1899

The '99 family circle lost another member January 28. Frances Marie (Mrs. George J.) Prescott died at the Maiden, Mass., hospital. She leaves a son Allen, M.I.T. '31, of Medford, two granddaughters, and a sister Ida (Mrs. Morton E. Cummings) also of Maiden. More details later, we hope. George and Frances were married April 11, 1905, after he became purchasing agent for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.; he died November 18, 1919. He came from Meredith, prepared at New Hampton Institute, was a member of Tri Rap, and class president in the spring of '98.

We are grateful to Mrs. Bertha W. Kellogg of Springfield for further information about her sister Elsie (Mrs. Ralph W.Payne). Elsie was born December 28, 1883, in Montague, Mass., one of a family of seven, Bertha being now the sole survivor. After graduating from Greenfield, Mass., high school Elsie attended Abbott Academy, Andover. She was an active member of the Greenfield Second Congregational Church, the Women's Club and the Drama Club. She delighted in doing things for others, and after Ralph's death frequently volunteered as a Gray Lady of the Red Cross at the Franklin County Public Hospital. A heart attack, last May sent her to this hospital, where she died July so. Services at the Congregational Church were conducted by Dr. Kenneth R. Henley as they had been for Ralph in 1948. And she is buried beside Ralph in the Green River Cemetery.

Hawley Chase, our enterprising Newport, N. H., classmate, filed papers in January as a delegate "favorable to Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey." This action, of course, did not require permission from the "candidate," and we do not happen to know whether the Senator is as favorable to Hawley as Hawley is to him. Anyway "Hawley for Humphrey" is a good battle cry. By the time you are reading this, the March 8 primary will likely have pronounced the verdict.

Other Dartmouth readers besides '99ers may have passing interest in the neck-and-neck race between living descendants of "Doc" Arthur Norton and "Bill" ArthurWiggin. As our December newsletter reported: Doc's clan was leading Bill's 33 to 32. Then the Wigginites speeded up production and for a breath-taking moment led 34 to 33. But a new great-grandson born to Pioneer Doc's line has knotted Progenitor Bill's total with a 34 to 34! Unlike the famous 33 to 33 football tie between Dartmouth and Yale, however, this later event is a serial, and where it will end,—nobody knows!

In this first quarter of 1960 our surviving classmates' birthdays fall in pairs: Rodney Sanborn and John Ash in January; K. Beal and Paul Osgood in February; and Ed Skinner and Louis Benezet in March. All six gave their first lusty "Wah-Hoo-Wahs" in the 1870's as Dartmouth entered her second century, and they are now braced for the stirring 1960's as the College sets her sights on that Two Hundredth Anniversary. Major General Ash leads us all with his scoreboard posting "89." (Anybody know of a February 29 birthday in the Class Family?)

We can't think of a new way to say it,—but remember that the old '99 Round-Up tradition has been restored in this new age of the 60's to its Boston homestead, the University Club, at noon, Saturday, May 21.

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