1911

Nat Burleigh, our class secretary for 48 years until his resignation earlier this year because of ill health, died in Hanover on April 6. Nat, who also served as class president for the past 14 years, was the stalwart center around whom all 1911 activities revolved for many years and no one can take place. An obituary appears in this issue, requested that in lieu of flowers contributions in Nat's memory be made to the 1911 Alumni Fund.

From Bill Gooding: "Lived in Hanover 37 years and retired for 16 years - studied under two presidents of the College, served under two more, and lucky to be around to welcome the fifth! Dorothy and I are happy to be around, in our environment, and as long as the 'ups' outnumber the 'downs' we shall not complain. Note, Classmates: 624 Wallis Road in Rye is only a mile from Lafayette Road, and about the same distance from the seashore. The education of our children has proved such a good investment that when we get our first million, we have decided to invest in four more. Of our ten grandchildren, three have already graduated from college, three are now in college, two are to enter next fall, and the last two are on the way. They all have much to give. This gives life a delightful continuity for us."

F. A. A. McLaughlin: "Although I was unable to put in a full four years at Hanover, due to the long sickness of my dad, I have always felt that I was extremely lucky to have been able to spend the time there that I did, and to know that there is nothing in the good old USA that can improve upon the old school. My wife Marjorie thinks that I should get off the campus at my age, and sometimes kids me about my deep feeling for Hanover, but I just can't help feeling the way I do about it."

Bernice Dunham writes about herself and Howard: "We grew up together in the same town of Winthrop, Mass., so it was a friendship of 82 years and a happy marriage of 54 years. I have much to be grateful for and that my broken hip allows me to walk in my own home with the aid of a walker."

Kenneth F. Clark: last December, Ken turned over his office at 80 Mason St., Green-wich, Conn., to a fine firm of young lawyers with whom he is associated as counsel. Then, with Elizabeth as companion boarded the "S.S. Gripsholm" in New York on Dec. 20, and for the first time in their lives spent Christmas and New Year's away from their family. "S.S.G." is a beautiful ship ... trip was easy, and island-hopping interesting. We stopped at St. Kitts, Barbados, Trinidad, St. Vincent, Guadaloupe, and St. Thomas. Bar-bados is less than five hours' flying time from New York — a particularly attractive island, where the currency is two Beewee dollars for one U.S. dollar. I was attracted to St. Vincent's (especially Young's Island) which is about a thousand feet distant with a beautiful beach and a few cottages served by a cozy inn. Must say my money is getting anxious to settle in such a spot, as a home away from home. St. Thomas and Trinidad are always exciting. Arrived back in New York, January 3; flew immediately to Miami Beach (6th-10th); then to Mem-phis for a weekend with Ken Jr. and family, then back to work on the 12th - just in time to learn that the Tax Reform Act had not eliminated payment of the fourth installment 1969 tax. With what?!" (Claims he still goes to school and also works to bring home three meals a day for his bride of almost fifty years.)

Edward Poole and Sam Aronowitz went through Albany High School together, on to Dartmouth together, and are still active in hold-on to the Dartmouth outpost at Albany, refusing to retire at the "early age of 65."

Harold E. Burtt is in psychology at the Ohio State University. After a career of teaching, research and administration, retired in 1960. What had been a hobby, then became a major activity, viz. ornithology with emphasis on bird behavior. Macmillan published his "The Psychology of Birds," 1967. In banding birds, he uses a decoy trap 80' x 30' x 7', in which are cracked corn, water and some live birds as decoys On the top is an area of 2" x 4" mesh through which the birds can drop with wings folded but cannot fly out with wings extended. "I chase ,them down a tapering runway to a gathering cage which can then be removed ... for banding. Sometimes I catch 100 birds overnight — mostly cowbirds, redwings, grackles and starlings. Since 1963, have banded over 80,000. The Wildlife Service uses data to study longevity, migration, etc. Many of my own studies appear in scientific journals. Results? 1. Population trends. 2. Retrapping same birds (esp. grackles). 3. Recoveries. Usually dead ones reported. 4. Personality. Two grackles banded on the same day in 1965, reappeared in the trap on the same date in 1968 apparently mated and living "happily ever after."

If you did not read the 1938 Class News in the February issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, you should — it's mostly about the son of John R. Scotford.

Add your congratulations to ours, if you will, to Sam Aronowitz, upon his recent appointment by Governor Rockefeller to be on the Advisory Committee for the Aging New York State; meeting, May 1.

The Dartmouth Medical School has received a gift of $20,000.00 made by William Patten '08 and Bradley M. Patten '11 for a lectureship in the bio-medical sciences, half of which is credited to the class of 1908 and the remainder to 1911. The Third Century Fund benefits to the extent of $10,814,80

Three veteran Class Agents (1 to r), JohnLearoyd '11, Ed Luitwieler '12, and AbeNewmark '14, arriving for the BostonClass Agents dinner on April 1.

Secretary, 557 Bedell St. Baldwin, L. I., N. Y. 11510

Class Agent, 206 Hale St., Beverly, Mass. 01915