1911

With our Fiftieth Reunion behind us you will find this class notes section briefer, leaving to Pat Partridge and the "Leven Up," items described by the MAGAZINE editor as "chit-chat, letters and long items for which the MAGAZINE column does not have room." If sometimes you think this column is a bit scant, don't blame us or the editor, but the fact that the alumni body has got too big for its breeches.

You will find interesting details of Reunion in Pat's next outburst but it should be stated here that it was generally considered a success if the many letters received from the participants, during the summer, may be taken as criterion. Also this opportunity is taken by the secretary to express his thanks and appreciation to all those whose letters should have been acknowledged but were not.

Our class is grateful for the loyal participation of those wives whose husbands are no longer with us. Their attitude toward us is happily expressed in this letter received following Reunion. "We, the undersigned, wish to record our grateful appreciation for the generous hospitality extended to us as guests of 1911 at its FIRST FIFTIETH. There is of course no more wonderful class or college anywhere, but we have fresh evidence of this in the warm and thoughtful welcome given us by our husbands' classmates. It has made our returning such a happy experience. Some of us were in Hanover, some at Lake Morey, but we all join in gratitude for the opportunity so graciously afforded us to renew the ties which forever bind us and our loved ones to Dartmouth and to 1911." Ruth H. Backus, Mildred Rollins, Ruth B. Hastings, Ruth D. Mathes, Marian S. Agry, Inez P. Adams, Vera P. Briggs, Lillian F. Cooper.

The next events scheduled for the class are the Boston dinner before the Harvard game and our usual June house-party at the Mountain View in Whitefield. The Boston dinner will be at the University Club, Fnevening, October 27 and we will be in the company of contemporary classes as usual, and also as usual probably will out-number them. The precise dates for Whitefield have not been set but will be the three days before the regular opening around June 20. There will be more details on this subject in the next issue, but. meanwhile make note of these dates.

This month's column might well be dedicated to those three dedicated men who conducted that fine service in remembrance of our departed classmates at Reunion. BobBarstow was honored at the annual meeting of the Alumni Association of the Hartford Theological Seminary in June when its president conferred its 1961 Citation or Merit upon him, "Son of the Church and Minister Extraordinary" Bob was president of the Seminary 1930-44, leaving to direct Protestent cooperative relief activities of U. S. churches after World War 11. In 1959 he retired from the staff of the National Council of Churches, where he was in charge of American union churches abroad. He is currently in demand as Interim Minister. He now is at Chappaqua, N. Y. Previously he was at Danbury and then Waterbury, Conn.

Gabe Farrell, director-emeritus of Perkins Institute for the Blind, was among seven graduates of Episcopal Theological School awarded honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees at the school's 96th commencement. Gabe is permanent chairman for the blind at the United Nations, and is the author of the book, "The Story of Blindness." He is still active, being assistant to the dean at the Theological School, and in his home town of Rochester, Mass., he is the much respected town moderator.

The third member of this triumvirate is the Rev. C. Merton Wilson. He was honored at a tea given by former parishoners and by present congregation members upon the completion of his 35th year as rector of the All Saints' Church in Baldwin, Long Island. Mert is the oldest active priest in the Brooklyn-Long Island diocese and has remained with his church longer than any other diocesan clergyman. He was presented gifts from five church groups. Joining the guests were a brother, a sister, a niece, and two of his five children. His other three children are married and living in California. Having made the building of the parish of All Saints' Church his life's work he is going to retire at the end of next year.

Having delivered his excellent oration at our Fiftieth and seen his son Marshall '44 married to Vallory Shepard, Ken Clark put himself and wife Elizabeth aboard the "S.S. Mariposa" of the Matson Line on August 21 for a trip to New Zealand and Australia. They expect to return early in October.

In telling of his new location in the new office of the Travellers Insurance Company, 3600 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, GerryBarnes says "It was good to see so many of the old gang, so from now on I'll be back at least every 25 years."

Some other changed addresses are: Capt. Lawrence A. Odlin, 990 Ellington Lane, Pasadena: Charles C. Warren, 192 East 75th St., Apt. 2-D, New York 17, N. Y.; BenjaminS. Livingston, 945 - 5th Ave., New York 21, N. Y. (Residence); Frederick A. A.McLaughlin, Apt. 2, 36 Sherman Ave., Glens Falls, N. Y.; Arthur H. Witte, 131 McKinley Ave., New Haven, Conn.

So far as our records show, the honor of having the first 1911 grandson in Dartmouth goes to Marjorie Pierce, Hub's widow. The boy's name is Deane Mosher. He is also a nephew of Bob Searles '42, Marjorie's son-in-law.

Finally there should be a word of congratulation and appreciation to Josh Clark, aided and abetted by wife Polly for his accomplishment as 1911's leader in the Alumni Fund. In participation, meaning the percentage of givers to living members, our class leads all others graduating after us. Going back to the class of 1900 there are but five that have done as well.

Taking part in the Commecenment procession this June were members of the50-year class of 1911. Shown in frontare Red McLaughlin (l) who returnedfor his first reunion in fifty years, andDick Stevens (r), from Grafton, Mass.

1912 Class Officers who returned forClass Officers Weekend in May were nodoubt talking about their approaching50th Reunion. The group included (l tor) Henry Van Dyne, bequest chairman,Eddie Luitweiler, class agent, LymeArmes newsletter editor, Garry Garrison,secretary, and Fletch Clark, treasurer.

Secretary, Box 171, Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, Seaside Ave., Saco, Me.