1900

In August Elizabeth Gaffney, daughter of George Tong, was a member of the Dartmouth Alumni College. Elizabeth is classically trained and the mental impact when she ran headon into modern physics must have been challenging. Trout fishing lured Bill and Elizabeth up to Connecticut Lakes in early May and again in June. After long service in the Navy Bill has elected to retire, and the family expects this fall to establish a residence in the west, possibly in Arizona. Their daughter Betty Jean is continuing her research work in chemistry at a Japanese university. Since the close of the California school year her six-year-old son, Brenden, has been with her in Japan. Son George expects to receive his Ph.D. degree from Stanford in 1968. Son Edward is continuing graduate work in geology at .California Technical Institute, and his wife is teaching in the California school system.

Mabel Downing, widow of Arthur Downing, reports on the success of her son, Everett. He is currently connected with the Maine Agricultural Department where for some years he has been doing experimental work with poultry. He has gained a worldwide renown in his achievement, through scientific feeding, of bringing chicks in eight weeks up to the heaviest known broiler weight. He is now experimenting with the effect through scientific feeding on egg production. Mabel says of herself that she is moderately inactive but does make occasional visits to Maine and then in the winter months to Florida where she escapes the more rigorous climate of these northern areas.

I regret to report the death of another loyal and devoted member of the 1900 family. Mrs. Herbert L. Trull, widow of "Herbie" Trull, passed away in May at the Peterboro Memorial Hospital. She had apparently been in good health up to the time she was taken to the hospital. Mrs. Trull was ever helpful in all constructive community activities. She attended many of our 1900 gatherings and we gratefully remember her gracious and friendly personality.

Archibald Isaac conferred a considerable honor on 1900. He was the first full-blooded Indian to enter Dartmouth since the days of Dr. Charles A. Eastman '87. He was of the Squaxon and Snohomish Indian tribe, and entered Dartmouth from the state of Washington. "Archie" left college at the end of freshman year, and the class lost track of him for over fifty years. About 1949, working through the Department of the Interior in Washington, Clarence McDavitt located him in Seattle. We have heard little from him directly, and my contacts with him have been through ludge James W. Hodson '29 of the Seattle Superior Court. In a recent letter Judge Hodson informed me of Archie's death at age 90 at The Redmond Nursing Home, Seattle on August 8. Funeral services were held Saturday, August 12 in Green's Chapel, Kirkland. Judge Hodson represented 1900 and the College at this service. "Archie" is survived by two married sisters.

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