CLASS OF 1879

Alonzo Ezra Kenaston died of acute indigestion May 9, 1910, at his home in Hastings, Mich. He was born in Calais, Vt., November 8, 1856, his parents being Ezra and Sarah (Fling) Kenaston. He fitted for college at Montpelier Seminary, being largely dependent on his own work for support during his preparatory and college course. His college fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon. After graduation he taught for a short time at Cabot, Vt., and then for a year at. Huntington, Ind. In 1881 he went to Hastings as teacher and law student, and remained there, being admitted to the bar in November, 1882, and beginning practice the following May. He was successful in practice, and in real estate business, to which he had latterly devoted much of his time. He was mayor of Hastings from 1892 to 1896, had been county attorney, and was a leader in politics and business and in the growth of the city. He was a Christian gentleman of stanch integrity, with unblemished public and private life. May 18, 1887, he was married to Eva C. Nevins of Hastings. She survives, with a son, another child being no longer living.

Mrs. Laura (Chamberlain) Conant, wife of Professor Levi L. Conant of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, died in Worcester early in February. She was a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College in the class of 1876.

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