1889
In memory of our late classmate George P.Bard, his niece, Mrs. Constance Bard Wyman of Oklahoma City, and his nephew, bearing the name of George Bard, have pooled their resources and sent money to the Librarian of Baker Library, leaving it to the Librarian to make a selection of books for the Library in their uncle's memory.
Your secretary, at the invitation of the Alumni Fund Committee, joined with the Class Agents and other guests at the 1956 Alumni Fund kick-off dinner at the Boston Club on evening of March 28. About 150 were present. Joshua B. Clark '11, president of Class Agents, presided. The speakers were: William G. Morton '28, Fund Chairman, Nichol M. Sandoe Jr. '45, Executive Secretary, and Donald H. Morrison, College Provost.
The widow of O. S. Warden was honorary chairman of the committee in charge of a $35-a-plate dinner at Meadow Lark Country Club, Great Falls, Mont., on February 24, to honor the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and help to swell party coffers for the coming national campaign. James Roosevelt, Democratic Representative from Calif., was the principal speaker.
In the passing years of a long and interesting life, Prof. Edwin Bell Davis now is sharing with his wife the joy of their being the great-grandparents of two charming children, a 2-year-old girl, Cherie Lyn, and a one-year-old boy, Howard. They are the children of their granddaughter Nancy Jane Davis, and Richard W. Keating, who were married in March 1953. These great-grandchildren were born in the home of their parents in St. Petersburg, Fla., where their father, and their mother's unmarried brother, Richard Donald Davis, have all-the-year-round employment. Their home is a model of good housekeeping, due largely to the home economics courses in a junior college Nancy took before her marriage. She and her brother Richard are children of Donald Edwin Davis, a son of our classmate, who was born in Hampden, Maine, June 19, 1894. He is a graduate of Rutgers in class of 1917, and, in Lunenburg, Mass., October 17, 1925, was married to Abbie Loraine HaywoOd. He is on the working, staff of the Central Vermont Railroad. They live in St. Albans, Vt., where they have a home of their own and good neighbors - a fine community with beautiful surroundings.
Last June Nancy's motherly responsibility and courage were shown, when, unassisted, with her two babies she flew up to northern Vermont, changing planes at the Boston airport, to spend the summer with her parents. Three months later she reversed the airplane trip with her babies, all on her own, back to her home in Florida. In addition to their son Donald Edwin Davis, Professor and Mrs. Davis have a daughter, Elizabeth Kidder Davis. She was born September 30, 1898, and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College in the class of 1921. Professor Davis was born in Lawrence, Mass.. June 13, 1866, a son of Bryan B. and Amelia (Lockwood) Davis. His parents were born in England. His preparation for entering Dartmouth was at the Manchester (N.H.) High School. He graduated with our Class with highest honors. On August 11, 1892, at Hampden, Maine, he married Elizabeth Stetson Norris, whose mother belonged to the well known Stetson family of Bangor, Maine, whose members have been prominent back to the time of colonial days. Mrs. Davis has long been a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. A few years immediately following his graduation, our classmate taught, first, at the New Brunswick (N.J.) High School, then at the Academy in Salt Lake City, later at the New Hampshire Agricultural College - two years in Hanover, and one year after it. had moved to Durham, N.H. He studied at the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris in 1894 and 1895, then began teaching at Rutgers College. In 1904 he became head professor at Rutgers of the Department of Romance Languages, which position he held until his retirement in 1941 under the new retirement plan, when he became Professor of Romance Languages, Emeritus.
His summers were often spent abroad in study and travel, chiefly in France and Italy. His foreign studies were principally in the Romance Languages and phonetics. On these trips abroad he usually traveled alone. In the early 19205, however, Mrs. Davis accompanied him on a fifteen-months' visit devoted mainly to France, Italy and Switzerland. They traveled by easy stages, staying about six weeks at each stopping place in France and Italy, and two weeks at each place m Switzerland, visiting some of the places twice Their summers were sometimes spent at the Lake Placid Club in New York State. Here he devoted himself more to rest and fresh air than to books, and from there, across Lake Champlain, a visit was usually made to the home of his son in St Albans. Other summers were spent by him, his wife and daughter, in Hanover, where much time was devoted by him to study in Baker Library. Today, blessed with the love and ties of three younger living generations in his family, Professor Davis lives with his devoted wife and daughter in the quiet, peaceful atmosphere of their long-time home on Hamilton Road, a few miles out of town in the suburban district of New Brunswick, N.J.
Secretary,Chairman, RALPH S. BARTLETT 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.
Class Agent, 29 Ocean View Rd., Cape Elizabeth, Me,
