1900

An incident of the Christmas season which exemplifies the real significance of Christmas in gracious neighborliness befell Alice Proctor, widow of Charles A. Proctor. She was invited to have Christmas dinner with the family of a neighbor. Unfortunately for her Christmas Day brought a heavy snowfall which blocked sidewalks and driveways and made getting out very difficult. However, her host, nothing daunted, got out his car, equipped with sure-grip tires, and drove the steep-snow-laden driveway. Then with his shovel he cleared a path to the door, carried Alice to the car, drove her into his garage where she easily stepped out and happily joined the family circle. After the festivities, in the same manner, she was deposited again at her front door. In the midst of so much turbulence in the world it is heart-warming to find such an expression of kindness and goodness which so well puts into practice the real meaning of Christmas. Rarely, if ever, do such deeds of genuine neighborliness gain recognition from the press and other media of communication.

Olivia Allaway, daughter of "Olive" Foster, reports that her husband, Bill, is busier than ever with the Education Abroad Program of the University of California. A new center has been established in Lund, Sweden, a drama center in Delphi, Greece, and negotiations are under way for centers in connection with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the American University in Beirut, Lebanon. On his last trip abroad he returned from Jerusalem just in time to join the family Christmas party. It is a great pity Olivia has so little to do while her husband is away on his educational missions. Besides the responsibility of and care for a very large house in a suburb of Santa Barbara, Calif., the mothering of three rollicking school-aged children, she is active in advising the United Campus Christian Fellowshop and is also on a foreign student committee. She has time left for a book discussion group, gourmet groups, and last but by no means least taking lessons in folk guitar.

Charlotte Sanborn, widow of Chan San-born, still leads, for one of her years, an active life. Except for the winter months she drives her car to do errands, visit friends, and for local trips. During the past year she has made the trip to Dallas, Tex., to visit her daughter, Elizabeth, and on the return journey stopped in Dover, Ohio, to spend some time with her daughter, Miriam, and her family. During the summer she drove with members of her family to see Colby College at Waterville, Me. At that time a tax institute was being held at the college and she saw parked cars from all over the United States and Canada. Charlotte reports that her grandson, Wayne, is in his last year with the Navy, and recently has taken up distance running with marathon aspirations. Her granddaughter, Charlotte, is currently a graduate student at Cornell, and her granddaughter, Miriam, is in her junior year at Mt. Holyoke College.

I am sorry to report the serious condition of Martha Fowler, widow of AlvahFowler. Her son-in-law writes me that for the past year and a half she has been a patient at the Mar Salle Nursing Home in Washington, D. C. Now for some weeks she has been failing and is unable to recognize members of the family. Martha has been a most loyal and devoted member of the 1900 family. ,

News has been received of the deatn of Arthur Hunt on December 21, 1966 at a nursing home in Weymouth, Mass. Arthur was a member of our class for the fall ana winter terms of freshman year. During the years since he left college 1900 has had almost no contact with him. We did learn that he was engaged in a manufacturing business in Weymouth, and that for several years recently he had been a patient at nursing homes. With Hunt's death there are now only eleven left of the 164 who entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1896.

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