1905

Commencement and the first part of the celebration of Dartmouth's Bicentennial are now past history as is also our 1905 special reunion. Those participating in that event numbered only nine: the Browns, Campbells, Falconers, Putnams, and C.C. Hills.

Our Class was treated royally by the College. It was particularly pleasant that Tom Keady '69, son of the late Walter Keady '34, and grandson of our Tom Keady, was assigned to take care of our Class. He is an attractive and agreeable young man of whom his grandfather could be justly proud.

Roger Brown and "Cy" White attended the Commencement exercises. They had expected that there might be a special ceremony to mark the turning over of the restored portrait of Lord Dartmouth to the College by our Class, but no mention was made of it.

To bring these notes closer up to date, I'll mention first the pleasant items. We were happy to see Fred Chase active and vigorous. He, Mildred, and I were luncheon guests at the charming home of Theora and Philip Chase '07, Fred's brother, in Kennebunk Beach. Stanley ("Tub") Besse is reported to have improved in health and spirits since he has entered a nursing home on Cape Cod. His address is c/o Irving K. Besse, 2 Gingerbread Lane, Yarmouth Port, Mass. Irving is Stanley's nephew.

Other items are unfortunately rather distressing. Charlie Brooks, Jessie reports, is making very poor progress toward recovery. He is at home but does not feel able to receive callers at this time. Clayton ("Elsie")Grover, after suffering several shocks, had to be moved from his summer home to the Belfast Hospital and later to the Athol Hospital. There it will be easy for Marion to visit him.

Another addition to our list of invalids is Hilda White. On our way to Kennebunk Beach Mildred and I stopped at Falmouth Foreside to call on the Whites, only to find that Hilda had been taken to the Osteopathic Hospital in Portsmouth the previous day. We went at once to see her there and also several times later. She had been in poor health. We found her in apparently good spirits, but very weak. Cy, who was with her, was bearing up well under the strain of Hilda's severe illness. Our deep solicitude and best wishes go to all the afflicted members of our Class family and to their anxious spouses.

To return to our Class reunion — among those who sent notes of regret were Dick Tolman, Ethel Lillard, Harry Lill, Harold Haskell, Rita Keady, Fred Chase, Ida Parkinson, and S. B. Cunningham.

The last mentioned, "5.8." our Class "baby," celebrated his 85th birth on August 27. To mark this event, a large group of kith an'kin gathered at his ranch in Las Cruces in New Mexico. The Class joins me in congratulations to this youngest member of our Class.

Roger and Jane Brown have the distinction of being the only postgraduates to have attended all six sessions of the Alumni College. Incidentally, it should be mentioned that Roger received a letter of special commendation for his continued painstaking efforts in behalf of the Alumni Fund.

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