CLASS OF 1913

Frederick Sailly Piatt, Jr., died at the hospital in Rutland, Vt., Saturday night, January 10. On the third of January, Piatt was hunting rabbits not far from his home, and was shot by the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of a companion, the charge striking a. gold watch and driving it into his body, tearing a large hole in his hip. He was taken at once to the hospital, where the watch was removed. He was apparentlymaking a good recovery until Saturday afternoon, when pulmonary thrombosis set m with fatal result.

Piatt was born in Poultney, Vt., May 10, 1890, his parents being Frederick Sailly and Clara E. (Badger) Piatt. His father, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1874, is a lawyer by profession and now clerk of the United States District Court of Vermont. The home of the family has been in Rutland for the past six years, and his college preparation was made in the high schools of Poultney and Rutland. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, graduating with honors in scholarship. He had been at home in Rutland since Commencement, and coached the high school football team in the fall, and was intending soon to leave home to take' a position.