1899

On August 6 our membership was reduced to eighteen by the sudden death of Albert Leet Galusha. Our deep sympathy goes to his wife Isabel, to his son Ranney, his daughter Ruth, and to their families. A memorial will appear in this or a subsequent issue.

Another loss: Helen Osgood Ruggles (Mrs. Willis B. Hodgkins) suffered a stroke on a vacation in Young, Ariz.; she lapsed into a coma, died two days later, August 3, in St. Lukes Hospital, Phoenix. She was born in Hanover, January 28, 1877, daughter of Professor Edward Rush Ruggles, Class of 1859, on the Dartmouth faculty from 1864 until his death in 1897. In our day he was Chandler Professor of German. Helen had three brothers: Daniel B. '90 (son, Daniel B. Jr. '21 and grandson, Daniel B. 3rd '46); Edward F. '94; and Arthur H. '02, noted Harvard medical graduate who died last January, father of Arthur H. Jr. '37. Helen also had a sister Mabel, who died soon after 1900, and whose daughter, now Charlotte Eaton, Helen always regarded as her own.

Helen Ruggles' marriage to Willis Hodgkins, who died in 1940, and whose sister is Helen (Mrs. Warren C.) Kendall, occurred on August 15, 1901. In 1918 they moved from Ballardvale, Mass., to Phoenix with their four children. Three still live in or near Phoenix: Barbara (now Mrs. John Miller Williams), two of her brothers, William Henry and Richard Bradlee. The other brother, however, Edward Ruggles Hodgkins, lives in Worcester, Mass.; "Ted" is an insurance executive, and he and his wife Ruthe are well known in '99 circles.

Helen Hodgkins was active all her life, driving her car daily until her last short illness. Deeply interested in people as well as in her own large family she maintained lively contact with many friends throughout the years. She never lost her love for Hanover as her birthplace and girlhood home. In accordance with her wish her ashes will be interred in the Ruggles family plot in Hanover Cemetery this fall. Survivors besides the four children include one grandson and four great-grandchildren.

The May 20 Class Round-Up at the University Club in Boston was our 61st. There were 35 present, representing eighteen different families, although only five classmates themselves made it: Tim Lynch and EdSkinner from Massachusetts, Rodney Sanborn and K. Beal (with May) from New Hampshire, and Warren Kendall on a fiveday jaunt from Florida. Full details of attendance and sociability appeared in the summer newsletter. Nineteen of those present were newcomers at a round-up.

In 1962 the Executive Committee is thinking seriously of holding the affair on the third Saturday of July instead of May, and at the New Hampshire Highway Hotel in Concord. N. H., instead of in Boston. We hope that we may thus gear in with the convenience of summer vacationers in New England, and of some others who can less easily get to Boston.

The summer newsletter contained various items of interest to others than '99ers. Some of these we'll share in later columns with Dartmouth readers in general.

Of our seventeen classmates rooming at any time in Wentworth Hall, Leon "Fod"Martin is now the only survivor. Al Galusha, Fod's roommate for three years, was himself the last survivor of the Class football team in the fall of '96.

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