in the 1955 high school class, and was in the top third of the entire graduating class of more than 300 seniors. He scored high in his college entrance examination board tests. In - he was a member of the Great Falls High School varsity football team which won the state championship. (2) Jack Wells, who received a four-year scholarship of $1,700 per year. He intends to pursue a career in chemical engineering. He ranked high in his graduating class and scored high in his college entrance examination board tests. He also was a member of the Great Falls High School varsity football team which won the state championship. (3) David L. Lawrence, who received a four-year scholarship of $1,410 per year. He was president of the Great Falls High School band and of the United Christian Youth movement in Great Falls. He plans to pursue a course of training leading to executive work in the Young Men's Christian Association. He too was a member of the Great Falls High School champion football team. (4) Jack Tonkovich, who received a four-year scholarship of $1,430 per year. He plans to study engineering. He ranked high in his graduating class, also in his college entrance examination board tests. He served as a member of the Student's Council in the Great Falls High School. All four of these students received scholarship offers from several other major institutions of higher learning.

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