1899

The secretary may have difficulty getting his holiday greeting, in the form of a Christmas newsletter, to all '99ers promptly. You almost surely will get your December ALUMNI MAGAZINE before you do the newsletter. So here's a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!" From May and himself to all '99ers, and everybody else, now.

Genevieve Tomlinson Benezet, widow of our Benny, died in the Maunalani Hospital in Honolulu October 4. She had been there almost eleven years in a state of increasing disability both physical and mental. For the sake of her health she and Louis had moved to Honolulu, near son Roger, after Benny's retirement at 70 in 1952 from ten years' teaching at Dartmouth, and several years at Bradley University and Evansville College. In their new life Benny concentrated on three things: teaching in the University of Honolulu; writing and lecturing on his theory of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, being the actual "William Shakespeare, author"; and on his devoted efforts to awaken in his beloved wife some token of returning memory. Now her ashes rest in the quiet old Dartmouth Cemetery beside her husband and their grandson Joel. And we ourselves have the memory of countless happy occasions to which her rare personality contributed so much.

Finally our special congratulations to our five classmates blessed with November or December birthdays: Joe Gannon, 91 on. Nov. 17; Bert Boston, 90 on Nov. 21; FodMartin, 87 on Nov. 28; Joe Hobbs, 88 on Dec. 9; Ed Allen, 91 on Dec. 23. An interested '99 statistician asked recently whether any other classmates, if all were still living, would be nonagenarians today besides our notable trio listed above. If anybody else is interested, here is the answer - figure out the following for yourselves: Alvah G.Sleeper, born Oct. 23, 1872: Frank A. Musgrove, born July 19, 1872; George H. Evans, born May 6, 1872; Herbert L. Lyster, born Nov. 19, 1871; and Edward L. Nye, born Aug. 7, 1870. Incidentally, in 1969 when '99's humble 70th coincides with Dartmouth's glorious 200th, we'll all be nonagenarians. Want to wait?

Secretary, Newbury Rd., Bradford, N. H.