1907

Greetings to all you classmates, wives, widows, sons and daughters. Our best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy New Year.

June 1969 is a significant milestone in the history of Dartmouth College for it will mark the beginning of the Bicentennial year. There will be a special reunion for all post 50-year classes on June 16, 17, and 18, 1969, and we hope that many of you will return. Contact David E. Orr '57, chairman of the College's committee on Class Reunions for dormitory accommodations and housing.

You will recall that Prof. Milton Gill, chairman of the Music Department of the College, played the organ for us at our 60th reunion Memorial service in Rollins Chapel in June of 1967. This well known composer of organ music, was among the 32 persons killed Friday night, October 25 in the crash of a Northeast Airlines plane on Moose Mountain, near Hanover. How tragic this is.

Dr. Harry Whitaker and Miriam write me that they are enjoying the year 'round mild Florida climate at De Bary, Fla., near Glen Lake and would be glad to hear from classmates.

On Wednesday, October 16 at Bill Smart's home in Belmont, Mass., Bob Kenyon,Bishop Niles, Roger Brown '05 and your secretary met and had luncheon at Fantasia's Restaurant in Cambridge while Ruth Smart, Lura Kenyon, Jane Brown and Ethel Grebenstein enjoyed a fashion show and luncheon with the Dartmouth Women's Club at Bear Hill Country Club, Stoneham. It's a great life!

On Thursday, October 24 your secretary received two tickets to the Dartmouth-Harvard game via mail from Bob Lyons, Washington, D. C. They were in Section 3, Row 88. Bob was unable to make the trip. I took my grandson Richard with me. The weather was sunny and windy. Some 43,000 people were present. Leon Sprague's daughter Harriet Tucker and her husband sat beside us. It was 65 years ago that we of the Class of 1907 saw Dartmouth dedicate the Stadium and win 11 to 0. Things were different today. We seemed to lose because we could not hold on to the football on those completed forward passes.

Allan Brown's winter address is Anna Maria, Fla. 33501; Fred H. Baldwin's is 6510 Arizona Street. Box 5237, Trailer Estates, Bradenton, Fla. 33505; Leon A. Sprague's, Box 772, Anna Maria, Fla. 33507. They all returned to their winter homes. Mrs. George E. Liscomb's new address is Care Mrs. W. J. Nelson, Henniker, N. H. 03242. George H. Hoyt's new address is 1160 Singingwood Court, #1, Walnut Creek, Calif. 94529.

Classmates having birthdays in December are Earle Fowler, 7; Leon Sprague, 9; Arthur Leavitt, 13; James O'Neill, 17; CharlesRichardson, 28; and Harold Niles, 31.

That's all the news I have at this time. Please keep your cards and letters coming my way for it is interesting and you know I love to hear from you all.

Nathaniel Leverone '06 of Chicago, who saw his first Dartmouth-Harvard game in1901 and has since missed only one (when hospitalized in 1966), was in Hanover tosee the team off Oct. 25 and then attended the game in Cambridge the next day. Withhim are (l to r) Athletic Director Seaver Peters '54, Mrs. Leverone, and Coach BobBlackman. He came this year despite a recent operation.

Secretary, Box 321, 8 Grafton Rd. West Upton, Mass. 01587

Ireasurer, 79 Milk St., Boston, Mass. 02109

Bequest Chairman, LEON A. SPRAGUE