1897

Twenty-three of our classmates are happy to welcome the coming of spring. We all want news of each other. The job of getting some news to publish each month of the college year is not an easy task. Our activities are tapering off but I feel sure our studied views of our period are worth having codified.

Butterfield. did a fine job of painting ouractivities in our virile period of middle age,and Rollins painted us at our older period.Now that we have reached the time of feweractivities, I feel that our conclusions of whatare worthwhile values still are outstanding inour minds, as we reached the four-score period. What do we firmly believe in the sunsetperiod of 80?

We are sure that speed of life has its hazards, but we accept speed as a demand of our times. We have lived through three wars and some small half-wars. We have seen the comforts of life in our homes and discomfort and danger on our highways, which have reached the saturation point in many cities and between them.

We are all saddened to learn of the death of Mary Gibson, wife of our classmate Harold Hamilton. She died unexpectedly of a heart attack on Sunday, February 5, at the Gibson home in Orlando, Fla. All who knew her appreciated her gentleness and quiet humor. She will be missed by those who came in contact with her in class gatherings, and by her many friends. She is survived by three sons, Harold Hamilton Jr. '26, of Swarthmore, Pa.; David, of Hartford, Conn., also a Dartmouth graduate, of the Class of 1940; and Arthur, a businessman in Orlando. Other survivors are a brother, a sister and four grandchildren. The Gibsons celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary last year.

We all remember Teddy Appleton, one of our tall men, clean cut, with a profile an artist would like to use on a coin. I think he has changed less than most of us. His work has been largely with railroads and banks in accounting departments. He is retired and lives in New Hampshire.

J. D. Brown has helped New York to give its schools land use maps of value in the teaching of the early history of man in the state, before the Indians. He comes in close touch with schools and teachers. He is one of the few of our class who has been in the same line of work since graduation.

Gibson has had an active business life in such widespread areas as New York, Chicago, St. Louis, California and Florida. Gib has always been artistic himself and has made artistic advertising pay off.

Morse has always been conservative and for a long time has been selling conservative investments, bonds mostly, which have helped to finance the solid progress of our great corporations and public improvement.

Sibley and Temple have been and still are Judges. Both are well known and we all are proud of them. Ward has for a long time been active as a doctor, with time left to study river pollution as a health measure. Our two preachers, Henderson and Watson have learned the power of two elements of leadership: the use of pure English and charity.

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