1902

Fifty-six years ago this month we graduated from our Alma Mater; 136 young and ambitious men. Our record since is one in which we may well feel pride. Fifteen or more have been listed in "Who's Who in America." Our list of teachers is impressive with at least 11 professors, including four on the Dartmouth faculty and, in the fields of law and medicine, we have had outstanding representation. I am sure that every classmate will agree with me that it is our great good fortune to have had two such loyal classmates as Percy Dorr and Duckie Drake, who not only have achieved great success in the world of finance and business, but have also generously financed most of the expenses of our last 3 reunions, with the aid of Harold Plumer at our 55th. Certainly we should finally honor "Dr. Bob" Smith who, after a bitter personal battle against alcoholism, became a co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous and is perhaps the most widely beloved man from 1902. I recently read in my local paper that there were 9 chapters of A.A. in just my own county in Maine.

Now we are reduced to a bit over two score living graduates and I want to say as secretary pro tem that you have been most generous in answering my requests for news and thank you for it. Arba Irvin is improving and I hope will feel like resuming the secretaryship this fall.

One other item of particular interest at this time came to me in a letter from our president, "Wattie." In speaking of the Korean students living with him he says:

Two of them are really marvels. One, who had not had more than a year of English before he came to Dartmouth, now regularly gets A's in all his five courses, including such mysteries as semantics, mathematical logic, and all varieties of philosophy. He can now write a paper on the most abstruse of these that you couldn't distinguish from the work of a seasoned philosopher. His mission in life, he says, is to bring Korea's thinking up to date! Another of my Koreans is a genius (that's no exaggeration) in Physics. The Department has him correct all their papers, and he's just been accepted for a summer's work at high pay at the Fairhaven scientific laboratories on Long Island. And yet when he came here only two years ago he knew hardly any English at all.

Acting Secretary, 19 Channel Rd., S. Portland, Me.

Class Agent, 35 Du Bois St., Noroton, Conn.