1904

Oh Wing!! Oughty four up!! for this is the beginning of our 55th reunion year coming up in June, 1959. Fifty-three men attended our 50th and twelve our fifty-fourth. Last June our headquarters were in Fayerweather Hall. We not only had a god time, we also found the facilities excellent — so - Fayerweather is to be our rallying point this next June.

Paste this date in your bonnet too, Oct. 24, the night before the Harvard game. Your committee in due time will announce the meeting place. It will not be in a place where "cloistered aloofness" prevails, but rather in a more democratic atmosphere.

Squid's final report to the Class on the results of the Alumni Fund is at hand - together with news of classmates. It was a splendid report. As always our sisters have loyally supported the Fund. To them and to all classmates goes the thanks of the College, and a Wah Hoo Wah for Squid.

At Commencement time two of our classmates were honored. Carl Woods received the Dartmouth Alumni Award for outstanding services to the College. He received a replica of the original Wheelock Bowl. Sid Rollins was elected to the executive committee of the General Alumni Association. Sid has also assumed the Bequest Program, which Ned Bartlett had carried on for the Class. A Wah Hoo Wah for both men of whom the Class of '04 is very proud.

Recently there was placed in the Library, by the Friends of the Dartmouth Library, a book entitled "Illustrations of American Ornithology" purchased by the Friends, in London. Authors: Alexander Wilson, C, L. Boneparte and Major Thomas Brown, London 1835, a folio 124 plates in color. This book will have a book plate in memory of Edwin Rice Bartlett - 1904 - long a generous contributor to the Friends of the Library.

Sid and Louise and Kate Sewall are sending grandsons to KUA this fall. Sid, as you know, is a trustee of that grand old Academy. Beck will now lead in a big cheer for KUA.

Wonderfully fine letter from Dave andMildred Ford. Here's a line he sends for classmates to mull over - "Continuous reunion in spirit and by letter is heightened by sight and sound." What a welcome the Class will give Dave and Mildred in June , ,

Bascom Brayton has returned to the old farm in Idaho Falls. Here's wishing him health, comfort and cheer. He is blessed by a devoted daughter, Louise, to care for him.

Peacham has had another set back. Write him a note. There is no more devoted classmate than Peacham.

The Hinmans went fishing this summer in Canada. Poor luck. The Robys spent the summer in Europe — just received a card from them from Dartmouth, England. The Johnsons spent a few days in Falmouth, Cape Cod. Visited Robbie and Hope in their beautiful home at South Dartmouth. They were both well. Called on Louis Dow '02.

The Class will be saddened by the news of the passing of two classmates - Henry Hall, June 25 and Amasa Bowles, July 14. Both had retired from business and had been ill for several months prior to their deaths. Two loyal classmates gone to their rest.

It is our sad duty to report the death of Philip S. "Peacham" Blanchard of a heart attack on September 4 in Chicago.

At the '05 get-together in Hanover in July were (l to r) W. B. Small, Andrew MacMillan, "Sliver" Hatch, George Putnam, Alva Hatch, and (seated) "Bea" MacMillan.

Secretary, 100 North St., Pittsfield, Mass.

Treasurer, Box 406, Morristown, N. J.

Bequest Chairman,