CLASS OF 1879

Dr. Alfred Matthias Spalding died at Speonk, Long Island, January 3, 1910. Doctor Spalding was born in Greenup, Ky., April 13, 1857. His father, of an old New Hampshire family, was for many years a prominent physician in Kentucky, dying about the time of his son's graduation from College. The son came North for his education, and was fitted at the high school of Nashua, N. H. In College he became a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. His medical studies were pursued at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, where he obtained his medical degree in 1883. After practicing for a short time in Pepperell, Mass., and Nashua, N. H., he returned to New York, where he remained in the practice of his profession until the year before his death, when on account of ill health he removed to Long Island. For some years he was associated with his brother, Dr. George A. Spalding, as visiting physician to the House of Refuge, and afterwards from 1894 till its removal to Dobbs Ferry, in 1905, he was attending physician to the New York Juvenile Asylum. That he was eminently successful in this work is shown by the fact that the number of deaths during his care of the thousand children in the institution averaged only one. a year. He was both wise and independent, believing in simple methods as far as possible. Especially was this true of his treatment of pneumonia, of which he never lost a case, and the drug bill was smaller than in any similar institution of its size during his administration. He was one of the first physicians to care for the diseases of the eye so prevalent in such asylums. He operated for trachoma with the use of cocaine when other surgeons were using ether, saving much discomfort and trouble to both patients and nurses. These simple and direct methods characterized his work among his private patients. His perfect sincerity won their confidence, and his courtesy and unselfish devotion to their true interests, their warm affection and esteem. Doctor Spalding leaves a widow and a daughter.

Charles F. Chapman, treasurer of the Ottauquechee Savings Bank of Woodstock, Vt., was elected president of the Vermont State Bankers' Association at its recent annual meeting.

Secretary Charles C. Davis, Winchester, N. H.