1904
George Washington never saw Florida. We don't have to hunt for the place he slept in down here. According to Justin Smith - George was born February 22, 1732. This month we celebrate his birthday. He never went to Dartmouth. Eleazar Wheelock graduated from Yale a year after Washington was born. He founded Dartmouth College in 1769. Some of her early graduates served in the Revolutionary War and aided Washington in winning independence from England. Thus does Dartmouth come within the sacred fold of the Ivy League. A Salute to George -
While your secretary is in an historic frame of mind he wonders how many of the bottle-scarred veterans of 1904, who for fifty years have gathered at the tomb of Eleazer, just at midnight by the Dartmouth Clock, during our reunions and round-ups, have ever been able to translate the Latin inscription on the slab which covers him. With five years of Latin and a trot, your secretary has been able to translate it for you. Here it is:
"By the Gospel he subdued the ferocity of the savages And to the civilized he opened new paths of science.
Traveler - Go if you can and deserve the sublime reward of such merit." A Salute to Eleazar.
The Christmas season always brings to the secretary a harvest of greetings from classmates and from our girls too. Thank you, dear folks. Sally and I have greatly appreciated your kind remembrances.
Child Lewis out in Helena, Mont., writes - forty below zero - Beck says 80 degrees above in Vero Beach. Child asks — Want to swap? No Sirree.
Roscoe and Margaret Smith spending the winter in Bellingham, Wash., and the Walkers in Tucson, Ariz.
Lester Gibson from Palo Alto, Calif., on December 9 celebrated the arrival of their first great-grandchild: a daughter - Congratulations.
Two below up in St. Paul where BruceSanborn lives. Bruce sent Sally and the secretary a nice Christmas present - Thanks, former neighbor in Lenox.
Connie Pratt - the daughter of our DonLogan - sent a nice note from her home in New Jersey. Connie was born Christmas Day, 1918. Don and Beck celebrated the event at the Cafe de la Paix in Paris, later we were joined by Captain Hinman and we sent a cable to President Hopkins, saying - "We are fighting to make Hanover a safe place to hold reunions in."
Sick call - sorry to tell you - PenMower has been ill and hospitalized in New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. His home address is 191 Clyde Street, Brookline, Mass. - send him a card. Learned our ex-president Lin Durgin has had a shock and has for several months been unable to get around. A note please to Lin - 35 Ware Street, Lewiston, Me.
Squid, digging potatoes, fell in the hole, dislocated his shoulder - both potatoes and Squid were rescued - and our unexcelled class agent has eaten the potatoes and is doing fine. The rest of our bottle-scarred veterans doing so-so.
Classmates will be shocked and grieved to learn of the death of our classmate, "Mose" Withey, on Dec. 11, 1961, of a heart attack. He was one of our most distinguished members and one most loyal to Class and College. Your Secretary wishes you would turn to your 50th reunion report for the full and intimate life of this man: In college - member of Chi Phi, graduated Phi Beta Kappa - with 1904 - and from Thayer School — 1905. Taught a year at Dartmouth and then for over fifty years - Instructor - Professor (and Dean Emeritus) at the University of Wisconsin. Recipient of many honors in the field of Engineering. Member of many engineering societies. Born Oct. 25, 1882, fatherless at three. In 1907 married lola M. Harker - devoted husband for 57 years - father of three daughters and two sons — grandfather of sixteen and great-grandfather of six children. With all the honors Mose received from many sources his tribute to his family for his success in life - to those who knew him best - and loved him most — is typical of the man. "I would be sorely remiss if I did not mention the outpouring of boundless energy and self-sacrifice of a loving mother - the inspiration and confidence of a fine mother-in-law, and the devotion of a splendid wife who has been a true partner during a half century of delightful companionship."
Your Secretary has expressed to Mrs. Withey and the family our sincere respect and the great affection in which Mose was held by his classmates. May the Great Master have in his loving care and keeping the wonderful family Mose loved so much. His obituary appears in another section of this or a subsequent MAGAZINE.
To any of you boys, "just settin and thinkin," cracker language, your Secretary suggests you go to your library and get the book "Our Unknown Ex-President." It's a portrait of Herbert Hoover by Eugene Lyons. You will be a better American after you have read it and perhaps become a Republican.
Cheerio.
Secretary, 1766 42nd Ave., Vero Beach, Fla. Telephone Jo 7-2046
Treasurer, Box 406, Morristown, N. J
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