CLASS OF 1862

The fiftieth anniversary of this class will be observed by a reunion at Hanover on June 24. The responses to the preliminary notice sent to all survivors of the class have been numerous and favorable, and a large attendance is confidently expected.

Thomas Noyes Chase died April 23 at the home of his son-in-law, Dr. Edward Kirkland, in Bellows Falls, Vt. He was a son of Samuel Sewall and Eunice Noyes (Colby) Chase, and was born at West Newbury, Mass., July 18, 1838. Charles P. Chase '69, treasurer of the College, is a younger brother. He fitted at Thetford (Vt.) Academy, and took the earlier part of his college course at Amherst. He w.as a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. ' For two years after graduation he was principal of the academy at Royalton, Vt. From 1864 to 1869 he was in Washington, D. C., first as city missionary for a few months, then as clerk in the Post-office Department, teaching private pupils at the same time and studying theology. In 1869 he began his principal life work in connection with Atlanta University, Georgia, which was then just opening its doors for the higher education of colored young men and women. For nineteen years he was professor, successively, of Greek, mathematics, and Latin, and for twenty-eight years was a member of the board of trustees, serving the board, at various times as treasurer and secretary. He possessed unusual gifts as a teacher, and at the same time his business ability contributed greatly to the material development of the institution. He was several times granted leave of absence for a year or more for service in other directions. During these successive absences, he served for a year in connection with the Indian agency at Green Bay, Wis.; he made a tour of inspection to the Mendi mission on the west coast of Africa; he superintended the erection of buildings for colored schools in Nashville and Mobile; and for two years was principal of the Burrell School in Selma, Ala. In 1888 he relinquished his teaching work at Atlanta, and during the following six years resided in Denver, Colo., Selma, Ala., Washington, D. C., and Bellows Falls, Vt. But in 1895, after the death of the dean of the University, he was recalled to Atlanta to take his place, which he filled for two years. After this, with one brief interruption, he continued his teaching at the University till 1907, when because of failing eyesight he was compelled to relinquish it. He was then retired on the Carnegie Foundation, being the first one to receive that honor in the state of Georgia. Professor Chase was married August 1, 1862, to Mary Maria Tuttle of Acton, Mass., who died March 23, 1900. A daughter and a son survive them, another son having-dred in infancy. Subsequently he married Miss Helen E. Walsh of Stamford, Conn., with whom he had been associated in work at Atlanta, and who has tenderly cared for her husband during his recent years of invalidism, during which they had traveled in this country and in Europe. Few men have wrought so long and so successfully as Professor Chase for the education and .uplifting of the negro race.

Acting Secretary, Luther W. Emerson, 206 Broadway, New York