1918

We wish to thank Tom Bryant and his assistants for the outstanding work they did in raising $23,138.77 for the class for the Alumni Fund. This was 110% of our class dollar objective and 105% participation index. These results are certainly beyond the fondest expectations of many of us. I am sure we express the sentiment of the class when we extend our admiration for a splendid performance. We are indeed fortunate to have such a devoted team working for the Alumni Fund.

We were able to glean the following news lately: Ed and Kathy Ferguson sailed on the Caronia the last part of April on an extended trip to Italy, Morocco, Greece, Yugoslavia, French Riviera, Spain, Portugal, and London. They lived aboard the Caronia during their trip until they arrived in London, where they stayed for several days and then returned home on the Queen Mary, arriving June 11.

The Stub Stanley's took about a month's trip to the West Coast going via Banff and Lake Louise on their way to San Francisco. On their return they visited several of the National Parks.

Dick and Edith Cooley have been working as hard as ever. They now have stores in Concord and Marblehead, Mass. Edith spends two- or three days a week in their new Concord store. Dick is still on the board of governors at the Wellesley Country Club. He was chairman of the club's greens committee during the period when the club added nine holes to their golf course. You can well imagine how much of Dick's time this took. They are both very interested in bowling and curling teams. Edith is in great demand as an after-dinner speaker, her topic is "Know Your Chinaware." She is one of the outstanding china connoisseurs in all New England.

Don Davis is now retired, lives in New Hampshire and has joined Jake Bingham as a member of the New Hampshire legislature. Doc and Catherine Angell have spent the summer commuting between Needham and Randolph, N. H., where their son Norman now lives in a beautiful old home.

The Harvey Hoods' daughter Barbara who was married to Harry Carpenter last June, is returning from the Philippines about the first of October. They have been traveling ever since their wedding. Libby Hood graduated from Wellesley this spring with honors in English Literature. She is now writing a novel.

George Stoddard has had the honor of having Dartmouth invite him to display his watercolor paintings in Hopkins Center. His watercolors will be on display for three weeks during September and October. As Hopkins Center is booked up for at least two years in advance, this is a singular honor which the College has extended to him.

Hort Chandler has cut his work-week with the New England Gas and Electric Company down to three days. He is now taking advantage of his days off to do many of the things that he and Elizabeth had planned to accomplish after retirement. Hort saw Ed Butts while in San Francisco last May. Eddie and Marjorie are moving Nov. 1 to an apartment house in Palo Alto.

Amos Blandin's daughter, Joanna, was married to Thomas Elliot Noyes on June 30. The ceremony was held in the Memorial Chapel of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth and the reception in Alumni Hall at Hopkins Center. Thomas Noyes is now attending Dartmouth College after serving with the United States Army in Japan.

Ken Jones ran the 50th reunion of his high school class at Melrose this spring. He is particularly pleased that a graduate of the Melrose High School was awarded the first scholarship of $1,000 from the scholarship fund at Dartmouth established by Chuck Hilliker.

Mike McDonough was recently written up in the Melrose Free Press for the outstanding work he has done in developing and then running the Little League in Melrose.

We have recently seen a letter from AlSibbernsen. He writes that it has been a beautiful summer in Nebraska. His son Albert Jr. was thrown from a horse on Decoration Day and broke his ankle, which has incapacitated him for most of the summer. As a result, Al has been extremely busy pinchhitting for Al Jr., who now has taken over the running of their ranch. He writes that Cort and Marian Horr drove over to visit them recently.

We have a clipping from the Nebraska News announcing that the State of Nebraska has just become the owner of the site of Old Fort Atkinson (1819-1827) which was once the headquarters of the nation's largest military garrison. The Fort Atkinson Foundation. of which Al is president, raised $39,000. The foundation and the state each paid $37,500 for the land which is a 144-cre site. Al has been working with this foundation raising funds for over two years.

Stan Jones has recently seen Tom andMary Campbell who had just returned from Rome, London, and Vienna. Dan Shea has been visiting the Joneses in Westhaven, N. Y.

Les Granger was Commencement speaker at Oswego State University on June 9. The Watertown, N. Y., Times on May 15 carried a very flattering article about Les. He is a trustee of Hampton Institute, a member of the New York school of social work, advisory council and the board of overseers of Florence Heller graduate school at Brandeis University. Les holds honorary degrees in humane letters and law from Dartmouth, Columbia, Oberlin, and Virginia State. The class and college are indeed fortunate to have such a distinguished member.

With deep sorrow we announce the death of Francis Clarke Hardie who passed away at the Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago on Sunday, August 25. He had gone to the hospital for a check up which resulted in surgery from which he did not recover. He was buried on August 28 in the family lot in the Waukegan Cemetery, following services at the Peterson Funeral Home of Waukegan. We have lost a loved classmate who loved Dartmouth dearly.

Bill Montgomery reports that only 55 classmates out of approximately 300 have made reservations for our 46th reunion this coming June. If any members of the class have movies of class events, Bill would like to have them write him giving the size of the film and the approximate length. He is planning to run movies taken of past reunions and other important class events at the 46th Reunion.

If the members of the class would be interested in coming to dinner at the Brae Burn Country Club which would be held at approximately 6:30 p.m. after the Harvard game, I would be glad to arrange for it. Brae Burn is about 3½ miles from Soldiers Field Stadium. It can be reached either via route 16 or via Commonwealth Ave., which runs all the way from Boston to Auburndale, where it connects with route 128 and the Massachusetts Turnpike.

There are also three double and one single rooms with baths and three double rooms without baths available at Brae Burn from Oct. 25 through Oct. 27 for classmates on a "first come, first serve" basis. If you are interested in either the dinner or in making reservations to stay at Brae Burn, please let me know as soon as possible.

Leo Ungar '20 (l) in the lovely Japanesegarden of Shiro Akahoshi '20 whom hevisited in Fujisawa City when Leo andhis wife took a trip around the world.

Secretary, 67 Annawam Rd., Waban, Mass.

Treasurer, Brush Island, Darien, Conn.