1900

I regret to report the death of Roger Dunlap's wife Alice Gates Dunlap on February 12, after a prolonged illness. She had been hospitalized for a long time in Concord, N. H. Funeral services were held in Concord on Saturday, February 15, and burial was at Pine Grove Cemetery in East Concord. Alice is survived by two daughters and six grandchildren.

Jo Wentworth's wife Maude left Brookline, Mass., late in February to spend three months in San Francisco and vicinity.

Paul Redington's son, Comdr. Edward Dana Redington, after more than fifteen years of : technical and administrative experience in military electronics, is soon to retire from the Armed Services. He, his wife and four sons are going back to California to make their home. In a letter to me he states as his reason for going to the Pacific Coast: "I don't know for sure what I will be doing, but California will top the State of New York by 1970 in population - perhaps even in industry - and that looks like a good challenge for the boys."

Mabel Downing, wife of Pete Downing, is staying for three months this winter with her sister in Sarasota, Fla. She remarks in her letter that she is in cold Florida, still hoping for warm weather. Let us hope that at this writing better days have come and have brought the hope for warmth not alone to Mabel but as well to the 1900 contingent now in that area.

It should be a matter of interest to the class that there is a 1900 Scholarship Fund. This fund has been established so quietly and without fanfare that many of us have not known of its existence. It was started in 1951 by an original gift from Harry Sampson and, in 1953, supplemented by a gift from Walter Rankin. At this time it took the name of the 1900 Scholarship Fund. Since then, additional amounts have been paid into the fund until, as of today, the capital sum is approximately $20,000. The class is deeply grateful to Harry and Walter for their foresight, generosity, and loyalty to Dartmouth in initiating this fund. Details of our fund may be found on p. 75 of the current College catalog.

The next item is not exactly news but a reminiscence of our College days. And it still further proves, I believe, that your secretary is at the point of scraping the bottom of the barrel. During my junior year in College I took a course in geology taught by Professor Hitchcock. Just why I took this particular course, at this rather remote date, I have not the foggiest notion. Of the geology I recall very little, but one incident which occurred in that classroom has remained with me over the years. Two of our industrious and enterprising classmates decided to play a joke on "Type." Painstakingly they rigged up a fearful and wonderful bug by taking parts of several bugs and sticking them together in what appeared, to the young gentlemen, to be a very presentable prehistoric member of the Scarabaeidae family. At the end of a class hour these two mischievous young men approached the podium from which Professor Hitchcock genially imparted knowledge, and said, "Professor would you kindly tell us what kind of a bug this might be?" The professor, carefully adjusting his spectacles and critically examining the fabulous specimen, said: "Gentlemen, I think this is a humbug." Exit the abashed boys who did not stand upon the order of their going, but went at once.

And finally a recent newspaper dispatch quotes the United States Bureau of Health as saying that the average duration of life is steadily increasing and that at age 65 man is just beginning to live. On the basis of this stupendous pronouncement there is some hope for us after all.

Secretary, 3 Pleasant St., Hanover, N. H.

Class Agent, Vinoy Park Hotel 5h Ave. & Beach Drive, N.E. St. Petersburg 31, Fla.