1916

Four '16ers were awarded pewter replicas of the Paul Revere bowl in commemoration of their generosity to the College for their 60 consecutive yearly gifts to the Alumni Fund; Daniel S. Dinsmoor, S. Wilcox Harvey, Russell H. Leavitt, and H. Clifford Bean. Since both Cliff Bean and Russ Leavitt died before the award. Cliff Bean's was sent to his daughter, Hope J. B. Reason of Glen Ellen, Calif., and Russ Leavitt's was sent to his widow Edith in Deland, Fla.

Another granddaughter goes to Dartmouth. Mary Fairbanks, granddaughter Ken and Mary Ross, has been accepted for the Class of 1983. We are delighted. Congratulations to both Marys.

Echos from last summer and last fall bring two news items: First, with their love of music, Paul and Margaret Wadleigh traveled to New York City and San Francisco to enjoy operas and chamber music recitals. Paul is still working at his most interesting avocation, reverse painting on glass. Second, in lieu of being able to get any Dartmouth football games on their southern television, Roy Burghardt got up to Asheville, where he and Dave Shumway watched Alabama win over Oklahoma. Roy admits that he likes to read but that there is a limit and as a change and relaxation turns to crocheting and the making of an afghan.

Bill and Alice Biel were in Hanover at the Inn, and Bill's letter commented on Hanover's beautiful and brilliant fall foliage and the inspiring presence of women on the campus.

From Munich Germany, Freddy Frederiksen sends this bit of Dartmouth history about Reverend John E. Johnson, whom we adopted as a member of 1916. Johnny Johnson had a special interest in the Dartmouth Outing Club in those early years when the Club was just getting started. He provided the materials for a new cabin on Mount Moosilauke, the work to be done by students. Freddy continues, "During Easter vacation a group of us spent a week there camping in the old cabin while we were building the new one. Johnny was there, too. He was an unassuming man and as lively as a cricket. He was especially devoted to the fireplace, and when we could not find him, all we had to do was to look in the fireplace, and there he was looking up the chimney. With all his generosity, he was no spendthrift. He bought the food, and it is my impression that we lived mostly off cornmeal mush. At the end of the tour he solemnly presented each of us with a ten-cent black string tie as a memento. He was a lot of fun and the cabin was a great success." Thus another chapter was added to the history of the Dartmouth Outing Club.

In the passing of Cliff Bean and Russ Leavitt we are reminded of how these two men devoted their lives to people although in quite different areas: Cliff in personnel at Filene's in Boston and Russ for 30 years in the New Hampshire Department of Education.

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