1911

Upon entering this new year and new decade, Ed Poole became the first of six eligible members of the class to reach the distinguished age of 90, on January 27. The remaining five are due to attain that status between March and July.

In his Christmas card, True Dudley reported that he is in his 92nd year and has not had a doctor since 1973. Congratulations and more power to you, True, but keep your fingers crossed and knock on wood!

Don Cheney forwarded a letter received from Cora (Mrs. Ernest E.) Morrill in late November. She wrote, "Four years is such a long time not to have written you, but such a short time in which to accomplish all that one would wish or like to do. It is good, at 86, to find opportunities for travel, study, and service." The letter is too long to quote in full, but she told of the late Ernest's two sons. Jim is a retired Army chaplain living in California, where he and his wife are active in church, community, and family affairs. Douglas is a professor at Centenary College in Louisiana, where Cora visited him and his wife last year before going to Chicago to spend time with her own son and family. In conclusion, she wrote that "the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE gives me hours of pleasure, and I thank you for it."

In late January the Boston area has established an all-time record low of 2.6 inches of snow for a winter season to date. Since the first snow of this unusual season arrived prematurely on October 10 and threatened to disrupt the first game of the 1979 World Series, it is difficult to speculate what antics nature will have devised to commemorate the upcoming Olympic winter sports program at Lake Placid in February.

My sincere thanks and appreciation for the greetings and good will messages at Christmas time.

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