CLASS OF 1887

Owing to the war, arrangements for an elaborate reunion were abandoned, but the attendance was all that could be expected and the occasion fully successful.

South Fayerweather Hall was assigned as class headquarters, and arrivals were earlier than usual, so that by Sunday there was a very full attendance.

A lawn party at Dr. Gile's was scheduled for Sunday afternoon, but owing to the inclement weather the class with wives and children were entertained indoors. In the spacious living room before an open fire of blazing logs, an anomaly in June, bountiful refreshments were served by Dr. Gile and his fine family. Their commodious home welcomed the largest '87 family group ever gathered in a private house.

The quiet enjoyment of that Sunday afternoon, the banquet Monday night, the long evening hours spent by the men assembled in the rooms of Knight and Howland or Carpenter, the stories of Knight, the reminiscent conversation, the jests, the more serious discussion of the problems of the war and of the College, the diminished Commencement attendance, the sprinkling of navy blue and khaki in our own '87 group, as elsewhere, are the remembrances which those fortunate in their attendance carried way from Hanover as reminders of our reunion held in time of war.

The roster of those present in order of registration follows: Emerson Rice and wife, Hyde Park, Mass.; Winfred S. Ross, Somersworth, N. H.; Henry O. Cushman, Esq., Boston, Mass.; Dr. Alexander Quackenboss, Boston, Mass.; Fred A. Fernald, Esq., Boston, Mass.; Albert E. Hadlock, Esq., Mrs. Hadlock, Albert E. Hadlock, Jr., and Canfield Hadlock, all of New York city; D. Waldo White, Concord, N. H.; J. M. Blakey, Mrs. Blakey, and Wallace Blakey, all of Nashua, N. H.; Chas. L. Carpenter, Mrs. Carpenter, T. R. Carpenter, 1920, and Chas. C. Carpenter, all of Central Aguirre, Porto Rico; E. W. Knight, Esq., Charleston, W. Va.; Prof. F. B. Sanborn, Mrs. Sanborn, and Ralph Sanborn, 1917, all of Cambridge, Mass.; Edward B. Hale, Esq., and daughter Florence Hale of Jamaica Plain, Boston; Prof, and Mrs. Fred P. Emery of Hanover; Fred A. Howland, Esq., Montpelier, Vt.; Fred W. Wentworth and Mrs. Wentworth of Paterson, N. J.; Chas. F. Conn, Philadelphia, Pa.; Prof. Geo. E. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass.; Chas. C. Gardner, Kirksville, Mo.; Rev. Samuel C. Bartlett, Peacedale, R. I.; Judge George H. Bingham, Geo. H. Bingham, Jr., and Robt. Bingham," Manchester, N. H.; James B. Wallace, Esq., Canaan, N. H.; Eugene S. Head, Hooksett, N. H.; H. E. Gage and Mrs. Gage, Wellesley, Mass.; Dr. John M. Gile, Mrs. Gile, John F. Gile, '16, Madelaine Gile, and Dorothy Gile of Hanover; Walter E. Kittredge, Esq., Nashua, N. H.; and Wilder D. Quint of Boston, Mass., — a total of 25 graduates and non-graduates, ten wives, and twelve children.

Carpenter from Porto Rico and Gardner from Missouri came from the greatest distance; the two resident members of the class, Professors Gile and Emery, and their families, have always been a factor in the success of our reunions.

The class banquet was held Monday evening at the Commons, with an attendance of twenty. Eugene Head, the only non-graduate present, arrived after the banquet and renewed his acquaintance with the class after an absence of 33 years.

At the Phi Beta Kappa annual meeting, Prof. F. P. Emery was elected president for the ensuing year.

President E. W. Knight presided at the annual meeting of the Alumni Association and at the Commencement banquet. Prof. John M. Gile was re-elected trustee for a term of five years. Judge George H. Bingham, justice of the Federal Circuit Court, received from the college the degree of Doctor of Laws, and Wilder D. Quint of the Boston Post, the degree of Master of Arts.

The class cup for attendance was awarded to the class a second time. The reunion arrangements were in charge of a committee headed by E. W. Knight, Esq., of Charleston, W. Va.