1900

Is not your secretary's face very red? He has recently discovered that the name of Marian Atwood. widow of Chels Atwood, was inadvertently omitted from the list of those who attended the 65th reunion of 1900 as reported in the July issue of the MAGAZINE. Now in part to make amends for this oversight, I want to say that Marian, good friend and loyal supporter of our class, was very much here at the reunion. It was a great pleasure to all of us reuners to have her gracious and genial personality with us for the days of our last formal reunion.

Marian spent the summer in Chelsea, Vt., at the old Atwood homestead. On September 26 she drove to Hanover with three Massachusetts friends who were her house guests. On arriving in Hanover she contacted her grandnephew who is a member of the freshman class at Dartmouth, and invited him and his roommate to have dinner with them at the Hanover Inn. This same Sunday the Goodhues were also dining at the Inn, and so they had the opportunity to meet and have a pleasant chat with Marian and her guests.

I have indirectly learned that recently Mrs. Barrows, widow of Nat Barrows, has given up her home in Brookline, Mass., and gone to live near her son at Atkinson Depot, N. H. Very unfortunately for the past two or three years she has been in poor health. She is now in a nursing home not far from the town in which her son lives. In this emergency it must be a source of gratification to her to be where her son can frequently drop in to see her.

During the summer your secretary learned that Mrs. Church, daughter of Paul Redington, was in Hanover one day in the spring. She was on a tour of New England from her home in Virginia, and stopped off in Hanover to see her father's college and to call in at the Dartmouth Outing Club House where two of the Redington heirlooms are located. She was anxious to see the Redington great-grandfather clock and the Kodiak bear skin which is mounted on the wall of the reception room and which her father donated to the Outing Club House. This skin was taken from a huge Kodiak bear which Paul shot on Kodiak Island while he was serving in Alaska as a member of the U.S. Government Forestry Service.

Gilbert Balkam Jr., son of "Cuddy" Balkan!, and his wife came to Hanover in August to attend the Alumni College. One afternoon during the sessions they very considerately and graciously came to call on us. In the course of the conversation we learned something of the rigorous, absorbing, and interesting program of the Alumni College. Each student before arriving in Hanover has read certain books which set the stage for the formal sessions. Every morning a general lecture is given to the entire group. Then the rest of the morning is taken up with discussion in small groups under the leadership of a member of the Dartmouth faculty. Since the students have different backgrounds and experiences and therefore have varying shades of opinion these discussions, though thoroughly amicable, do generate some degree of warmth. Very often important points raised are enthusiastically discussed by individuals long after the discussion group has broken up. Afternoons and evenings offer opportunity to browse in the library, to tour the countryside, to engage in social and recreational activities, and to hear lectures and concerts, and to see plays put on by the repertory theater group. Thus the days are filled to the brim with intellectual invests, genial companionship, and an introduction to wider horizons. The last day of the sessions I chanced to meet on the street a friend and said to him "I suppose that now you feel well educated." His rather laconic reply was: "I have at last learned how really uneducated I have been." And so it appears that students have had a rare privilege and participated in a very profitable educational experience.

Secretary and Treasurer Box 714, Hanover, N. H.

Bequest Chairman,