1900

Once more the grim reaper has struck down two of our number. Like the old soldiers viewing the thinning ranks of a once large and vital company, so we of 1900 must feel the pangs of regret and sadness at the thinning ranks of our fellowship. Maurice P. McKay passed away quite suddenly at age 86 in Yonkers, N. Y., on November 15, 1962. The facts in regard to the cause of his death and of the funeral service is not known to us. All the information we have is contained in a very brief obituary notice which appeared in the Webster, N. Y., Herald under date of Nov. 29, 1962. At the end of his freshman year at Dartmouth, Maurice transferred to the College of Engineering, Cornell University, and received the degree of M.E. in 1901. His active life was spent in the New York area, much of the time connected with the traction and subway lines in that city and Brooklyn. He always retained an interest in 1900, and for many years was a faithful and regular contributor to our class fund.

Edmund J. Jonakowski died after a brief illness at the Sarasota Memorial Hospital on Nov. 27, 1962. His was indeed a pathetic case. For a number of years he was almost totally blind, and during his last few months he had great difficulty in communicating his thoughts to others. Because of these afflictions he was very much shut up within himself. We certainly would not wish him back. An obituary appears in another column of this or a subsequent issue of the MAGAZINE.

Hopkins Center is proving a real and challenging asset to the Hanover community. Even now many community events are finding a place within its ample facilities. Warner Bentley along with the "old grad" must feel something of the elation implied in Webster's glowing words on the occasion of the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument in 1825: "Venerable men! You have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day."

Ben Prescott and Arthur Wallace at age 83 and 85 respectively, despite the atrocious weather on several occasions, attended six of the successful - from the Dartmouth angle - football games last fall. On one unforgettable day, when rain came down in torrents, they sat through the game in Memorial Stadium when younger men, with less courage and just possibly more sense, holed up at the Hanover Inn or elsewhere about town. I am sure that by their loyalty, interest, and enthusiasm they must have made a real contribution to the phenomenal success of Capt. Billy King and Co. in bringing to Dartmouth its first undefeated and untied football season in 37 years.

Arthur Wallace was present for a portion of the exercises connected with the inauguration of Hopkins Center in November, and again in December at the dedication of the new medical auditorium.

The Hodgkins families do get around. Virginia, daughter of Lem Hodgkins, in a letter to the trustee of our class fund, says that she and her husband after summering in Maine took five weeks to drive back to Texas via California. Her sister, Ruth, joined them in California, and then drove back with them to San Antonio. Rounds of golf were enjoyed in Phoenix, Ariz. Virginia and her husband were just about well settled in at home when they realized that soon they would have to search out their warm clothes in preparation for a trip back East to join in the festivities and hullabaloo of a Christmas in Worcester.

Betty Redington, widow of Paul Redington, enjoys a rather active life for one of her years in La Jolla, Calif. A letter written last fall expressed the hope that she might be able to make the long trek from California to Norfolk, Va., to spend the Christmas season with her daughter, Mary Ann, and also to renew contacts with friends in Falls Church, Va., where she and Paul lived for some years after Paul's retirement from the forestry service. Let us hope she made it. Mary Ann's husband, Col. Church, is eligible for retirement in 1963, and Betty ardently hopes that they may choose to locate near her in southern California.

Secretary, Box 714, Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 20 Chapel St., Brookline 46, Mass.