1905

The highlight of my 91st birthday January 10 was a telegram from President Kemeny which read "Warmest congratulations and 91 cheers for you on this special day." Twenty friends were at our house to share the birthday cake and soft drinks, and many cards were received.

On January 31 Jane and I had a pleasant visit at the Suwannee Hotel in St. Petersburg with Fred Chase and C.C. Hills. Luncheon in the hotel gave us time to chat. C.C. finds time on his hands as his eyesight is not good enough for reading. He is waiting for the doctor to report that his eyes are in the right condition for a cataract operation. Fred's driver brought him to St. Petersburg. Fred reminisced about college days: "The young professor whom I call Professor Orford (and who was not popular) became engaged to a young woman whose name was Nancy, the daughter of an older professor, and the wedding was slated for a certain evening ceremony. My grandmother, living on the south side of the 'College Green,' could hear the students all the daylight hours before the wedding, as they went across the campus to and from lectures and other duties, shouting at the top of their voices, 'Poor Nancy! Poor Nancy!' "

Talk with Bob and Edna Falconer tells of their flying to the Virgin Islands February 11 for two weeks. They will stay at St. Thomas, bypassing Florida this year. Both are in good health and the doctor says Bob can make it to 100 years. Let's all aim for the same.

At one of the home football games last year Phil Evans '17 and I took his fur coat of college days into Campions to see if it had any sale value. The buyer was Professor Jeffrey Hart, serialized political commentator, who drives a Rolls Royce once owned by William Buckley Jr.

The Trustees will be meeting March 1 to discuss the effect of inflation upon the College; the increase in fuel prices will cost 1½ million and tuition is to be raised. The College has granted mineral exploration rights to two Canadian firms on 512 acres in West Corinth, Vt., where they hope to discover copper. Since its present price is about 70 cents per pound, this could prove a bonanza.

While in Clearwater, I visited with a few Dartmouth oldtimers. John Hinman '08, who received an honorary degree from the College in 1957, has built the International Paper Company into a world-wide organization. He is the last of four brothers and is 88 years old. He and Burritt '04 married sisters, the daughters of Pitt Drew '99. The girls are still in good health and active. John's most widely-used product is the milk carton of which over one billion have been sold.

And Andrew Scarlett '10 is one of Dartmouth's dearly loved and respected emeriti, a former professor of chemistry. He is now living in Horizon House in Clearwater, not well but with still plenty of N.H. granite in his veins. Keeping him posted on college news are his 1910 classmates Bankhart Kendall, and Lord.

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