1907

Two events of unusual significance in '07's history have taken place during recent months. The 50th reunion seems by many of those who participated as the most satisfying and enjoyable gathering in the long history of the class. The second most significant event is surely the record-breaking achievement established by the gift of the class to the Alumni Fund. The loyalty and devotion of '07 men to Dartmouth has never been in question. Its Fiftieth Year gift says in no uncertain terms that Dartmouth can count on '07 for all its future. Hats off to Phil Chase and his team for their leadership.

Thanks are due and are herewith expressed to Jack Childs '09, Newsletter Editor, and to his group of talented friends, for their contribution to '07's entertainment, following the class dinner; and for Jack's mailing to all '07 members his Special Reunion Edition of his Dartmouth Diddings in which he evidenced his friendship for our class.

Bruno Kimball, who was unable to attend the 50th because of an accident to his wife, Ethel, just before reunion, is keenly interested in the class picture and in other events reported in the July ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

Arthur Spear, a graduate of Bridgton Academy, North Bridgton, Me., has been honored by election to the Presidency of the Board of that institution. He succeeds a devoted graduate of Bridgton and Dartmouth, Edgar H. Hunter '01, whose recent death was a severe loss to Hanover, to his school and to Dartmouth. Congratulations, Arthur, your school picked, an able leader!

Mr. and Mrs. George Liscomb, former residents of Chelmsford, Mass., are now living in Pembroke, N. H., where they have recently purchased a home.

At an Open House at Colby College, in Waterville, Me., on August 15, the first showing of the Helen Warren and Willard Howe Cummitigs Collection of American Painting and Sculpture followed the presentation of the collection to the college.

Ed Ashley has been visiting in Middlebury, Vt., during most of the summer. Phil and Theora Chase are summering, as usual, in Kennebunk, Me. Phil has retired from the Philadelphia Electric Company and plans to extend his Maine vacation into the fall months.

A second child, first son, was born on July 20 to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph S. Perkins Jr., in the Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

Bill Jennings and Cliff Norris may have been surprised to read in the Fifty Year Report that "Bill is now the oldest living graduate of our class, leading Cliff Norris by one month and 21 days." It must now be reported that this statement is incorrect, due to a mistake on a questionnaire. It now appears that Walter Nesmith was born April 25, 1877, and is now 80 years of age; Bill Jennings was born September 16, 1878 and will soon be 79. If any classmate can successfully challenge the above statements, the editors of the Fifty Year Report will take appropriate corrective action. (Questionnaires are sometimes difficult to read.)

Mrs. Roland Tileston, widow of our distinguished classmate, has expressed her appreciation of the Fifty Year Report and the brief resume included in it of Roland's outstanding record as a teacher and physicist.

Quotes about '07's 50th are: "It was a wonderful reunion," Ed Barker. "It was a memorable reunion, Tute Worthen. "No words can tell how much I enjoyed the 50th," Ed Ashley. "Our Fiftieth Reunion set a mark for future classes to shoot at and only hope to equal," Herb Mitchell. "A month ago we were enjoying our happy 50th reunion in Hanover and I don't like to think that this is the end of the story for another five years," Arthur Leavitt. "Of course I told (a friend) of my wonderful 50th reunion, about which I have the happiest of memories," Miss Annah Hazen.

Sometime before Lou Gerry went to Hanover for the 50th, he was honored by the Providence Chapter of the National Secretary's Association as "Boss of the Year." Lou is president of the Investor's Trust Co., and of the Rhode Island Hospital.

Your class secretary received a letter after the reunion from Miss Mary A. Beals, daughter of our deceased classmate, the Reverend Charles E. Beals, from the Inanda Seminary, Natal, South Africa. Mary is thought to have been '07's class baby. She had visited Hanover on several occasions with her father and had developed a considerable interest in the class and college. Now she is head teacher in a school for Zulu girls, at high school level with about 225 pupils and a staff of eleven teachers. She teaches English and History in the senior classes and arranges classes and examinations. As she was writing, the school was visited by a group of Smith College girls. Mary hopes to be home on furlough in 1959. A copy of the reunion issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is being sent to her.

Harry Warner made a brief visit to Boston in August accompanied by his daughter. Bill Smart, Bishop Niles, Bill Grimes and Harry McDevitt were his guests for lunch. Harry, though unable to attend the Fiftieth, enjoys good health, continues to be active in bustness and retains his interest in college and his class.

Louis C. Wood, a resident of East Waterboro, Me., for some years and a graduate of University of Maine, has moved from his north-eastern habitat to Los Angeles, Calif., a big step. We hope he will tell us what factors induced him to establish a new home in the West.

Three Dartmouth Generations: Theodore T. Redington '07, flanked by his son Dana '34 and his grandson Bob, who matriculated as a '61 this fall. All reside in Santa Barbara, Calif. The first member of this Dartmouth family, General Redington, graduated in 1861.

Secretary, 8 West Hill Place Boston 14, Mass.

Treasurer, 25 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y,

Bequest Chairman,