1903

You all know of Dr. Hopkins' death, August 13, at Manset, his summer home near Southwest Harbor, Me. He was 86 years old. We of 1903 were in college the last two years of his college life. He graduated in 1901. The heartfelt sympathy of the class goes out to the family of this "alltime leader of the Dartmouth he loved and so largely created."

These October notes mark the beginning of my third year as your secretary. By and large these last two years have been interesting, enjoyable and much worth while. Old friendships, some almost forgotten in the last more than 60 years, have been revived; new friendships have been formed. The hard part of the job is the duty of telling you with increasing frequency of those of the class who have left us. Since our 60th reunion in June of '63, six more of our members have gone; George Gage, Dr. Arthur Noyes, Alton Pratt, John McElroy, David Bradley and (only notified in 1964) Dr. Abdian in 1961.

Pleasanter news to start the year off includes the 50th Anniversary of the marriage of Ned and Charlotte Kenerson, July 10 at Winchester, Mass. We all wish that many more years of continued happy togetherness may be their lot.

Pray Wadham telephoned me the other evening; it is a very lovely custom of his. He is making as successful a class treasurer as he did a secretary. Just yesterday a note from Ernest Brown told of their sojourn at their summer home in Grafton, N.H., and also of the visit there by Hamlin Bennett. You will remember from the June '63 news letter, Hamlin had only recently returned home from a two-month battle at the Lynn Hospital. We are glad that he is now able to get out and around and visit his old friends.

One delightful side reward of this year's Alumni Fund (You have my Special Report of the Fund dated Aug. 19, last.) has been the receipt of several notes from the class and also and especially from some of the widows and relatives of those gone but not forgotten. A letter from Herb Follett, at age 83, says he is working seven hours a day and enjoying almost every minute of it "after I retire maybe I will begin to make news and then I'll tell you all about it." - Another good friend wrote "You should feel happy and more than content with your achievement as class shepherd and beggar — an honorable profession which many good Dartmouth men have followed for years." The writer has been one of the more successful men for Dartmouth in this honorable profession" and speaks as one who knows, which makes his comment that of an expert and extremely heart warming.

You have or will shortly receive a new class list as at Aug. 15, 1964. Sorry that I had to delete David Bradley's name even before the list could be sent to Hanover for distribution. David, like most of you folks, was not too frequent a correspondent, but he was a mighty good Dartmouth and 1903 man. We will miss him.

Recently I noticed a quote from Rube Goldberg, creater of "Boob McNutt" and 1948 Pulitzer Prize winner for Editorial Cartooning, announcing his retirement after 59 years as a cartoonist. In part, he says "I find now that I start to count off the 80s, I cannot stay mad long enough to rouse the public from its customary state of apathy." Maybe he has hit on the secret of a happy and successful membership in the 80 years of age group.

A good fall and comfortable winter for you all.

Secretary, 13 Vermont Ave. Binghamton, N.Y.

Treasurer, 1822 Willow Rd., Cedar Village Camp Hill, Pa.