1913

The Dartmouth 200th Anniversary being celebrated this year will be an outstanding event. Dave Orr will be sending out a letter in March to all the alumni 50 years and over, giving all the details and asking for reservations for those wishing to attend. So far, from our class Vic Dunbar, McClary, Towler, H. Ball, Conant, Scharrer, Remsen, Linscott, and Shepard have signed up. Aronowitz, Terry, Freeman, Kimball, L. Riford, J. Nelson, and Gumbart say they will attend if possible.

Bart Shepard reports that while in Hanover recently, he, Fred Page, Gumbart, and Dr. Harry French attended the Glee Club's performance of the Bi-Centennial Concert which was very good. The songs of the Glee Club were interspersed with picture slides of famous Dartmouth men and brief spoken accounts of important events in the history of Dartmouth.

Vic Dunbar has just left for a trip around the world. His son drove him down to New York where they put up at the Hawthorne Motor Inn in White Plains, N. Y. After the usual preliminaries, farewells, luncheons, etc., Vic boarded the "Rotterdam" and was on his way to Port Everglades, Fla., to pick up a few more passengers. Bon Voyage.

Dr. Richard Spillane, Dartmouth '41 and son of "Red" Spillane wrote me about his father's sickness and death. Red had longstanding emphysema which was well compensated, but it was severely aggravated by a bronchial infection. He was hospitalized for a few days and was markedly improved. Death came in the early morning of the 15th while sitting in a chair and talking to one of the nursing staff. He was in extremely good spirits during his hospital stay and continued to show his deep interest in people of all stations as he had throughout his life.

Well, of all things to happen to our JoeBarnett, Marie explained the accident in a letter to Bill Towler. She said that "a couple of men were working on our lawn trying to find a leak in our watering system." They had dug a hole just outside the carport and one of the men asked Joe to come out and have a look. Joe followed him out and suddenly stepped down into a foot-deep hole. When Marie arrived, Joe was lying on the ground with a most grotesque-looking right ankle. An ambulance arrived in a few minutes and Joe was taken to the hospital emergency room. A portable x-ray revealed a bad dislocation of the ankle but no fracture evident. A partial cast was put on his leg and he was then taken to the operating room where the ankle was manually straightened out. Thus an operation was avoided, another cast was put on to join with the earlier one. To add to his woes, the doctor told him that he also has a fractured heel bone. He will be in the cast for six weeks. It's rather a trying time for Joe and he will be glad to hear from any of you. He is at the Morton Plant Hospital, 323 Jeffars St., Clearwater, Fla. 33516.

A letter from Harold McAllister saying that he had word of my sojourn in the hospital and hoped that my recovery would be speedy and complete. He expects to send in an anecdote which concerns "Bart Shepard's and my first meeting with Warde Wilkins. It was a little unusual and might prove to be interesting to some of the class."

Speaking of the high cost of living: I have just finished a most interesting book by Elspeth Huxley on Australia. She visited a David Fleay who has a nature sanctuary of 65 acres where he keeps koalas, snakes, possums, and platypuses. Platypuses are the most exciting animals of all to feed. Each has a daily intake of between five and six hundred earthworms, forty to fifty Yabbies (small fresh water crayfish) and a steamed egg. When the ground is dry and earthworms are scarce, a pair costs thirty dollars a week to keep more than an elephant. The name of the book by the way is: "Their Shining Eldorado, A Journey Through Australia." Most interesting.

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