1899
Class Reunion - The 60th Hanover, June 12, 13, 14
The death of Arthur Dean Wiggin on Feb. 10 reduces the fellowship of living '99ers to twenty-five. A tribute to "Bill," or "Wig," as he was familiarly called, is among the Memorials in this issue. A paragraph printed below from one of his letters may interest other Dartmouth men as well as his classmates. Another Class Newsletter later this spring may have additional echoes of his life.
"There's a town up in Caledonia County, Vt., named Wheelock after old Eleazar himself, a grant to him in the old days. Ozias Mathewson '90 came from that town. Charles F. Mathewson, valedictorian of '82 and well known benefactor of the College, and trustee from 1894 to 1915, came from my home town, Barton, as did Leon White '90, head of a great Boston hospital."
At Swampscott last June we voted to merge the '59 Round-Up with our June 12-13-14 Sixtieth. Now we have to decide in what form, beginning in 1960, we can continue our ancient tradition of the annual Round-Up. Distance, disability, expense are serious problems for many. This question needs more time than the brief hours of a reunion. The secretary, therefore, has asked a number of our men and women to bring concrete recommendations in June.
The death of Edward ("Weary") Wardle's widow, Maude, on Jan. 4 was reported in March. Their daughter Gratia besides playing the organ at St. Luke's in Takoma, Md., teaches in a private school and has piano pupils at home besides. Son Harry in Quincy, Mass., has three sons, - Roger, Allen and Lee. Daughter Rosemary has two sons, Edward, Wesleyan '61, and Hugh, Haverford '62. There will be a final service for Maude at East Hartford, Vt., in late June.
The death of Arthur Kimball's widow, Emma or "Aunt Emy," has not been recorded in the MAGAZINE. She died last Nov. 28 in the Kensington Gardens Nursing Home, Kensington, Md., where she had lived for five years.
Sadie (Mrs. Philip H.) Winchester spent February in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with her sister. Sadie states positively that she will be with us in Hanover. Herbert Rogers has the distinction of being the only living '99er with an April birthday, the 29th. Eva (Mrs. Guy E.)Speare remembers Father Speare's account of filling his wagon with furniture, a stove, and firewood and driving Guy, Bones Woodward and either John DuBois or Charlie Cushman to Hanover in the fall of 1895. She adds that Ernest Silver described his first college bed as having for its foundation a door set on two boxes.
Elmer Woodman's daughter, Ellen Doll of West Virginia, says that on his winter walks he still uses his Dartmouth cane, with Indian head handle and hand-carved names of classmates. He received a red ribbon last August at the regional fair in Rolla for one of the many rugs he began making after his official retirement from teaching. Bring the cane to Hanover in June, Elmer. Two near misses by Rodney and Margaret Sanborn: they flew to Miami Shores just too soon to be able to accept Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller's '30 invitation to his Inaugural Ball; and their flight a little west of Cape Canaveral came near giving them a glimpse of a rocket launching.
Keep us up to date on your travel plans for summer, - and have you answered the Ninety-Nine Summons to the Sixtieth? There is no unbreakable deadline, but it will help to hear soon. What we want is YOU!!
Secretary, Newbury Rd., Bradford, N. H.
Class Agent, 11 Park View Drive, Worcester 5, Mass.
