1916

There has been a lot of news about a test-tube baby. How about the other end of the life span - those of us in the "test-tube" age level? Letters to the secretary bring a stream of reports about tests taken, hospital visits for examinations, and another batch of Medicare B forms to be filled out. We, too, are certainly the "test-tube" generation.

Our hats are off to Dan Dinsmoor for leading us to a grand total of 520,756 as our share in the 1978 Alumni Fund. This total was made by 52 of our living members and those most loyal ladies of 1916. Dan wants to thank all of you, especially the men who made the contacts Hugo Gumbart, Dan Lindsley, Ev Parker,Ralph Parker, Jim Shanahan, and DaveShumway.

The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray, and it just so happened that the caption above that grand 1916 Freshman picture that appeared in the June issue was a bit off on the time shown. The caption read "Eleven o'clock on the morning of May 23, 1913." Dick Parkhurst sends the correction that it was just after daylight. Regardless of the time, it was a great event - a harbinger of the many things to come from the Class of 1916 to its alma mater.

Our ever-busy George Paine sends the news about a new electronic machine that monitors the intravenous fluids and blood used for burn patients. It was developed by his grandson Patrick McLainon. On his way to his Gypsy Camp near Meridith, N.H., he stopped by to do some research at the Dartmouth Medical School Library and to present to Baker Library a copy of The Administration of President Harding, of which another grandson, David Wilson helped in the compilation.

Dan Dinsmoor says he thinks he is the first 1916er to have a granddaughter graduate from Dartmouth. Mara Jean Dinsmoor graduated magna cum laude. She is now attending Indiana University Medical School.

In a letter to Ev Parker from Allan Dingwall, son of Jib Dingwall, we learn how the memorial fund received at the time of Jib's death was used. Jib was very fond of music and Paul Zeller, director of the Dartmouth Glee Club. As a tribute to Paul, the fund paid for four professional singers in a performance last May of the Beethoven Ninth.

News we do not like to tell is herewith given. June was a sad month for the Class, which lost Fred Bailey on June 15 and Frank Bobst on June 29. To their wives and families go our sympathy. In this or a future issue obituaries of these two classmates will appear.

Our sympathy goes to Ralph George, whose wife Ruth died in July. A card received from Hanover brings news of the death of Ray DeVoe's widow Dorothy.

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