1889

Prof. Edwin B. Davis, distinguished member of our Class and Professor Emeritus of Rutgers University, died July 24 at his home in New Brunswick, N. J. During the past few years he had been in poor health, which was given a set-back when he fell and broke his hip a little more than a year ago. His passing leaves this secretary the only member of '89 now living. The In Memoriam notice of Prof. Davis appears in this issue.

In Hanover last June at Commencement time Sanborn '87 and this secretary were the oldest members of the alumni present. The traditional gathering in former years of '89 men each year holding a rendezvous in Hanover at Commencement time came to an end last June with only one of the two then living members present. The distaff side of '89 Family Group, however, was fortunately represented by the presence of Mable Frost and Sally Redfield, widows of two deceased members of the Class. Friday evening Sanborn '87 was host to these three at an informal dinner at the Hanover Inn. Saturday forenoon a group photograph was taken on the lawn of the Inn of the two oldest grads present, in which was included a '58 undergraduate, a member of Key, who was assigned as a special guide to serve the oldest grad present during the Commencement weekend.

Saturday noon our group of four, escorted by the guide from Key, attended the Alumni Luncheon in the gymnasium at which all graduates were guests of the College, following which we were present at (he annual Alumni Meeting in the large auditorium on the top floor of the gymnasium. At the beginning of the exercises Sidney C. Hayward, Secretary of the College, requested the two oldest graduates seated in the front row of. seats to arise, and they were given an ovation by the large audience present. While in Hanover letters were written by each of the three members present of the '89 Group and mailed to Prof. Davis—then in extremely poor health, the only living member of the Class absent. Sunday forenoon we occupied front seats at the Commencement Exercises on the lawn in front of Baker Library, at the close of which Dartmouth's 1957 Commencement passed into history.

Alice Noyes of Plymouth, Mass., a member of our Class Family Group, writes that she has had a busy summer and recently has sold her house at 17 Brewster Street. She will continue to occupy the house until the first of October. Mrs. Benjamin F. Ellis of Evanston, Ill., another member of our Class Family Group, writes that she and her family have just returned from Brook Forest, Colo., "a lovely mountain spot ten thousand feet high in the Rockies," she writes, where they spent two weeks.

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