1907

Your class secretary takes this opportunity to thank George Grebenstein for taking on the secretarial duties for three months, and for the outstanding quality of his class news items.

'07 men, mostly New Englanders, are planning to return to Dartmouth for an informal reunion as they have for many years. They will join up with '09 men, also mostly from New England. These two groups will presumably go their own ways as they may choose to do or they will join up for Jack Chi Ids' music and probably for a joint dinner. In any case, they will have fun and friendships between the two class groups Will be further cemented. Greb, as heretofore will organize '07's contribution to the joint reunion, and who can do it better?

It seems to your secretary that those who read these notes will be interested in Jim O'Neill's interests and activities in his eightieth year. His eighty-first year will begin on December 19. All will recall that Jim was in college and after graduation an orator and a teacher. Today he is an author and from time to time a'public speaker. Jim is the author of eighteen books, twelve of them in the field of speech and is currently at work on number nineteen. He finds that his current work is about as good as it was 45 years ago. He advises lots of work for the somewhat mature people who retire - that is his prescription.

Many '07 men and wives are visiting Florida each winter. In other years the Anna Maria group has been mentioned in these columns. This year the regulars were present: Bob Kenyon and his wife, Don and Mrs.Houghton, Allan Brown and his wife, and Leon Sprague. Not far from Anna Maria Bishop Niles and his wife spent a month at the Gulf and Bay Club, near Sarasota, and this year the Dick Lanes enjoyed a month there also. Tod Plummer and his wife Ruth spent six weeks at Palm Beach Shores and also visited Bob Wallace '06 at his new home at Deerfield Beach, Fla.

Arthur Leavitt and his wife live in Fairfax, Va. They have four children, three in the forties bracket -and a younger child who will soon attain that age bracket. Their oldest grandson, now seventeen and a half, will enter college this fall and their oldest granddaughter has one more year of high school.

Two Portland. Me., classmates have new addresses: Harold D. Oliphant's present address is 8 Drew Road, South Portland, Me.; Arthur G. Spear's new address is 43 Maine Avenue, Portland, Me. Bob Kenyon has returned from Florida and his present address is R.F.D. 3, Concord, N. H.

It is a pleasure to report that Bill Grimes, though bed-ridden, is in better health than a year ago.

A letter has just been received (on May 2, '61) from Tyler Sprague, son of Loyal TylerSprague '07, reporting his father's death on January 4, 1960. He had suffered poor health for several years and had moved from his Chicago home to his son's home in Bartonville, Ill. He lived there until he died. He was born on July 27, 1884 in Fayette, Ill. He left Dartmouth at the end of the first year and became a member of Gardes, Sprague and Co., in Peoria, Ill.

In 1906 he married Victoria Hunt and there were two children, Loyal Tyler Sprague III and Victoria Adelaide. Their mother died in 1917, and in 1939 he married Maria Louise White of Chicago.

Secretary, 8 West Hill Place Boston 14, Mass.

Class Agent, Kennebunk, Me.