1899

There have been many long, happy marriages in '99, but here is the first one that has lasted 60 years. Montie and MarthaFuller were united December 31, 1902. Their four children had hoped to arrange a real celebration. Daughters Marcia from St. Petersburg and Miriam from California spent Christmas with them, and sons Mark and Melville both had made plans. But neither parent felt equal to standing in a reception line, or talking with dozens of even intimate friends. In fact, right after Christmas Montie had spent three days in a hospital for a check-up, though with no alarming results. Then came the blizzard, and folks couldn't have come anyway. But the family came in relays from four states, and numerous cards from near and far, including those from Montie's Dartmouth classmates made celebration enough. As one card expressed it: "You have been more than mere friends, you have both been an inspiration to us all, faithful guidelights through dark and difficult places. In your simple faith and living you have tried to lead us to the One Divine Light of the World."

Now to the other end of '99's life calendar. Melville and Pauline Fuller's Jeannie is a freshman at the University of N. H., Class of '66. At Princeton, Roger and Jane Barney's son Jim is in '66. At Harvard MauriceDickey's grandson, Maurice Dickey Drysdale, also is a '66er. And at Dartmouth in the Class of '66 are two other '99 grandsons: Joel Peter Benezet, son of Louis B. '36 and grandson of our Benny, and Charles Henry Donahue, son of Jack D. '35 and grandson of our Donny. Joel is at 306 Hitchcock (once his father's dorm); his chief scholastic interest is "Government," and his chief extracurricular activity is rowing. Charlie is at 103 A Bissell; he's interested in "Philosophy," and his activities are in the Outing Club and NROTC. How heartily all senior '99ers hail all these junior '99ers!

But there's a "tail to this kite!" A Dartmouth graduate, Class of Eighteen Hundred Sixty-Six was Henry Appleton Kendall. He was the father of Paul Osgood's wife Marcella. He lived to be almost 98, spending his later years with Marcella and Paul. He was a versatile man, giving up business at 50 for literary work, being a columnist for the Boston "Transcript" and "Herald," writing poetry, and being secretary for his class. Among his relatives were six other Dartmouth men including our own Greek prof, Charlie D. Adams. A salute to you, Paul, this February 26 on your eighty-fifth birthday, and to you, Marcella, yourself a true daughter of Old Dartmouth. And there's one more tail to this kite, - turn '66 upside down and you see '99!

We must close this column with overtones of sadness. Three deaths: (1) Last May, Col. Warwick Lewis Doll, Charleston, W. Va., husband of Ellen Frances, daughter of Leon and Mabel Woodman. "Wick" was a veteran of World War 11. Intelligence officer of Engineers Combat Group 1944, and an engineer for U.S. Geological Survey both before and after the war. And at home a most earnest church worker. (2) November 26, Elizabeth Redden Rowe, widow of our BobbyRowe. She came to '99's 62nd with Bobby's one surviving son Russell and his wife Evelyn. She is survived by a sister, a nephew, and nieces, and by the widespread memory of her extraordinary friendliness. (3) December 8, suddenly - Katherine ("Katie") Whittier Kennedy, daughter of Tom and Elisabeth Whittier, wife of John Cullen Kennedy, and mother of three (John, Thomas, Andrew) of Tom's thirteen grandsons. Besides her mother, three sisters survive: Mrs. (Lois) Arthur Batten, Mrs. (Margaret) J. Benedict Roache, Mrs. (Virginia) Thomas A. Warthin. Katie was a gifted woman, with a B.S. from Middlebury, an M.S. in Bacteriology from University of Michigan, and a record of service in Washington at the Army Medical Library and in the General Services Administration, With equal skill and enthusiasm she taught Sunday School at the Grosse Pointe Presbyterian Church, or substituted as a high school science teacher, did silver work, refinished antique furniture, or headed up neighborhood drives for charity, or mothered Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts as devotedly as she mothered her own sons.

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