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Arthur and Juliet Soule returned to their winter home at 1122 S. E. 4th Street, at Fort Lauderdale on November 7, 1968.

Larry and Dorothy Symmes took their customary four weeks' cruise on the "Gripsholme" on September 16 and returned on October 18. They report a very enjoyable trip and early in November Larry reported that he was back in his office on a full schedule.

John H. "Dolly" Gray from Sebastopol, Calif., in September reported to your editor. "Now that the World Series has come and gone with satisfactory results I can look around to see what I should have done and haven't. That includes writing to you to thank you for your card in which you congratulated Jane and me on our 53rd wedding anniversary. It doesn't seem that long since Dean Clark tied the knot in Manila at 8 o'clock in the morning (that's when the boat docked) and we are still healthy and still enjoying life. When Jane graduated from the Univ. of Nebraska in 1911 she barely knew the difference between a baseball and a football. Now, after standing me all this time she is as avid a fan as I am.

"Our son Jack '39 is still with the Stanford Research Institute and seems to enjoy it. Our daughter Peg's husband left the S. R. I. a few months ago and is now on his own as a consulting economist."

Harold Clark writes from Chesham, N. H. "As usual my wife Ethelyn and I are living quietly and happily here in Chesham."

Our class ranks and files are closing and at this writing there are only 56 living classmates. Those having January birthdays are: Paul M. Batchelder, and Sumner Crosby, 10; Guy C. Blodgett 17; Henry S. Emery, Charles M. Hall, and Raymond Marsh 27.

Your editor suggests that classmates send birthday greetings to each of the above and renew old friendships. He would also like to receive news notes from those on the above list which he can pass on to the Class through the class newsletter, The '08er. Yours for old '08.

With regret I report that two adopted members of our Class, Walter D. Jones of Utica, N. Y., and Albert E. Perry of Hartsdale. N. Y., died in October.

Walter David Jones, 91, of 19 Proctor Boulevard, Utica, N. Y., died on October 10, 1968, in St. fcuke's Memorial Hospital Center. For 56 years he had been an employee of the Utica Knitting Company, of which he was treasurer for 12 years and a member of its board of directors. He retired in 1952. He was also president of Merchants Bank in Utica when it was formed in 1920 and in 1927 when it merged with the First Bank and Trust Company.

He was a trustee of the Utica Cemetery Association and a member of the Board of Visitors of the Utica State Hospital.

Roland "Pop" Chesley, who sent me the obituary clipping, added "Walter was one of the greatest scouts I have ever known. He had countless friends who held him in the highest esteem. One of his most cherished experiences was his adoption as a member of our Class."

Albert E. Perry of 150 East Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale, N. Y., one of the last of the four adopted members of the Class and of the "Vero Beach" gang, passed away on October 28 in his 88th year. In May 1967 he wrote to Larry Treadway that he had remembered Dartmouth in his will.

Class Notes Editor 13 Pembroke Rd. Danbury, Conn. 06812

Secretary, 120 Broadway, P. W. Brooks and Co. New York, N. Y. 10005

Treasurer, 17 Harland Place, Norwich, Conn.

Bequest Chairman, WARREN , CURRIER