1903

Here are notes of some letters which came in too late for the October MAGAZINE but very little since. My filing system seems to be getttng worse and somehow letters I would like to share with you seem to get lost.

A good letter from Mrs. Benton, daughter of Leigh Kimball, told of Leigh's having suffered an arterial cerebral spasm in July 1967. How I missed the bad news for so long I cannot figure out. He cannot get around without help and reading and writing are extremely difficult, but except for some arthritis he is not too uncomfortable physically. I urge those of you who can, to write him at 1165 Hamilton St., Somerset, N. J. 08873, attention of Mrs. L.A. Benton. Letters from Gink Ford report he is in good health but that Mrs. Ford continues to be in poor shape and needs his help and aid. Gink is hoping even now to get to Hanover in June of 1973. We hope to be with him there and some of you folks as well.

Horace Kidger wrote from Blueberry Hill in East Wakefield, N. H., just too late to get in the October news. Horace writes that his garden work and other outdoor chores keep him busy. He reports that at the May meeting of the New England History Teachers' Association, the Kidger Award for 1969 went to John P. Shaw, head of the Social Studies Department, Concord, N.H., High School. By the time you read this, Horace will probably be back at Anna Maria, Fla., for his winter refuge in the Sun State.

In the Class News Letter of August 19, there is included listing of a memorial gift for our George Hoke by his son George P. Hoke, Dartmouth '35. George was generous enough to forward me copy of letter to Orton Hicks '2l in which he mentioned receiving our News Letter of August 19. He mentions that in the 69th Alumni Fund Campaign he forwarded a Memorial Gift for his father of '03 and another for his great-great-grandfather, Sam Peabody of Dartmouth 1803. He mentions the fact that in the case of 1903 the memorial gifts exceeded the class member gifts and that of these memorial gifts the greater bulk was from the widows.

He draws the conclusion that since women already control some 73% of the world's wealth and since in our older classes many are already making memorial gifts in memory of their deceased husbands, might this not be a very very important phase of any over-all solicitation on behalf of the College?

I am sure our 1903 widows can be proud of their record of support.

Secretary and Treasurer 13 Vermont Ave. Binghamton, N. Y. 13905