1899

The big news for the Class of '99 as we arrive at the threshold of 1969 is twofold: First, we celebrate the seventieth anniversary of our graduation from Dartmouth college. It is a stirring event to which we look forward. Our memories reach back to the throng of similar events from 1904 to 1964 from our fifth to our 65thor from the time when we began to bring our brides to Hanover and the Dartmouth campus in 1904 to all the later years when in joyous succession we brought our wives together with our first children, and finally often our entire families. Now there remain but three of those hundred and more men; and a mere baker's dozen of those beloved wives. But now there are scores and scores of children and grandchildren of our own in our homes; and on the old campus and in the new or ancient dormitories we have had gay reunions and rollicking celebrations. We have also had touching and heartening memorials by Montie Fuller in church and in chapel for the hundred and more who have left us.

There may be few if any notable reunions after this Seventieth, but while the years are passing we can be sure that both older and younger men and women and young folks of '99 will many a time pass under the elms of the Campus and roam quietly among the buildings of the past. And one and all will find that the memories are both sweet and lasting.

So let us make the best in every way of this timely opportunity to visit old and beloved scenes of earlier years, however briefly now or later.

Altogether unexpectedly beyond the special ways in which- the College itself is planning to make our stay in Hanover in June delightful our '99 young folks are of their own accord taking all major responsibility into their own hands for our enjoyment and convenience. In due time details of both plans will be in your hands. Today this is the story so far. The three young women who are sponsoring '99's Seventieth Reunion are Phoebe Storrs Stebbins from Hanover; Ellie Brown Blanchard from Norwich; and Julia Fifield (Mrs. Clifford) from Orford.

In the next issue of the MAGAZINE the Secretary plans to return to his main business of playing the town-crier. For this month he will content himself with this simple shrill cry from the head of the street: "Attention! On the alert!" We may rest assured that neither the Dartmouth Alumni

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