1900

Arthur Roberts, one of our classical scholars and for many years a master and teacher of classics at St. George's School in Newport, R. I., asserts that after all ignorance is a purely relative matter. To illustrate the point he says; "One day I was walking in Newport with a Wall Street wolf and casually said I didn't know the difference between a stock and a bond. He winced; but later at dinner it was evident that he didn't know whether gorgonzola was a cheese or a picture!" Arthur too is quite adamant on the relative merits of secondary education. Once when in England he met up with a somewhat snobbish Englishman who said to Arthur that of course American education was inferior to that in English public schools. Arthur gleefully retorted that the only American boy at Westminster led the school in scholarship and that a son of a Phillips Academy teacher won the Charterhouse prize essay contest. Arthur does admit that boys at English public schools get a better foundation in the classics than boys in American schools.

Loring Dodd has been spending the winter months at Daytona Beach, Fla. He has been basking in the fragrance of jasmine and mimosa, the loveliness of flowering peach and orange trees, and the blooms of hibiscus and oleander. Such a setting must bring a rejuvenation of the human spirit. It seems to me that Florida has something to do with a search for the spring of eternal youth. Loring evidently demonstrates the validity of this ancient legend for his friends and acquaintances say that he has the bearing of a man closer to sixty than ninety.

Elizabeth Gaffney, daughter of GeorgeTong, gives me news of her intellectuallyable family. George, who graduated from Dartmouth two years ago, received his master's degree in physics from Stanford University, and is currently a graduate student at the University of Warsaw in Poland. Edward spent the past summer working for the Anaconda Copper Company. During this year he has been a graduate student in geology at Dartmouth and expects to receive the master's degree in June. Mary Ann is spending the year as a graduate student in chemistry at a Japanese university. Lib and her Siamese cat keep the homefires brightly burning. She and her husband, Bill, have made two trips to the Connecticut Lakes in New Hampshire. Lib reports a fishing trip which netted a few speckled beauties and a rash of insects, bites, and a hunting trip which gave them a taste of robust wilderness life, but game-wise yielded exactly nothing.

Last summer and fall Betty Redington, widow of Paul Redington, enjoyed an interesting trip in the United States. Altogether she was gone five months from her home in California. In June she flew by jetplane to Arlington, Va., to visit her daughter and old friends. From Arlington she went to Niantic, Conn., to see her niece, to Waukegan. Ill., to visit her younger son and his family; to Summerfield, Calif., where her older son lives; then to northern California to spend some days with her sister. She finally reached her home in La Jolla in ample time to spend a quiet but happy 81st birthday. During her tour she helped to celebrate the birthdays of her three children. This goes to show that Betty remains in good health and vigor for one of her years.

Secretary and Class Agent Box 714, Hanover, N. H.