1914

Fall and football and this year is the 100th anniversary of football at Dartmouth. The 25th Ivy League season takes the team to William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., for the first time and brings both Harvard and Yale to Hanover for the first combined appearance in modern times. The Boston alumni will have a bus to the Harvard game. It is a most comfortable trip up and back, as your secretary well knows from two previous years. Lay and RuthLittle from nearby Plainfield will doubtless represent the Class at various games. Ruth is keeping in touch with 68 widows, and from some of them we hope to get some interesting comments.

From Hanover we have the information that Frank Donovan visited in August on a trip east from Palm Springs, Calif. During his stay he met with College officials regarding the fine life income trust which he established in 1976. We are saddened to learn that his wife Gretchen passed away in May following a lengthy illness. They both came east for the reunion in 1979.

A nice letter came from Alan Overton, in which he recalled his athletic days as a football, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, skiing, and skating enthusiast; now he exercises with a cane. He served overseas in World War I as a captain and battalion adjutant. On his return he joined a paper company and managed plants in various locations for 26 years. Thereafter he operated a retail lumber and building materials business in Terre Haute for more than a quarter of a century. He is now retired in Winter Park, Fla. His wife died after 52 years of happy marriage.

The Alumni Records office advises that Mrs.Everett Barnard died last April in Lexington, Mass.

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