1924

DAM has received the following information about Maurice Cate from his daughter, Carolyn Carruth. "He was bom November 30, 1902, in Dover, New Hampshire in a family whose genealogy is traced to the Cate Garrison of 1720. Entering Dartmouth in 1920, he graduated class of' 24 and Tuck '25, with recreational interests in hiking and skiing. He often recalls how he and his roommate would strap on their skies on the top landing of their resident house and ski down two flights of stairs before hitting the snow. He was also very fond of Room 1 Fayerweather Hall, where he lived his first three years. He worked for, and then bought, his fathers well-established furniture business. In 1940 he built a new store building on the foundation of a large 1880 mill structure that remains today the center of his home town of Dover.

"He spent most winters after retirement in their home in Placida, Florida, returning each summer to Ossipee Lake as he had since birth. His adult passion was exploring the highways and canyons of the West from Canada to Mexico City and Acapulco, from the bottom of the Grand Canyon to New Hampshire's peaks, which he knew like the back of his hand. One two-month trip to Europe was enough, but there never was too much of Mexico from behind the driver's seat of his cars or of this country, which he crossed many times from all directions after 1926.

"Widowed after 53 years of marriage to Pat Cate, Maurice now is in residence at Wheelock Terrace in Hanover. Still in excellent health but hard of hearing, he looks forward to visits from two daughters and perusing photo albums they have put together filled with the enlargements of his life in a chronological order that continues to tie each to a sense of what life is and ever will be."