1921

President Kemeny has just announced that the Dartmouth Medical School has been notified of a gift of $1 million to the school, to establish a professorship in internal medicine. The gift will be named in honor of the late Eugene W. Leonard, a prominent banker in the Twin Cities and a resident of Minneapolis, who died in 1972.

A letter from Bill Fowler comments on his Shakespearian researches.

Daniel Kavanaugh of Jamesburg, N.J., tells of his and his wife Elizabeth's activity and great interest in the Interfaith Council of Rossmoor. Dan is a past president of the group and at its annual meeting this past May, he was also a member of the mixed chorus.

A thoughtful note from Werner Janssen mentions his envy of those of us who are living in or near Hanover and his love for New Hampshire. Werner expressed his hopes, and his intentions, of visiting the area again in the near future. We have newspaper clippings reporting the death of Walt Prince's wife Joyce. They were at our class gatherings last fall, and we remember her as being quite a remarkable person. She was born in England, her father having been professor of anthropology at Oxford University. Joyce's first husband was a British naval officer who lost his life in the Pacific theater in World War 11. At Oxford, Joyce had majored in English, and she was also known as a brilliant mathematician. She and Walt had over 30 years of happy companionship, and she will be greatly missed.

John Fitzgibbon recently produced some odds and ends of news of himself. We remember him as an unusually able pianist. During our undergraduate years he and your class secretary, with two or three others, roamed around this area producing music — as we called it, anyway — for dances in the Lebanon, Windsor, and Claremont areas. After Dartmouth, Fitz put in a couple of years with a musical group on a Munson Line ship; then he went into the lumber business, where he remained for some 30 or 40 years until he reached retirement. He now makes his home in Westport, Conn.

Unfortunately our allowed space for this column is extremely limited because there is a great deal of fascinating background we would like to produce in capsule form of various classmates. Nelson Lee Smith, the class treasurer, is one of these. His life, since leaving college, is a storybook one if there ever was such. A Dartmouth and Columbia professor, truly a brilliant scholar, he was taken out of teaching to serve the federal government. We'll concentrate further on Nelson one of these days.

We will be on deck with you next month with more up-to-date news, including of the fall reunion on September-21 and 22.

It was a good excuse for a salty crew of Dartmouth alumni on Nantucket to gatherfor luncheon when Orton Hicks '21 traveled to the island on College business lastJune. From the left are Hicks and some of the dozen islanders at the luncheon:Robert Leske '41, owner of Captain Tobey's Chowder House and host of the affair,Professor of Spanish Emeritus Joseph Folger '21, and his son E. Allen Folger '51.

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