CLASS OF 1899

W. B. Adams, Allen, Atwood, Beal, Barney, N. P. Brown, Clark, C. W. Robie, guest, Donahue, Drew, W. R. Eastman, Hawkes, Dr. T. R. Healy '99 Med., Hobbs, Hodgkins, Mr. Homer, guest, Huckins, Lynch, Osgood, Capt. Charles W. Pease '99 Med., Silver '21, were at the '99 tables, and Mrs. Atwood, Beal, Barney, Donahue, W. R. Eastman, Hobbs, Huckins, were among those in the gallery at the big Boston dinner February 15.

L. P. Benezet attended the meeting of the National Educational Association at Atlantic City.

N. P. Brown was appointed judge of the Superior Court by Governor McCall of Massachusetts on February 20, and "a few of the friends (among them the '99 lawyers) of the Honorable Nelson P. Brown" tendered him an informal reception and dinner at the City Club on Friday, March 8.

C. H. Donahue has been appointed assistant government appeal agent for Division 20 of the City of Boston on matters pertaining to the draft questionnaire. On February 9 he spoke before the Women's Club of Milford, N. H., upon "The Law and Woman."

G. H. Evans has been helping to organize and establish the camp library at Ayer upon proper library lines.

Capt. G. H. Gerould is connected with the Trench Warfare Section of the Engineering Bureau, and is now located with an office in the Ford Building, corner Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street, Washington. His telephone branch is 516. Residence still, 1728 20th Street, N.W.

W. C. Kendall on February 1 became manager of the Car Service Commission, vice Mr. Sheaffer of the Pennsylvania, chairman, recalled. The Car Service Association is now with the Car Service Section of the Division of Transportation under the new "United States Railroad Administration." Mr. Carl R. Gray, president of the Western Maryland, is the assistant of the new division, and the car service section will be his "right arm." Office address, Room 1019, I. C. C. Building, Pennsylvania , Avenue and 18th Street, Washington, phone, Main 7460.

T. A. Lynch has been appointed chairman of the Class Fund Committee, and as such also assumes the position of class agent for the Tucker Alumni Fund. The other members of the committee remain K. Beal and W. R. Hodgkins.

The newspapers give as the result of H. A. Miller's work among the interned alien enemies at Camp Chillicothe a saving of one thousand men to the National Army. One morning thirteen out of fourteen men who had been discharged the day before returned and announced to their captain that they had come back to stay with the army for good. Inquiry showed that they had heard Miller talk upon the war the night before.

E. L. Silver was called, to Washington the latter part of February to represent New Hampshire at a conference of educational leaders from all over the United States at the request of the Federal Commission upon Education. He and Crolius, who happened to be in town the same day, lunched with Kendall. On his way back from Washington Silver attended the meeting of the National Educational Association at Atlantic City.

J. L. Sanborn during the cold snap transferred his steam shovels, etc., from freight terminal work to the railroad coal piles, in order to keep things going.

H. H. Sears is now located with his family at 404 Union Avenue, West Haven, Conn,

F. C. Staley is in Washington helping Pearl in the Department of Statistics about food, business address, Food Administration, Old Hotel Gordon, 16th and I Streets, N.W. Phone, Main 9720, Branch 42.

A daughter, Penelope MacKay Pearl, was born to Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Pearl on November 3, 1917.

Capt. H. L. Watson had a few days' furlough in New Haven the second week of February.

H. R. Willard's Washington addresses are: business, Food Administration, Old Hotel Gordon, 16th and I Streets, N.W. Phone, Main 9720, Branch 75. Residence, 2609 36th Place, N.W. Phone, Cleveland 848.

The annual round-up of the class was held this year on Saturday, March 2. The following men i Allen, Atwood, W. B. Adams, N. P. Brown, Barney, Currier, Donahue, Drew, Evans, W. R. Eastman, Galusha, Hodgkins, Hobbs, Hoban, Huckins, Irving, Lynch, Osgood, Rogers, Sleeper, J. L. Sanborn, Sears, twenty-two all told, together with the Hon. Melvin O. Adams of the class of '71, " a classmate of a classmate of ours," to wit, the late Professor Richardson, arranged their legs beneath a great round table at the City Club' this year instead of in the sub-cellar of the Copley Square. With the war time atmosphere, letters direct from the men at the front, Hodgkins' personal observations upon the intense work of the '99 men in Washington, Sleeper's intimate glimpses of the stricken Halifax at the time of the disaster and its real portent, Mr. Adams' happy thoughts and playful expressions, N. P. Brown's modest response in token of the new honor of judgeship which has come to him, made the meeting memorable, left, "in addition to the feeling of loving pride in the honor and the consecration that the full year just past had brought to so many of the men of the class a conviction that in the ranks of that rarest and finest of brotherhoods every one according to his capacities awaited with equal spirit and devotion the call to service."

Capt. Gerould, Clark, Kendall, Pearl, Staley, and Willard had a substitute round-up at Losekam's on F Street in Washington on the night of March 7. It was a little echo of the Boston round-up.

Secretary, George G. Clark, 60 State St., Boston