1899

Life in Florida reminds me of Fred Cronus and Charlie and Mary Adams in old days. Rodney Sanborn took me to Fairchild Tropical Gardens; rode the Rambler along 85 acres of winding trail, with every imaginable kind of palm and scores of orchids and other exotic flowers, blighted, however, by a recent cold snap. On my birthday Malcolm and Rachel took me to the worldfamous Miami Seaquariam with its large and small glass tanks revealing hundreds of species of fish from the tiniest up to the great sharks, turtles, and performing dolphins. Finally Hawley Chase entertained me at Alcazar Hotel on Biscayne Boulevard. I felt most handsomely treated by them all.

Before his birthday on June 12 Hawley will doubtless be back in New Hampshire; I left March 25. Please see memo at top of column for mailing suggestion after that date. Hawley's son-in-law Jack Berry has an interesting weekly column in the Newport "Argus Champion" called "As We Were. He scans papers or records of the area from 15 years to 100 years back for mention of persons, events, landmarks of local interest. Let's turn him loose on Dartmouth '99 records and locate some of the news your secretaries have missed. You'll surely pick up some of Hawley's elocutionary and political efforts in old days along with other Dartmouth highlights of the past. Give it a try, Jack. There were those days when LuteOakes threw the hammer farther than anybody else. And Anne still has those exciting Christmas parties in Minneapolis Lute used to love so. Then there was Hawley's own Uncle Barnard too, and now there's a grandson Barnard making a name as high school football captain and preparing to be one of the Farmers of the Future.

Warren Kendall's daughter Roberta and Rolfe Kennedy visited brothers Bill and Gordon in Louisville a while back, got all "caught up" on family news; then played golf at Christmas time in Ponte Vedra. Both Ed Hyatt's son Allen and Willard Hyatt's widow Jessica and their daughters Ann and Ruth are in the news today. Allen and Mildred's son Bill graduated from Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga. Dad Allen, also an Army man, found he could wear his old uniform for the occasion. Now Bill and Barbara with son Scott have gone to Vietnam. Jessica's girls are both librarians. Ruth in Farmington, Conn., near LouisBenezet's daughter Genevieve Butterfield; she writes an annual letter to friends. Well worth quoting if there were room, lively with descriptions of their village.

The Maurice Dickey family are at it again with their horses and hand-illustrated holiday cards. This year Olive and Perry Weston '40 join Eleanor and Jack Drysdale in the art while continuing the good old family custom of having a fall rendezvous at the Harvard game. Son Bob Dickey '31 too, of course. His and Olive's Peter is now a freshman at Dartmouth; last summer he was a host at Sturbridge Village. "He loves people," his friends say. No wonder he makes good. Some persons never get that far in a lifetime. But '99's Grandpa Maurice was always that kind.

George Rounds' widow Virgil has had a strenuous year: clearing up her last sister's affairs in Tulsa, where two brothers helped; then coming to daughter Helen and Roy Rowan's ('41's) home to care for those four active boys, all under eleven while the parents made a four-week business trip to Europe and the Far East. But Virgil managed "in spite of the odds"! A weekly assist from Mary Ann, wife of brother George '42, New Jersey was a help.

An interesting note from Pat Uhlmann '37, president of Standard Milling Co., in Kansas City. He read in January about K's visit to Frank Staley's widow Pearl in California. It seems that Pat is "a good friend of their son Walter; I've often ridden with him in Mexico, Mo." Thanks for your note, Pat, and please remember me to Walter.

A good summer to everybody!

Secretary, c/o William M. Beat 83 Wildwood Street Winchester, Mass. 01890

Class Agent, Box 87, West Cornwall, Conn.