1914

Checking birthdays occuring in May, one finds seven. If all could be celebrated in one party as we hope they can be when we meet next year in Hanover for our 60th Reunion, six states would be represented.

From San Francisco, Calif., would come Hugh Mackinnon vieing for the distance record with Theodore Main from Cocoa Beach, Fla. Meanwhile, Professor. Willard Kinne would be coming by easy stages from Cincinnati, Ohio. John Warren would be on his way from Wrentham, Mass.; Carleton Kingsford from East Wakefield, N.H.; Myron J. Files from his town of Northwood Ridge, also in N.H.; and from the Far North would come your secretary from Newport, Vt.

The aggregate age of the May seven will be 558 years. Without knowing how many of the seven will be accompanied by wives, one can only marvel at the wonderful care that each of our seven classmates has received to have lived so long.

Gordon (Jim) Piatt of whose busy life in Hygate Springs, Vt., we reported a month ago writes that not only were he and Jim Hawley roommates at Dartmouth but that they graduated together from Kimball Union Academy. This is of special interest to me for it was to K.U.A. on recommendation of John Piane, then a school trustee, that I sent my son Drew who was in need of training if he was to enter Dartmouth.

Sam Sheldon, holding the fort in Red Wing, Minn., writes acknowledging birthday greetings as he approaches his 82nd year, but is as wary of answering questions I asked him as any witness in the Washington Watergate case. All I asked, as I do of you, was "How does the world look to you from the perspective of some 80 years?" I'll not quote him, nor will I you if asked not to, but please do write your secretary more often.

Much appreciated is a note from Water Island. St. Thomas in the West Indies, from Lay Little who writes that he and Ruth have been there since February 14, expecting to stay until early April. They have shared a house with Herford Elliott '05 and his wife. Sig Larmon joined them for a ten day visit in March.

Looking back a short five years, May class notes carried the picture of Fred Davidson, then our class Agent, receiving from the Dartmouth Alumni Council their citation and highest award for his achievements in his engineering profession and for his distinguished services to Dartmouth College over many years.

To Abe Newmark as our present Class Agent and to all who assist him must go our commendation.

With no details to give you now, report must be made 0f a Treat loss in the death on March 28 of Winthrop James Snow. It seems impossible to believe that we could ever hold a class reunion without our Class Marshall leading us across the campus.

Secretary, Lake Road, Newport, Vt. 05855

Class Agent, 171 Brimbal Ave. Beverly, Mass. 01915