CLASS OF 1900
Leroy R. Sawyer has resigned from the consular service, and has made a connection with the United Fruit Company. He is now located in Santa Marta, Republic of Colombia. Roy doesn't give us any details in reference to his change, but we infer that the consular work was not very productive financially.
Frederick E. Atwood, fisherman, stamp collector, actor, publisher, (and accused malefactor) has enlarged his office space to take care of the increased circulation of the magazine called Antigues, and provide for his other growing businesses. Do not look for new furniture. Why should the publisher of a magazine of this character deal in the new when the old can be procured more cheaply and is more in keeping with his business? Why should the location of the office be changed, when every 1900 man who comes into South Station can get his check cashed and if need be borrow money from Atwood? It certainly is both a unique and antique establishment.
Three of our 1900 boys have left Hanover. They are Eaton, Jenkins, and Downing. There have been a combination of circumstances which made them all voluntarily take this action. We are sorry to see our numbers depleted, but there are still lots of 1900 boys in Hanover and plenty more on the way. Of those who are there, Paddock's boy played in the band, Norris is a scholar and a football candidate, McDavitt is a runner and a football man, one of the Rankins is a runner for an undergraduate organization. They are a busy lot. We of the older generations ought to go to- Hanover more frequently, and call around and see each and every one of them.
Ted Cate blew in from Pittsburgh the other day, and was entertained at lunch by six or eight fellows. He had just been to Wolfboro to see his mother. Going back into history, Ted recalled the time when he and Jasper Gibson chopped wood for Sid Roberts during one vacation. They thought they did a good job, but Sid complained that when the snow disappeared he had a series of wooden towers in his wood lot, which indicated great waste and inability to get below the surface of things. That probably explains why Gibson is in the construction business and Ted is building boilers; they always want to have something sticking up above the ground.
The Secretary has moved to 281 Otis St., West Newton.
J. M. Fowler is a life member of the University Club. So far as we know the only member from West Roxbury to attain that honorably position.
Jasper Gibson is rebuilding the town of Canaan, which was burned down last year. Anyway, whenever we call him up at the office, they tell us he is in northern New Hampshire.
L. W. Tuttle and D. D. Tuttle are brothers of Morton C. Tuttle, who has just been nominated alumni trustee. This event, too, makes history, as we have yet to know of anyone in Milford who ever gained that very honorable position. It is quite right that the class of 1900 should take some pride in this election, even although it might be difficult for them to show a similar exultation if the nomination had devolved upon an 1899 or 1901 man. We mention this fact in view of a rather nefarious speech which Charles Donahue of the class of 1899 made at a Newton Club evening. It was quite evident that during all these years he had failed to appreciate those intrinsic qualities of worth, merit, modesty, and manliness which have always characterised the members of 1900. With the greatest feeling of confidence we have always permitted members of other classes to express themselves in reference to 1900. A similar courtesy has never been extended to us, and perhaps after all that is a wise decision on the part of those classes which we have to our sorrow known intimately. Lest this brief communication might seem to infer that we do not think as highly of those classes against whom we struggled to raise the general average of the college during our period, we will stop here.
Secretary, 10 State St., Boston
