1900

Ethel Woodman, widow of Jim Wood-man, writes me with enthusiasm, and some measure of pride, about members of her family. The oldest daughter of son James is the wife of Jean Pierre Gouiraud. They have been visiting relatives in the south of France, and are expecting to be sent to Montreal where he will become Professor of Business at Montreal University for two years. Betsey, the daughter of son Everett, and her husband are now settled in Boston where she teaches French in a school for girls, and he attends Fletcher's School of Diplomacy. Howard Hatch 3rd, son of her daughter Dorothy, is now in his junior year at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis.

Elizabeth Gaffney, daughter of George Tong writes from her home in Redding, Calif., that she and her husband were some what disappointed not to go to Alaska for their usual summer visit. Due to the illness of Mr. Gaffney's father, it seemed advisable to remain nearer. They compromised by using their trailer to visit relatives, friends, and old haunts as well as interesting new places in Idaho and western Montana. While on the trip Bill indulged in some trout fishing but found it below the standard to which he had become accustomed in Alaska. I presume their Siamese cat who always accompanies them on their wanderings may also have looked upon the Montana trout with some disappointment.

News has been received that Alice Rankin, widow of Walter Rankin, is comfortable and able "with the aid of a competent housekeeper" to maintain her apartment on Church Street, Brookline, Mass. During the summer she enjoyed a trip to Lisbon, N.H., and a visit with her son Kenneth, whose son Russell, after a long tour of duty in Vietnam, is now at home. I believe he was in that first contingent to be brought back to the United States by order of President Nixon. Marjorie Smith, daughter of Alice, writes that she and her husband Spencer, were present at the Bicentennial celebration in Hanover at which Lord and Lady Dartmouth were present.

Charlotte Sanborn, widow of Chan Sanbom, reports that her granddaughter and husband, J. Ansil Ramsay, have finished a year of research work in Thailand. The couple also has completed a tour around the world. The outward trip was from San Francisco via Manila and Hong Kong to Bangkok. The return was by air, from Bangkok to London where they spent several weeks. From London they flew to Jacksonville, Fla., his home. At the end of the summer they went back to Ithaca, N.Y., where he is completing work for his Ph.D. degree.

On October 1 our good friend Alice Proctor passed away at the Brookside Nursing Home in White River, Vt., where she had been living for the past year. Funeral services were at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover and the burial in the Old Dartmouth Cemetery. Some years ago Alice had established the Charles A. Proctor Scholarship Fund and the family requested that contributions be made to this in lieu of flowers.

Charles and Alice were much beloved not only by 1900 but by many generations of the Dartmouth family. Classmates remember Charles not only as a respected member of the physics department for forty years but as an all-round athlete. After college football and tennis he became interested in winter sports and is affectionately known as the "father of skiing in America."

Two sons survive, Charles N. '2B of Yosemite National Park, Calif., and John C. '36 of Scituate, Mass. There are four grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. 1900 extends sympathy to them all in their bereavement.

Secretary and Treasurer The Austin Home Warner, N. H. 03278