1905

We of '05 did very well in the Alumni Fund, finishing second in the veterans group. First was 1900; third, 1907; fourth, 1902; fifth, 1906; and sixth, 1904. We missed the $2,750,000 total goal by $89,000. Details will be out later.

Football prospects will be improved by the installation of artificial turf in the Leverone Field House. The team will be able to practice under cover in wet weather. We expect a winning season again this year.

Bill Blatner gave his very valuable cello and bows to the College which received them through representatives Paul Zeller, professor of music, and Mario de Bonaventura, director of music at Hopkins Center. We all remember Bill's beautiful music.

Bob Falconer writes, "... no chance of doing much tripping this summer. Still drive but am not too enamoured to too much of it in a bunch. Edna is troubled with arthritis in one knee and it is the knee that goes with the foot which depresses the gas and brake pedals. So she gets tired of driving after a short while. But we'll get to our 70th in '75 if we have to walk. Count on it."

C. C. Hills reports, "Nothing new here except the usual hot summer. The Suwannee is admirably air conditioned throughout and I take my walks in the early forenoon or late afternoon. I think I wrote you that the local Alumni Association now meets at the Sweden House on U. S. Rte 19 where the food is good and the surroundings pleasant. Keep well and come to Anna Maria, Fla., early this season."

Emily Emerson Day writes that she is sorry to be so late in sending her check for the Dartmouth Fund; she hopes it is not too late and it is not.

From Maude Harding, Bob's wife, "Sorry for the delay in sending check. Gene, who has been my lifelong companion, has been very ill since April, although up and around except for three weeks. She always does everything for me. I am thoroughly spoiled. Both of us now on the mend." She adds best regards to the Class.

Mary Hayes, Percy Ladd's daughter, and her husband Fred on a ten-day July jaunt through New England stopped in Hanover and looked in on Dartmouth Hall and Baker Library; the latter is her favorite building. They passed through Burlington, Vt., and later saw Camel's Hump which her father called his favorite mountain. She says it was a very pleasant trip except for the weather.

Bob Atwood '42, son of our Jake, writes that his daughter Elizabeth is at Smith as a sophomore after one year at Randolph Macon's Womens College. Bob and wife Dorothy plan to fly to Northampton to see her settled.

Ernest White says that he and Hilda are enjoying good health and that they see a lot of their children and grandchildren. Cy is still improving his mind, currently by reading the life of Daniel Webster. He adds, "Speak for yourself, Daniel. My best regards to you and Jane and tell her she married a first class secretary."

Ernest had his 89th birthday on September 6. I called him to congratulate him and he reported a party to stop all parties — a dinner at a local hotel for 20 relatives and friends. He promised to send me a report from his local newspaper. He also reported the death in August of Ethel Conley, widow of Walter.

Birthdays coming: Charles Hodgdon, 91 on September 22; Bill Blatner, 89 on November 1, C. C. Hills, 91, November 19.

Secretary and Treasurer 5 Pine Ridge Rd. West Medford, Mass. 02155