1905

The Keadys of Melrose used the long weekend of October 12 to visit their children in Vermont. Rita Keady spent some weeks in hospital in-Nashua but is now back home. Her son Tom and wife are both working in a California bank. Our Tom has two namesakes now working to carry on the name.

The final results of the Alumni Fund this year will be sent to everyone in a very short time. 1905 made our best record ever, finishing close to the top in the veteran group of 13 classes. For this record I express to you all my sincere, heartfelt thanks.

Ethel Lillard recently lost her last brother, Edward E. Hazen of 1918. He and his older brother were in the paper business in Hadley, Mass.

Ida Parkinson writes on September 30, "We had two weeks of beautiful weather. In Indian summer now it is sunny and delightful but real cool. No frost as yet but it will come soon. All goes well with me; I go to lots of meetings but walk slower. Have given up my drivers license. My roses are still beautiful. I have always enjoyed working in my garden. Best wishes to all the boys and girls of '05."

Maude Harding is back at her Wellesley She and Jane have birthdays October 20-1. Welcome again to our Boston area, Maude.

I talked with Martha, Ernest White's grandoaughter, who is 26. She told me that Ernest was in the Sea Side Rest Home, Portland, Me., with a heart condition. He is in poor health and cannot speak very well. Martha is married, has one daughter, and is living in the old homestead a Falmouth Foreside.

Ernest has three children: Richard, living in California; John '45, living in Freeport, Me.; and Margaret Wilson, Evanston, Ill. Richard and Margaret spent a week recently with Ernest.

Our football season has started off, as of this writing, with two losses. The advance information on the team was moderately optimistic and the early results are disappointing. All we can do is hope for a quick turn around, as in 1973.

The Trustees' financial committee has been meeting recently, trying to solve the serious money problems of the College. We are better off than most Ivy League colleges, but we all hope for any early change for the better.

Charles Hodgman had his 93rd birthday September 22. He had a visit from his children who urged him to move nearer to them. However, he enjoys his friends, and nearby there lives a cousin who sees him every day and drives him on shopping trips and to church.

On September 22 I had a special party for my local relatives who could not attend my January 10 birthday party in Florida. There were 44 present at my grandson Hubert Gray's home in Action. There were two cakes, one decorated with our family tree, the other marked in squares with "R.W.B. '05." For me the highlight was a letter from College Secretary Mike McGean honoring me as "Dartmouth's Elder Statesman."

Many of us are enrolled in the A.A.R.P. We of Dartmouth are very happy that John B. Marton '31, P.B.K. Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, has taken an advisory position with A.A.R.P.

I talked with Herf Elliott's wife Prissy who says Herford is moderately active - reads and enjoys television and radio. They do not drive as much as they used to. Last year we attended one of the football games at Hanover with the Elliotts. This will be the first time I have missed the game with Harvard. Wonder how many of the '05 men remember the game when the Harvard Stadium was dedicated? Those living today are not able to make the effort to make the trip.

Secretary and Treasurer

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