CLASS OF 1875

The eldest daughter of Frederick H. Crafts (Lilian L.) has been taking a graduate course at Columbia College, and received her master's degree there this summer. She is an A.B. of Rochester University in the class of 1906, and won there a graduate scholarship. Harold L. Crafts, the next in the family, has been studying at the University of Michigan three years in the engineering department, while their sister, Mabel Elizabeth, is . just ready for college.

Charles A. Rich, the well-known architect, has recently made the plans for a new and important dormitory building for Amherst College.

Dr. George Dana Towne died at his summer home in Dunbarton, N. H„ September 11, death being caused by apoplexy. Dr. Towne was born in Manchester, N. H, January 12, 1854, and prepared for college in the schools of his native city, taking in college the course of the Chandler Scientific Department. His parents were Daniel Dana and Betsey Dana (Robinson) Towne. Upon graduation he continued the study of medicine which he had already begun, and obtained his medical degree from the University of New York in 1878. He began practice at once in Manchester, and continued there through life. He had distinguished himself as a physician and surgeon, and had held the offices of president of the state surgical club and of the New Hampshire Medical Society. He was a member of the Legal Medical Society of New York. He had served for twenty-five years as a member of the school board of Manchester and for many years as trustee of the State Normal School, and was an influential and progressive member of both boards. He was a member of the Masonic order, being a Knight Templar and a Mystic Shriner. Dr. Towne was married June 28, 1904, to Mrs. Elizabeth A. (French) Means of Manchester, who survives her husband.

Secretary, Henry W. Stevens, Concord, N. H.