CLASS OF 1878

Walter Leonard Brown died at his home in Dorchester, Mass., September 15, of pneumonia. Mr. Brown was born May 9, 1857, at Penacook, N. H.; fitted for college at Penacook Academy; graduated from the scientific course, then known as the Chandler Scientific Department, and engaged in manufacturing business, first at Richford, Vt., later at Penacook, and then for some years at St. Louis, Mo. For the past ten years he has been employed as an accountant in Boston, and has resided in Dorchester. He was married in 1879 to Miss Minnie C. Gould of Winchester, N. H., who, with two daughters, Dora (born in 1882), and Gertrude (1884), survives him. Classmates Gerould, Dodd, and Huntington Smith attended the funeral.

Dr. Charles Solomon Caverly, professor of hygiene in the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and since 1891 president of the Vermont State Board of Health, died on October 16 at his home in Rutland.

Dr. Caverly was born in Troy, N. H., September 30, 1856, son of Dr. Abial M. and Sarah L. (Goddard) Caverly. He began preparation for college at Brandon High School and finished at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. After graduation he entered Vermont College of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1881, and after a year and a half , of further study in New York city, began in 1883 the practice of his profession at Rutland, where he has since resided, making a specialty of diseases of the throat and lungs. He soon became recognized as a leading physician, serving as director and as attending physician of the Rutland Hospital and as consulting physician of the Proctor Hospital. He became a member of the State Board of Health in 1890. As its president he was a most vigilant and aggressive health officer, enlisting the state early in the crusade against tuberculosis; instrumental in the establishment of the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, of which he became a trustee; active in the movement for medical inspection of schools; prompt himself to investigate the sources and means of transmission of the scourge of infantile paralysis which visited Vermont, and to procure the best obtainable assistance in contending with that dread disease. When the epidemic of influenza struck the state, although in impaired health, Dr. Caverly set resolutely and promptly about organizing the defensive campaign. In so doing, he contracted the disease, and so fell before the enemy against which he was leading the forces of the state. On all these matters he was a frequent and welcome contributor to medical societies and journals. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Vermont State Medical Society (of which he had been president), and of the American Public Health Association. In politics he was a Republican and in his religious affiliations a Congregationalist. He was a member of the Rutland Country Club and of the Masonic fraternity. He married, on November 4, 1885, Mabel A. Tuttle of Rutland.

The death of their only son, Hartley Tuttle Caverly (Dartmouth 1909), then a student at the Medical School of Johns Hopkins University, occurring while Dr. and Mrs. Caverly were abroad, brought a deep and lasting sorrow. Mrs. Caverly alone survives.

Dr. Caverly was a most loyal classmate, always present if possible at class and college functions, going out of his way to call upon or gain information about members of the class who were unable to attend. He grew from year to year in the affection of his classmates, as he did in their admiration.

He will be greatly missed at future reunions, and the little group who gathered for their fortieth anniversary in this year so inauspicious for reunions, will remember with satisfaction that they availed themselves of this last opportunity to exchange hearty greetings with him.