1914

Both space and time are limited this month, but on the question of how many of us boast great grandchildren, let me lead off with the entry of Elmer and Cris Robinson who announced the arrival in August of Nathan Emerson Manning, the redheaded son of their daughter Margaret.

Spurred by our story of Jacky Drake's great grandchild, we heard from Mrs. Edwin E. Souza of Belmont, Mass., the widow of Ernie Kimball, that she has a great grandson, six years old on October 1, whom Ernie did not live to see but of whom he would have been very proud.

I meant to report a lovely letter from Mrs. Joan C. Behrens of Palos Verdes, Cal. to whose husband, Richard K. Behrens '64, our Class on our 50th reunion presented on his graduation "The College on the Hill." She writes, "I've never been to Hanover but I now have a deep appreciation of the rich and wonderful heritage of Dartmouth."

Many of you must have enjoyed the picture shown with our May notes of the stage coaches that met us at the Norwich railroad station in freshman year. It brought a quick request from Dr. Jarrett H. Folley, president of the Hitchcock Clinic, for a print to be enlarged and hung in the station which he and a group of local citizens bought some time ago and refurbished in a fashion appropriate to the era we knew so well.

Just as I had this treasured picture in my files, so our bard, Elmer Robinson found in his records one we hope to see in print of Elmer and some seven assorted valiants of '15 and 'l6 sliding down the roof of College Hall over the Commons, testing the shingles and the seats of their britches.

Why not look for your old "Mem" book and share with us whatever pictures you prize most?

Though the Yale game will be over before these notes can be read, Martha and I hope to meet many of you there. We'll have one son and one resident sophomore on our side of the field, but must confess that on the other side will be one grandson who is now a Yale freshman.

Though still without any detail, I must report the death on July 17, 1971 of our classmate William Albert Green Jr. at age 79. Sadly, we report also news that came by way of Penn Aborn that the wife of BertSymonds of Marblehead, Mass., died following a long illness on September 10, 1971.

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