1939

On June 2 we lost Harold "Robie" Robinson of Mendocino, Calif., to cancer. Robie comes from a Green family, having a father, brother, and daughter all fellow graduates from Dartmouth. (Obituary will appear in a later edition.)

The Bob Davidsons, taking time this summer from their usual travels, renewed acquaintances with various branches of their family. First off, they tended out on three grands in their Dayton digs before setting sail for Maine to see another branch. They caught up with son Roger and family from Boulder, Colo., who were vacationing in York Beach, Maine. We had but one visit with the Davey clan at our quarters nearby in York Harbor, and expected more, but the tides of granddaughters, one at Biddeford working at Ogunquit, and one baby-sitting at Cape Elizabeth, pulled us in different directions. After a week they proceeded to Phillips, Maine, to catch up with daughter Anby. Bob and Cocky expect to be riding a bus through eastern Europe about the time you read this. Perhaps recuperation? A note from Howe Snyder reports, "I don't see many classmates in this part of California (Chico) and circumstances prevent me from getting to San Francisco to be part of the Northern California Alumni Group. I did have a chance to lunch with Clem Burnap when he was putting on a seminar here with a bunch of State Farm insurance salesmen. I'm sorry to have missed the 50th last June. My wife has had a bad case of Parkinson's disease for the past four years so I can't get very far from home."

We were turned down by our DAM editors on a nostalgic piece on Dick Storrs, M.D. and Chemist Jim Corner, so we'll publish the highlights here and now. In comparing notes at our 50th last June they both recalled with exceptional fondess annual visits made to relatives in Hanover during their youth. Jim came down from Canada to stay with Dr. Percy Bartlett, the husband of his mother's eldest sister. The

good doctor was the premier bone-setter in the Upper Valley in those days. He made his calls by horse and buggy, was a co-founder of the Hitchcock Clinic, and a member of the faculty of the Dartmouth Medical School. He was fondly remembered by Dick Storr's Dad who studied under him during intern years circa 1910-12.

The Storrs family had deeper roots. Dick remembers lively times with multiple relatives, including cousin Phoebe whose family continues to run the Dartmouth Bookstore which his grandfather, Edward P. Storrs, founded around 1880.

It was Dick's great-great-grandfather, Joseph Storrs, who held the first meeting of the town of Hanover, N.H., at his home in Mansfield, Conn., in 1761. He gave 110 acres of land to Dartmouth College which was one of the compelling reasons that Eleazar Wheelock situated the College in its current location.

Both Jim and Dick confess that a return trip to Hanover today excites them almost as much as it did in their youth, a sure sign of graceful aging.

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