1920

All Dartmouth is saddened by the passing of President Hopkins and our Class especially because "Hoppy" has always been one of us, as he wrote in a letter to be read at the Class Reunion: "I repeat at this time what I have said before in regard to my deep appreciation for what I hold a very real honor, in having been made an honorary member of the Class (1920). I repeat also what I have said before in my deep sense of obligation to the Class which made its entrance into Dartmouth life coincident with my re-entry. The memories are all very precious to me." He regretted he was not able to accept our invitation to be at the Class dinner, and we also regretted his absence but it was good to get a glimpse of him at the Variety Show the night before in the Hopkins Center.

The Class was represented at his funeral by Charlie McGonghran, Sherry and Elizabeth BaketeJ, Sam Stratton, Al Foley,Sammie Sampson, Dick Goddard, and George and Hazel Macomber. The Class extends deep sympathy to his daughter and her family.

A large part of the success of the Bicentennial celebration of Lincoln, N.H., was due to the tireless efforts of Sherm and Rachel Adams. Rachel as general chairman worked feverishly since February and did a commendable job to crowd all the celebration into three days, August 14-17. Sherm gave a talk on "Phantom Town" Saturday, and Sunday he honored the memory of the pioneer settlers of the town at an open-air service. The summer stock company gave a pageant in which characters of Sherm and Rachel and the members of their family appeared several times during the events of the years reviewed. Ted Marden was on the committee also. We stopped in to see Ted between events and found him doing a masterful job of babysitting with the grandchildren.

It was quite a shock to arrive home from Maine on June 3 to the ring of the telephone and have Paul Richter break the news of the death of Lee Hodgkins; especially so, as we had had such a pleasant visit with him and Ann at "The Moorings" the day before he died, and had left him in such good health and good spirits.

Doc and Harriett Miller were the only industrious '20s who attended the Alumni College. On one of my frequent jaunts to Hanover with my neighbor, Dick Litchfield '22, we tried to locate Doc. He was either cavorting or had his nose so deep in the books that we couldn't get to him.

Sherry and Elizabeth Baketel had a grandson who was counselor at Camp DeWitt in nearby Wolfeboro. They stopped in one afternoon on their way to "Stone House." Sherry is earnestly working as your Bequest Chairman, and is hoping everybody is doing some serious thinking regarding one of the most effective means of insuring the continued growth of Dartmouth - through bequests.

While Jim and Ruth Chilcott were in Wellesley in July to attend one of the famous clambakes of Spider Martin '19 they stayed over a couple days with Bun andDot Harvey. I bet the clambake was a corker!

Cy Rounsville, modest as he is, probably never told anybody at Reunion that he had gone up another rung of the ladder, having been elected president of the Union Savings Bank of Fall River.

Ed Naylor, of Dunstable, Mass., died on June 22. He very much wanted to return for Reunion last June but breathing was so difficult for him he was not able to make it. He had 22 grandchildren and had he come back for Reunion, he would have received a prize, for 22 is the largest number, by far, at least that we know about. It had been his real wish to donate his body to Dartmouth Medical School but the procedure was complicated and he did not complete the arrangements. It shows, however, his deep and generous thinking, and the Old Dartmouth spirit.

Clayt and Ethel Wallace stopped in to visit Ken and Lavinnia Hardy who have a delightful summer home on Ocean Point overlooking Linekin Bay in Maine, and not far from Al Cate's unique nautical summer home. Wish we had known you were in the area, Clayt, as Hazel and I were in Boothbay Harbor at the time, and would have enjoyed seeing you also.

The Al Freys vacationed at South Bristol, Me., where they rented one of the "Mooring" rustic cottages that Lee and Ann Hodg-kins bought just last year. It is too much of a project for Ann to carry on without Lee so she is selling the property this fall.

Art Pierce retired this year, having served since 1954 as Superintendent of Schools for the Supervisory Union 22 which includes Hanover, Orford, Lyme, and the Dresden District which he helped create for the junior and senior high school students of Hanover and Norwich, the first district in the country combining two states. He could have retired in 1961 but the compulsory retirement was extended for his special case. Now, however, he can enjoy his well-earned leisure. He lives on the Lyme Road out of Hanover.

Robin Pearson, after living at Blind Brook Lodge in Rye, N.Y., for 35 years has recently moved. Her new address is Sky Top Drive, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Another milestone for Al Haas. He has been appointed assistant vice president of the investment counsel division of Moody's Investment Service. Before joining Moody's in 1950 Al had his own investment advisory firm.

A telegram was received from JerryStone's daughter and her husband during Reunion from Sioux City, lowa, sending best wishes for a wonderful reunion and wishing they could have joined us.

Our Paul Sample was one of five to receive an honorary doctorate in June from Nasson College in Springvale, Maine.

Mugs Morrill is ever active. We see his name under the list of officers and committee chairmen of the Massachusetts Bankers Association, he being chairman of one of the committees.

We learn from the Kennebec Journal that at a dinner meeting on July 18 at the Brunswick Naval Air Station, Col. Hibbard Richter, of Augusta, was elected president of the Maine Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, a charter having been presented to the chapter by Conrad D. Philos of Washington, D.C., president of the association,

Al Foley was the honored guest at a Delta Upsilon testimonial dinner in the spring on his retirement as faculty adviser and treasurer of the house corporation. Al was a charter member of the D.U. at Dartmouth and did a bang-up job in nursing each group through all their woes, financial and otherwise. It was announced that there would be an "Al Foley Library" for the D.U. house in his honor.

Here it is football time already. Al Foley will be getting out a Newsletter soon and there should be information about the informal gatherings built around football games - so watch for it. There will be tailgating before each of the games, we are sure, so look for the Big Green banner with 1920 on it and gather 'round. We'll see you there!

Secretary,R.F.D. 1, Center Harbor, N.H.

Treasurer, Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 13, Pa.