In May of 1917, the Amherst College Board of Trustees voted unanimously to grant David Peck Todd an “indefinite leave of absence.” David’s behavior had become so erratic -and so troubling – that Amherst College President Alexander Miekeljohn wrote to Millicent informing her that her parents needed to pack up and vacate Observatory House, a college-owned property. It’s now been a century since the Todds left Amherst and all it had meant to them. But their influence in the town, and at the college, lives on in many ways.