1899

I wish I could thank every one of you individually for your warm and deeply appreciated messages of sympathy after May left me last spring. Her loss is not the only cause for my soon leaving our homeland since 1942. It was soon compounded by the State's final sudden decision to take our home in order to widen Route 103. A check can, of course, buy a house, but hardly a home.

As I said in ..the June MAGAZINE I cannot any longer promise a regular '99 column as I have tried to do since January 1958. But I shall contribute whenever I can. Sometime this month I plan to visit a cousin in California whom I have never met, though we have corresponded since she was six years old. We are the only ones in our generation surviving on our side of the family. I only regret that in taking this trip I cannot follow the wonderful example set by such earlier secretaries as Warren Kendall,Joe Gannon, and Phil Winchester in looking up some of our scattered Ninety-Niners. Mail, however, will reach me if addressed Care of Mrs. Joseph A. Murphy, 1434 92nd Ave., Oakland, Cal.

One more of our small band of '99 men has passed away. Word has just come of the death of Ed Allen on September 3. Ed went to the hospital in mid-August after a partial stroke and the first reports of his condition had been encouraging. An obituary will appear next month.

Jim Barney's son Roger had the bad luck to break his leg just as he was preparing to take the family to their New Hampshire summer home in Snowville. Louis Benezet's daughter Genevieve Butterfield after their 35th in Hanover wrote, "Dick and I placed flowers beside the three stones in the Hanover Cemetery last week, and felt that you were with us again as last year." And a like sincere tribute came from Louis and Milly Benezet in California.

Sam Burus's two daughters, Barbara Stewart and Marjorie Cline, were near each other in Westport and Salters Point for the summer, while the latter's daughter was in Sweden with the "Experiment in International Living," and the former's son Sam and his wife in Columbus, Ohio, were busy learning to live with their new son. HawleyChase continues his active career on three levels: Miami hotels in the winter, life in his old Newport, N. H., homestead with his daughter Marion Berry, and in Montclair, N. J., with his daughter Janet McSpadden. Walter Eastman's Florence has a lively five-year-old great-grandson Craig near by in LaGrange Park as well as Caroline's Jerry mowing lawns and weeding gardens, and Cheryl working in her regular summertime store.

Joe Gannon has enjoyed his usual relaxation in his comfortable Connecticut home, after again completing successfully his annual spring campaign for the Alumni Fund. He has seen all his children and his children's children. Of his five great-grandchildren Kenneth, the oldest, has just entered the University of Hartford. Daughter Genevieve has finished the latest life of Prexy Tucker, "Couldn't lay it down." From quiet Kittery Joe Hobbs has made two lengthy summer journeys, one to Hanover - "The old town seems very busy for this time of year," and one to Bradford to see the secretary. To the latter, with an assist from Crosby Hall's Dave Orr, he entrusted for delivery to the College Library a large Bicknell engraving of Prexy Tucker that had hung in Joe's home since college days. Joe and K and friendly escort Hilda Fife looked at old family snaps, including one of K and May on their honeymoon in 1903 in Jackson. "Just as I knew them both," said Joe.

More news in November about Fod Martin and his summer travels; Herb Rogers '99 telephone greeter; Sadie (Mrs. Ed) Skinner, Muriel (Mrs. Gus) Heywood, our duo in Worcester; Eva (Mrs. Guy) Speare and Tat (Mrs. Arthur) Irving, our duo of October Birthday Girls; Elma (Mrs. Tony) Willard from Maine - and others if you'll just remember to write the secretary at his new address in California.

The Dartmouth Club of Paris picnic in June was held at Madame DuBarry chateau,overlooking the Seine. Alumni present were Pinky Lindell '50, J. Clark Moore'43, Bob Stirling '55, Chuck Carleton '41, George Boswell '39, Dan Vock '54, andAnthony Field '61. Wives and numerous children were also on hand as photo shows.

Secretary, Care of Mrs. Joseph A. Murphy 1434 92nd Ave., Oakland, Calif.

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