1913

How many of you watched while our boy, Jim Beattle, held the vaunted Kansas City Royals to one run during the first five innings of the first game of the American League opener early in October?

Fred Page reports that his main activities are to sit in an easy chair, read, and do crossword puzzles. But that's not so bad at four-score years and nine. Very few of us who shook hands with Dartmouth's first dean, Charles Francis Emerson, on a September day in 1909 are still able to enjoy the leisure of retirement.

Reiya Shepard reports that her and Bart's granddaughter, Betsy Jane Sherman (a Wellesley graduate), is the wife of Scott Neslin. who is now a member of the Tuck School faculty. Scott is a graduate of Cornell and the Sloan School of Business Administration. Betsy will be a candidate for a law degree at the Vermont Law School.

The Massachusetts House of Representatives, abetted by a host of his former players, gave Dave Morey a testimonial dinner in recognition of his many years as coach of football. An item in the press (publisher unknown to your editor) reported that Dave was a twotime all American halfback at Dartmouth and that after graduation he remained at his alma mater as assistant coach for two years, then went to Bates as head coach for ten years, to Middlebury for five, and then to Fordham, Alabama Polytech, and Lowell Tech. And while most of us were sitting by the fire or playing golf in Florida, he coached at Wilbraham Academy and Maiden High School, for a grand total of 45 years - in recognition of which he received the coveted Gridiron Club Award.

Your scribe is proof of the fact that a 90th birthday can be not only enjoyable, but profitable. Pinkerton Academy, his alma mater (where he has served as trustee for 28 years), gave him a testimonial dinner and a color television set; and the College of Forestry, where he spent 32 years telling embryo foresters how they could tell a white pine tree from a chipmunk, sent out word to his former students that a letter would be a means of cheering an old man in his dotage. Sixty responded, and the bound volume came by mail on the appointed day.

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