1911

Please, all of you 175 classmates and widows, accept the very sincere good wishes of the Burleighs for an extraordinarily Merry Christmas. May Santa Claus bring good health to you all.

By the time you read these notes, if you do, many of us will have taken up our residence in our favorite winter quarters. Florida will gather in the Applegates, Cheneys,Griswolds, Les Gibsons, Knapps, Lockes,Sandersons, Steeves, Tindalls, Wyman, and Burleighs. Among other Northeners heading southward with the robins will be Dudley,Sarge Eatons, Holdens, Keelers, Mayos,Parkers, and others unknown at the moment.

Those couples who are fortunate enough to reach fifty years of married bliss together, deserve our congratulations and best wishes. Here is an opportunity to do just this for eleven classmates in 1965. So, note the names and dates and drop them a line. Alphabetically they are: Syd and BarbaraBeane, June 29; Don and Fannie Cheney, Apr. 21; Howard and Bernice Dunham, Sept. 7; Sarge and Esther Eaton, Oct. 2; Lesand Marion Gibson, June 2; Harry andRuth Horton, Sept. 18: Bill and RachelMarden, July 2; Ray and Ramah Nead, Oct. 20; Harold and Bertha Raymond, Oct. 1; Harold and Florence Wampler, Jan 30; Frank and Elizabeth Whitcomb, Oct. 25.

Either the Dartmouth Spirit or interest m football brought a large number of classmates to Hanover for the fall games. The disappointed at the Princeton game were Aronowitz, Dunham, Pearson, Pickering, Burleigh, Pendleton. Kimball, Hormel, Locke, Gooding, and Kenworthy. There was no opportunity for any reunion except at the luncheon in the Leverone Field House. That luncheon was a stupendous undertaking very successfully carried out. Congratulations and thanks should go to Jeannette Gill and her cohorts.

Josh and Polly Clark reported on seeing the Learoyds, Mayos, and Henry Smiths at the Harvard Game. Perhaps it is fitting to record that this was the first time that the Burleighs have missed a Harvard game since the last war. The same is true for HowardDunham.

Little more has been learned about the O'Leary accident in September except that the collision took place at the junction of two highways and the car that Alice was driving was tipped over. She is still recovering from the injuries received. This accident recalled an incident in 1950 in which Ted and two of his sons were involved. They were then living in Worcester but were cruising in their 40 foot motor cruiser off of Harwichport. Four men were fishing in a rowboat two miles off shore when their boat capsized. Ted piloted his boat to the stricken men and with his sons rescued the four men.

Fred Long continues to maintain his reputation as a fine correspondent and exhibits a penmanship that puts this writer to shame. Blessings on his head. Fred has been busy promoting a new Dartmouth Alumni Club in Santa Barbara, Calif. It covers five counties, has over fifty members and is the 136tn on the Dartmouth list. It is only fitting that Fred should have been elected its first president.

The Art Sheperds have closed their home in Amherst, N. H., for the winter and will be in Winchester, Mass.

Ruth Backus has been elected president of her class at Wellesley for the next four years. She made some remark about class officers living near the campus after their fiftieth reunion. She also added that an old account book of Sid's listed haircuts at 25 cents.

Doc Carroll makes some reference to geriatrics but then he comes up with this: "As the new college year opens we do note that:

The bird of time has but a little way to flutter And the Bird is on the wing.

Even so we shall sing no sad songs; Maybe a bit of nonsense would be better.

A bloody bleeding sparrow Lived in a blasted spout.

The bloody blooming rain came down And drove the blighter out.

The bloody blinking sun came out; Dried up the blasted rain, And the bloody bleeding sparrow Flew up the spout again.

Mert Wilson has the sympathy of his classmates in the death of his wife Kath on October 1. She was hospitalized on Tuesday night for a heart condition which became critical on Wednesday and she died on Thursday morning. John and Anne Norris represented the class at the funeral in All Saints Church, Baldwin, Long Island.

How many of you recall the class meeting called by President Tucker in A Dartmouth on Sept. 5, 1908, in the afternoon? It was addressed by President Tucker for the purpose of explaining a few items regarding scholarship and conduct during sophomore year.

The President spoke briefly upon the new demands for scholarship, the added work required to meet the more difficult tasks and standards of the curriculum, and the change in method in passing from the recitation system to the lecture system. He also spoke on the subject of hazing, saying that such play was not characteristic of society in general, and so should not find a place in college. "A college cannot be considered first class" he said, "unless hazing is abolished." .

Perhaps you did not realize that one of the first big changes in the educational processes at Dartmouth took place when we were undergraduates.

And to end, as we began these notes — A Happy New Year to you all. And finally, if any of you get to the West Coast of Florida this winter stop in for a toast at 1123 Drew St., Clearwater, Phone number 446-0729.

Howard Dunham (l) and Jim Malley at apicnic held at the home of classmateWarren Kimball '11 in Contoocook, N. H.

Secretary, Box 171, Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, Seaside Ave., Saco, Me.