1907
Sad news must be reported again. During October, two of '07's best have ended their earthly careers. They are Tom Field and Vic King.
Tom died at his home near Jacksonville, Fla., on October to, following an illness last May. After undergoing surgery in the chest area, believed to have been successful, he failed to regain strength, and after a short period in a hospital near his home, our popular classmate and devoted Dartmouth alumnus passed away.
Dr. Victor Louis King, "Vic" to his classmates, terminated an outstanding career as a chemical engineer when he died at his home in Bound Brook, N. J., on October 12. The cause of his death is not known. His classmates saw Vic infrequently during his busy career, but he was always received warmly when he returned to Hanover from time to time.
His four sons, all Dartmouth graduates, and two grandsons, one a member of 1957' the other an undergraduate in 1959, were responsible for many visits to Hanover by Vic and Mrs. King. When Vic and his wife returned to Hanover for '07's Fiftieth, many classmates who had seen him infrequently since undergrad days, were amazed at his apparent vigor. Probably no member of '07 has had a more active career than Vic, or was held in greater esteem.
Further information about these two classmates will be found in the In Memoriam section of this or a later issue.
Since the last issue of the MAGAZINE, your secretary has learned of the serious illnesses of two classmates. Loyal Sprague's son, Loyal Jr., writes that his father suffered a stroke at Christmas in 1953, and was hospitalized for several months. Since then he has made his home with his son and his son's family on their farm near Peoria, Ill. Since 1954, Loyal has had several recurrent heart attacks.
Bill Grimes has also suffered a stroke and has been confined in the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital.
Lou Gerry has also been ill for several weeks, but now reports improved health.
Bill Jennings, in reply to a birthday greeting, his Both, writes that he has recently spent a month at Stewart Springs, in northern California, describing the Springs as a fountain of youth. That is worth knowing, to those of us who haven't reached Bill's age record.
Cliff Norris, who is less than two months younger than Bill Jennings, writes that his wife, Jessie, passed away suddenly on August 9, 1958. Cliff now lives alone in his home in Warwick, R. I., but, fortunately, he has two sons and grandchildren not very far away.
The October ALUMNI MAGAZINE comments at some length on Dwight Hiestand's most interesting career. Your secretary can now report that though nominally retired, Dwight is still as active as any member of '07. He reports that he is now holding down two jobs in Chicago, one of forty hours of research work, and another of thirty hours per week, a total of seventy hours per week. For a man of 74 years of age, that isn't so bad, is it? He is actively interested in opera, as he has been for many years, but he also keeps a lively interest in football. He attended the Northwestern-Michigan game recently, and had ex- pected to fly to Boston for the Harvard-Dartmouth game, which he had not seen since 1903, - the game which our generation will never forget - but he was unable to make the trip, due to an accident which damaged a knee. Quite an active young man!
A small, but representative group of Boston '07 men dined together on the evening before the Harvard-Dartmouth game. They were Smart, Cochrane, Grebenstein, Sanborn and Kitching.
We have a man with a hobby in our class. His name is Arthur Spear, and he lives in Portland, Me., i.e., when he is not air-borne. As this is written, Arthur is in Paris or London. He was one of 120 who secured passage on the first New York to Paris jet flight. There were more than 2,000 applications for the 120 seats, but Art got his. He writes that he had applied two years ago, and believes that Pan American Lines recognized his unusual flying record, which started forty years ago. In 1953, Spear flew a 40,000 mile trip around the world. This time he will visit Paris and London only. The flight took off from New York on Sunday, October 26, and is scheduled to terminate at Idlewild Airport, in New York, on November 1.
Reverend Charles Wing '07, who is and has been for some years, minister-at-large on the staff of the American Unitarian Association, has been appointed interim minister of the First Parish Church in Quincy, Mass. The church is known as the Old Ship Church.
Francis L. Childs '06 (r), Professor of EnglishEmeritus, with his former English honorsstudent, Francis H. Horn '30, whose inauguration as President of the University of RhodeIsland he attended as the official representative of Dartmouth College. At the inauguralluncheon President Horn paid glowing tribute to his former teacher.
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