Happy Hundredth!

Acouple of weeks ago, January 12 to be exact, Arthur Hardy Lord '10 celebrated his hundredth birthday in a nursing home in Pomona, Calif., where he says he is being well taken care of. He reads the Alumni Magazine regularly and acknowledges that there are incomparable differences between the Dartmouth he knew at the beginning of this century and the College that exists today. That is not to say he is a pessimist. On the contrary, he remains quite optimistic about his alma mater.

Arthur Lord is not Dartmouth's oldest living alumnus. Alumni Records shows that that honor falls to Guy C. Blodgett '08, of Berkeley Heights, N.J., who is 104. Then there's Reginald Colley '09, who will be 102 in May, as will Hazcn Jones '10. Fred Golde '11, Lewis Dillingham 'l4, and James Keyhayas 14 are already 100.

But Arthur Lord seems to stand out a bit, since his Dartmouth roots go back to 1801 when his greatgreat-uncle William Allen Hayes entered the freshman class. Arthur's grandfather John K. Lord, the son of Dartmouth's sixth president, Nathan Lord, was in the class of 1836. Arthur's father, also John K. Lord, was a member of the class of 1868, taught Latin at the College for nearly 50 years and was Daniel Webster Professor of Latin 1892-16, was acting president of the College 1892-93, and a Trustee 1917 26. There were a lot of other Dartmouth Lords as well. Arthur himself was a Phi Beta Kappa who earned a master's at Harvard and, among other endeavors, co-authored "Dr. Tucker's Dartmouth," published in 1965. His sister Laura celebrated her 109 th birthday last November in Northampton, Mass. Give a rouse, a hundred times over.