1913

Bob Conant recalls his trying experience as college registrar at the time of the Dartmouth Hall fire in 1935:

"So many of the classrooms, in addition to fire damage, suffered from smoke and water that the use of the building was completely out of the question. Late in the forenoon of the morning following the fire I went at the task of relocating the classes which had been scheduled for Dartmouth Hall to see what could be done. This involved juggling some of the rooms in other recitation buildings - but not the time of the courses.

"Late that afternoon the registrar's office succeeded in relocating the classes and by the time the Nugget Theater opened for the first movie at 6:30 p.m. we had a new schedule prepared for showing on the screen - repeated on the second show. So the students lost one day of classes only because of the fire. Oh yes, we had the press on Allen Street print up a large number of the revised 'time tables' placed at the bookstore and the registrar's office, just in case they were needed.

"The students were disappointed that there was such a brief vacation but the members of the faculty were most appreciative of our efforts and we felt that our endeavors were well worth while."

A note from Nita Semmes (Mrs. Harry H.) to Mildred Conant reports that her grandson Billy has been accepted at Dartmouth. We are delighted that a grandson of our honored, former classmate, Chippy Semmes, will follow in his grandfather's footsteps in Hanover.

Cap Avery wonders if you remember how Dean Emerson in his welcoming address to our Class told us we were the largest class ever to enter Dartmouth as the total enrollment was limited to 1,000.

"What would he have said if someone had whispered in his ear that the day would dawn when 278 fair damsels would matriculate and the total freshman enrollment would be 1059?

"What good days were those! We learned so many things that were so and, forgive me, so many things that were not so, such as that there would be no more wars - the world had become too well educated and enlightened for that. The United States could become Utopia if more college men were in politics. (No comment)."

Dot (Catterall) Colchester and her husband still enjoy "going places". Last fall they took a trip to San Francisco and then to Arizona to spend Thanksgiving with friends.

Jessie Kilbourn (Mrs. Albert S.) is in Florida again this winter with an elderly couple helping to care for the wife who is partially paralyzed. While there she hopes to take a cruise or a trip to Mexico - and then back to Hanover for Alumni College in August. Jessie is sometimes called upon to stay with families while the parents are on vacation. Last year she helped a friend in Davenport, lowa, who was recovering from surgery and later spent some time with another friend in Des Moines who had a broken knee. Jessie seems much like the loveable cartoon character, "Mary Worth," who is always glad to help anyone in need of a friend.

Secretary, R.F.D. #3 Newfoundland, N.J. 07435

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