1911

theis year it iS important to help John Learoyd in his effort to make the 60th anniversary of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund a success for 1911. Ech gift is important.

The transcription of the almost illegible Occom diary Which 1911 contributed $250 from the Class Teasury has been completed and as a courtesy to Doutch Waterbury Baker Library cade a Xerox COPy for him. providing it with their compliments. Dutch is continuing his research for his project, a narrative novel about Occom. The matter of recognition and maintenance of the Occom gravesite is still under consideration by the College.

Word has just been received that Sarge Eaton passed away in Bridgeport, Conn., during the last week in January. The family suggested in lieu of flowers that donations in memory of Sarge be sent to the Bridgeport Hospital Development Fund, Grant Street, Bridgeport, Conn. An obituary appears in this or a later issue of the Alumni Magazine.

Spim Norris wrote about a grandson, Andrew Breen, who has applied for entrance to Dartmouth. An excellent scholar and a good athlete, co-captain of his basketball team and on the soccer team. We leaned on the Director of Admissions in his behalf.

Both Bill Gooding and Sam Pickering were hospitalized at the turn of the year. Dorothy wrote January 11 that Bill was home, son John had returned to North Carolina, and Bill and she were amazed at how much he could do. Elsie Pickering wrote that Sam is doing very well after suffering a slight stroke. He expected to transfer to Greenbriar Nursing Home when there is a vacancy. Sam has been his usual cheerful self, therapy is doing a lot for him. Cheers and best wishes for both of them.

Johnny Coggins reported in January that the McQuesten, Thurber and French widows were doing well in the Nashua-Hudson area of New Hampshire. The girls are doing better than the men in the last stages, it seems.

Ken Clark met Sig Larmon on that cruise to the West Indies. He was enthralled with the possibilities of winter vacations there and a probable location for 1911's 65th Reunion. Your secretary took a 34-day cruise down the Windward and Leeward Islands to Georgetown, British Guiana 40 years ago with son Jack age 9. Cost round-trip $300 for both on the Canadian National "Lady Drake" later torpedoed off England.

The Downtown Kiwanis Club of Orlando had a dinner December 4, 1973 honoring Judge Donald Cheney and 75 area eagle scouts. Judge Cheney has the distinction of being the first scoutmaster in Florida and he set up and organized Florida's first juvenile court system. He established the Orlando recreation department. He helped found the Park Lake Presbyterian Church. He is currently an elder of the church and serves on the Rollins College Board of Trustees. All that and an excellent picture of "Don"on the front page of an elaborate program. He must have found that fountain Ponce de Leon was seeking.

The Rev. Ernie Morrill writes that Cora was home from the hospital early in January and on the road to full recovery from a serious operation on her feet. So Ernie's frustrating ordeal with housekeeping under the burden of Parkinson's disease is over we hope for a number of years.

Hillis G. Zapletal, granddaughter of GeorgeMorris, is back from Czechoslovakia with her husband, a Czech engineer in metallurgy, and is now living in the Hanover area.

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