CLASS OF 1899

A. M. Abbott had charge of all the advertising for the five boroughs of Manhattan in the last Red Cross drive.

E. A. Abbott is now land examiner for Lombard and Sons, Inc., doing similar sort of work to that done for the Federal Land Bank. His new address is 1444 L Street, Fresno, Cal.

W. B. Adams was ill in the fall and had to give up business. He is recuperating now, and is living* at 457 Columbia Road, Dorchester, Mass.

E. L. Allen has recently associated himself with The Daggett Chocolate Company, 35 Lewis Wharf. Boston.

K. Asakawa is still in Japan. During the summer he spent some time studying original documents at the monastery at Nara, and then later at Kyoto and Mt. Koya.

Born March 3, to John and Mrs. Ash, Martha Ash and Mary Ash. The latter died March 6.

J. L. Barney was elected vice-president of the Dartmouth Club in September. He spent a week with Warren in Washington, during February.

K. Beal was office manager last summer for the Boston Dredging Company, on their Portland harbor war work for the U. S. government. His family were with him in a cottage on Peak's Island.

With sorrow we report the death on Aug. 27, 1918, of Richard, the son of Louis and Mrs. Benezet, born on July 12, 1918. A new edition of his book, "The World War and What Was Behind It", was published in the summer. He attended the conference of the National Educational Association at Chicago the last of February.

Judge Brown on the Circuit, Bill Sears happening in town, Atwood studying Y. M. C. A. athletics, and Dickey and Barstow had an interesting reunion at Springfield last September.

F. W. Cavanaugh received the commission of Major toward the end of October, and was wounded about the time the armistice was signed when his division was on the front just east of Verdun. Since then he has been much in the hospitals and at rest places in the southern part of France. The trustees at the meeting after the dinner in Boston on March 5 voted to grant him his degree of A. B. "honoris causa".

Sergt. J. D. Child was in the neighborhood of Bordeaux during the fall. He had been ill for a long time with pneumonia and expected then to be sent home, but has not yet arrived.

Clark was connected with the Statistical Department of the Food Administration at Washington from October to February 15.

Cogswell made his fifth acting tour of Vermont during the summer. This winter he has been working in picture studios in New York, and playing the part of an old rube in "Mary Be Careful", one of the big Broadway companies of Webber and Anderson.

A year ago this spring Bill Colbert worked as a guard at 'the Atlantic Corporation at Portsmouth in an effort to do something for the war. Then later he helped to farm and put in some time on the algebra book that he is preparing. Recently he has become much interested in the Friends of Irish Freedom movement, and was at the* convention in Philadelphia.

Croker did his bit for the war by connecting himself with the Fore River Shipbuilding Plant, .and was preparing to go across as a secretary for the K. of C. when the armistice came.

July 20, 1918, Charles H. Donahue, Jr., the son of Charles H. Donahue, was drowned while in bathing at Allerton Beach. The lad apparently got in over his depth, and the other boys thought he was staying under water purposely. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dona hue were in town at the time of the sad ac cident.

Drew acted as assistant to the employer members of the National War Labor Board in Washington during the summer and up to January. Part of each week he gave to the work in Washington and part to the work in Boston, which during the summer came to include the presidency of the Middlesex and Boston Street Railway.

DuRois gave much time during the summer to putting Randolph, Vt., over the top on the various war drives.

W. R. Eastman had a week-end round-up during the summer with the '99 crowd in Washington.

W. F. Eaton was in the midst of his preparatory course at the Y. M. C. A. College in Springfield, when hostilities ceased, so did not get to France as he expected. He is now back at work with the American-Advertiser.

George and Mrs. Evans installed and maintained from October to February a library for the sailors at the Hampton Road Naval Base, where there were eight thousand boys. They were there during the trying time of the "flu", and endeared themselves in many ways to the boys and their parents.

Mun Folsom has not been well during the last year, and has retired to his old family home at West Epping, N. H.

Rev. M. T. B. Fuller is located at New Marlboro, Mass., and has charge of the churches in the adjoining towns of Norfolk and Southfield. He preaches in each place on Sunday.

Quite naturally Galusha's gas producer engines got into the war. The U. S. Government had a ISO h. p. outfit in a boat used by the Commissary Department of the army.

Gannon rendered invaluable assistance to the Liberty Loan Committee in preparation for the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign. He organized a committee that developed in remarkable and brilliant manner the details of the Avenue of the Allies and the Altar of Liberty ceremonies, the ideas for which he conceived.

Capt. Gordon H. Gerould finished his labors with the Trench Warfare Section of the Engineering Bureau, Ordnance Department, at Washington, Dec. 12, 1918.

Mrs. A. L. Heywood, born Leilia M. Allen, died Oct. 29, 1918, after a severe and long illness.

Hodgkins recently made a trip to Arizona to see Mrs. Hodgkins, who has been staying in Arizona on account of her health.

Dr. Hoskins was in the East during February to visit his mother, who was ill at Sugar Hill, N. H.

Bob Johnston was one of the four minute speakers on the various war drives, and was also a recruiting officer for the state of New Hampshire. Incidentally Mrs. Johnston had the largest wheat field in the state, to wit fifteen acres.

Jordan since May 1, 1917, has been farm manager for Mr. E. V. Watson, who has a large dairy farm, "The Magnolias", at Beacon, N. Y. A daughter, Winifred Ella, was born August 14, 1918.

Joy was one of the four minute speakers for the District of White River Junction during the war.

Kendall gave a talk on the railroad administration before the members of the Dartmouth Club at a meeting held at the Boston City Club in February.

Kimball has moved from Ontario, Ore., to 1199 Stevenson Ave, Pasadena, Cal.

Ronald Leavitt, the class baby, who was gassed in the Argonne and was for a long time in the hospital at Vichy, came back to America in the middle of January. He is now all right and is located at Newport News, anxiously awaiting discharge so that he may go back to school and prepare for college.

Locke was engaged in the construction of the submarines built at the ship yards at Kittery, Maine.

Lynch was present at the dinner tendered the class agents by the Alumni Council in New York, November 8.

Lyster's son Leland was enrolled in the S. A. T. C. at Norwich University during the fall, consigned to the cavalry division.

Martin was located at St. Nazaire in the fall in Y work. After the armistice was signed he was requested to stay on to do educational work for the Y, and has been taking part in that.

Prof. H. A. Miller has been a conspicuous figure during the last year in connection with the new nations arising out of Eastern Europe. He was a member of the committee for the great Carnegie 'tiall victory meet- ing of the oppressed nationalities of Middle Europe, and drafted the resolutions read there on September IS. He was also with Dr. Masarvk. president of Czecho-Slovakia, and Mr. Paderewski, when those resolutions were presented to President Wilson at the White House. Upon the organization of the Middle European Union, which serves after the manner of the Pan-American Union the new nations arising out of Eastern Europe, he was made director of it, and as its director and leader in America of the Finns, Poles, Czecho-Slovaks, Ukrainians, Roumanians, Jugo-Slavs, Unredeemed Greeks, Lithuanians, Italian Irredentists, and Jews of Palestine, has taken part in the conference of the representatives of these peoples held at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, at which a declaration of their common aims and puremany after-dinner speeches at distinguished gatherings. At Christmas he read a paper upon "The American, Spirit in the Organization of Middle Europe" before the American Sociological Society at its meeting held at Richmond, Va.

A son, Thomas Edwin, was born to Luther and Mrs. Oakes on March 5.

Osgood came near getting into the war through the Chemical Warfare Service, but was later requested to stick to his job as chemist with the North Packing and Provision Company.

Dr. D. W. Parker has been in better health since last summer, and has been leading an active practice owing to the absence of other doctors in the war.

The Paynes were very actively engaged in all the war activities, and gave up their house and settled down at the Weldon in Greenfield in order to give all their time to them.

Pearl was a delegate of the United States to the Inter-Allied Food Council held in London and Paris in November. On March 1, he finished his work with the Food Admimstration and is now located at Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore.

George J. Prescott has been spending the year quietly with his mother and father at their place in Meredith, N. H.

Richardson, together with Professor Foster and Professor Dixon, put together a wonderful "course" on the issues of the war, which was required of all of the seven hundred men in the S. A. T. C. at Dartmouth. He is also one of the speakers in the extension lecture course in the city of Manchester, which has been spreading the same course further afield.

Risley since fall has been connected with the Racine Rubber Tire Company and having as business address 10 Central Park, West, New York city. He still maintains his residence in Pleasantville, N. Y.

Rounds as social investigator for the Ford Motor Company has been doing Americanization of much value during the last year. His residence is now 107- Hancock Avenue, West, Detroit, Mich.

Mot Sargent has returned from Candia to New Bedford. He suffered the loss of both his father and mother during the summer.

Bill Sears was advanced in September to assistant engineer of the Department of Real Estate of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.

Sewall went overseas in May, 1918. His division saw action first June 25 in the Lagney Sector northwest of Toul. From then until the armistice ended hostilities it had little rest. It was in both the St. Mihiel and the Argonne-Meuse offensives. During the worst of the fighting his hospital, one thousand beds under cover, was stationed about five miles from the fighting line, and on one occasion he was the only man left alive in the room after a shelling. Some time during these months of activities Sewall was given a few weeks leave for intensive training, and was then made Division Medical Gas Officer. He was recommended over a year ago for a mayorship, but as yet has not received it, although having been acting in that capacity. His division is now on priority and is expected back soon.

Silver attended the meeting of the National Educational Association at Chicago in February.

The Supreme Court of Massachusetts affirmed the appointment of Sleeper as one of five trustees of the Bromfield Street church, Boston, thereby ending a stretch of litigation that has extended over years.

Mrs. Staley and the three boys joined Frank in Washington during the late fall. Frank made a wonderful record in the Food Administration as Mr. Riccard's right hand man, being office manager of the administrative end of the administration.

A daughter, Phoebe, was born November 11, armistice day, to Dave and Mrs. Storrs.

Surrey during the last summer did his bit by helping to harvest over ten million bushels of wheat on a western farm. Since September he has been busy with his school work.

Wason's organization, constituting the southern office of Roebling Sons Company, furnished sixty per cent of its personnel to active service.

Willard has bought a place at Decatur Heights, Bladensburg, Md., just outside of Washington on the way to Baltimore," and it looks as if he might settle down in Washington permanently.

Woodman organized a band of twenty-five boy workers, which he took up into Aroostock County, Maine, and thereby rendered efficient assistance to the farmers. In the fall he was very low with the grippe, but recovered and is now back at his university duties.

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