1899

Christmas Greetings to '99ers one and all. Now to the Birthday Circuit: It starts in Kittery, Me., with Joe Hobbs, Dec. 9; goes to Thomaston, Conn., Dec. 16 to Montie Fuller; the next day to Daytona Beach to greet Fred Crolius; two days before Christmas, back to Valhalla, N. Y., with Ed Allen.

Four other dates to commemorate: Sept. 20, Leon Martin's wife Eleanor died in Union, Me.; Sept. as, at the Alice Peck Day Hospital in Lebanon, died Lillia Musgrove's mother, Louise Howe Stewart; Oct. 14, Carolyn Woodward (Mrs. Walter C.) died on Bainbridge Island, Wash.; Oct. 18, Eunice Miller died in Boston.

Eleanor Dutton Martin's death was due to arthritis, besides a kidney infection. Though childless themselves Leon and Eleanor were devoted to the problem of underprivileged children. From 1928 to 1945 Leon was principal of the Good Will School, Hinckley, Me., founded by Dr. G. W. Hinckley, - "Work, play and sleep, together with wholesome food at regular hours" and wise, kindly guidance developed high-minded, physically fit men and women. At some later time we shall speak of Eleanor Martin as a poet.

Lillia Musgrove (Mrs. Frank A.) was the daughter of her mother's first husband, Fred B. Howe, of Lebanon; after the death in 1912 of her second husband, David W. Stewart, of Norwich, Vt., Mrs. Stewart lived with Lillia in Hanover. Today '99 warmly commemorates the life of this woman, born in Weathersfield, Vt., in 1858, dying only 10 weeks before her 100th birthday, Dec. 5. Member of Lebanon Methodist Church: 60-year member of Grafton Star Grange, Hanover; last charter member of Mt. Lebanon Rebekah Lodge; recipient of numerous honors from local, State and National Grange. Rev. Howard Smith, Church of Christ, officiated at the final service at Lillia's home. Interment was in Glenwood Cemetery, Lebanon. Survivors include Lillia, her two children, Mrs. Louise Pickering and Frank R. Musgrove, and her six grandchildren, all of Lebanon.

After two bed-ridden years Carolyn Woodward came to a quiet end in the Lynwood Sanitarium on Puget Sound. Like Bones she had completed the long trail from Randolph to Seattle. After a simple Episcopal service in that city her ashes were placed beside her husband's in Acacia Memorial Park. They were two wonderful Vermonters. Their sons, Walter Carleton, Jr. and Richard Robert '39, their wives Milly and Virginia, and six grandchildren survive; also a sister Fannie, Mrs. James C. Walker.

Services for Eunice, Peddy Miller's sister, were in Gordon Chapel. There Herbert Watson's wife Agnes talked with Peddy's daughter Gustova, — Mrs. D. Russell Friend of New Britain, Penna. Later we will tell about Eunice at Oberlin, in the Boston Department of Charity, and in the Old South Church.

Three years after the death of Luther Stevens Oakes, the College announces a bequest from his estate of nearly $38,000. A generous gift from a man loyal to all good causes, and in a special way over the years loyal to Dartmouth.

In the next '99 newsletter, among other items, will be recent news of: Maude Abbott (Mrs. "Pap") and their son Jim; Aldorf Abbott (Mrs. Ernest "Rab"); Adelaide French (Mrs. John M.); Eugenia Hyatt (Mrs. Edwin A.); Jessica Hyatt (Mrs. Willard I.); Leland Lyster (son of June and Herbert L.); Frances Prescott (Mrs. George J.); the Golden Wedding of Elmer and Mabel Woodman; and Eddie Skinner's full report on the 1958 Alumni Fund.

May Beal (Mrs. K.), after three weeks in the Winchester, Mass., Hospital, says, "I'm happy to report that I'm better. Thanks for many friendly greetings and remembrances."

The Chairman of the Executive Committee, Warren Kendall, and the Secretary remind you:

NINETY-NINE'S SIXTIETH

Just glimmering on the horizon . . . June 12, 13, 14 - 1959

Secretary, Newbury Rd., Bradford, N. H,

Treasurer, 11 Park View Drive, Worcester 5, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,