1894

Hats off to the youngest living member of our Class! He is none other than Philip Sanford Marden who spoke of his contribution of last month's column as "not much of a news letter." If this was "not much" what could he not do if he tried! Thank you, Phil, very very much. One can't help adding a reference to Phil's summum bonum in 1944 when he published a book containing sketches of every graduate and non-graduate of '94.

"Nine old men" can no longer be applied to '94, as will be seen from a look at In Memoriam. However, that appellation lasted about four months and perhaps was worth a reference.

Fred Bushee's absence from our Reunions and Round-ups was due in good part to the way he spent his summers, as is pointed out in the sketch of him elsewhere. While he apparently has been able to communicate with us in late years only through others that communication has made entirely clear his continued interest in the Class. For example, this word from his nurse:

"Dr. Bushee received your birthday message. X can't possibly tell you how impressed and pleased he was with the contents. He wants you to know, above all else, he's still very interested in the Class news."

In the May column Phil indicated what were going to be the high points in the trip which the secretary and his wife were to take through Florida. All the expected high points were covered. The secretary's "Three Days With Eddie Grover" will be reported in a separate communication. Suffice it to say here that Eddie is well enough to get a great deal of enjoyment out of life. He is fortunate in having his daughter at home to be his caretaker and secretary, and in having his sister Anne as a companion. Living on Camellia Avenue (with Grover Street a block away) at the head of the Mead Botanical Garden, which is his "baby," and watching Rollins College develop from the high point to which he and President Holt brought it, and overseeing his own garden which he exhibits with fond pride, justly - what more could a man nearing his ninetieth birthday (June 4) want!

The first full day of the trip was happily broken by luncheon in the home of Kent and Kathleen Knowlton in Nutley, N. J. One of their daughters is living with them and the other is but a few blocks away. They have a sightly and sunny location on the side of a hill and seem fully able to enjoy it, especially with the friends they have made in Nutley.

Lillian Lewis is living in Darlington, S. C., in the house of her girlhood, marriage, and of Aubrey's retirement years. As we drove up the street Mrs. Merrill said: "This is an attractive yard (with daffodils in bloom), it would be nice to stay here," - and 10, it was the Lewis home, with much more of a garden in the rear! We spent a Saturday night with her, staying through church on Sunday, and being joined at Sunday dinner by three of her near of kin.

At Stuart, Fla., we called on the older son of Elmer Tenney. His life has been spent mainly in the Department of State of the United States. Who's Who in America discloses how varied and distinguished this service has been. He has three boys, the youngest apparently destined for Dartmouth. While near the coast his home has the particular attractiveness of an inland situation on a river up and down which ply quiet watercraft in place of speeding automobiles. A choice place for retirement, indeed!

The last of the four '94 stops was with Mary Welton at Veto Beach. Her home is in what Nettie Ames considers to be "the most desirable section of Vero Beach." Arriving in the afternoon, we spent until noon the next day. During the morning Mary drove us across the Indian River and gave us a very good idea generally of that community, including a pilgrimage to the home where Nettie and Billy Ames have spent many happy years. We were sorry to miss Nettie who had returned north about the middle of March.

It was indeed a "Roving Round-up" the flavor of which it is entirely impossible to reproduce in print.

While in Florida word came from ArthurStone of Anne's accident on March 22, when through a misstep coming out of the postoffice she fell and broke her hip. She was in the Mary Fletcher Hospital five weeks but now is convalescing satisfactorily at home.

Change of address. Mrs. John E. Cassin will now be reached at Wells, Vt., which prompts this writer to say that Phil Marden's column in May would have been 100 per cent in value if he had done nothing else than to tell us how the classmate whom we called "Bar" Cassin came also to be called "King" Cassin.

Bill Ham '07, oldest alumnus in the Bridgeport, Conn., area, was presented with a suitably inscribed tray at the April meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Bridgeport. Stan Curtis '24 (r) is shown making the presentation. Charles A. C. Thomas '10 looks on.

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass.

Class Agent, 18 Center St., Nutley, N. J.