Class of 1900
The Secretary called on Mr. Lemuel G. Hodgkins of Worcester, but found that he was just leaving for the Country Club.
John Moody's new home address is 593 Riverside Drive, Apartment 2F, New York city.
John C. Redington has been elected president of the Du-Plex Onvelope Corporation Quincy, 111., manufacturers of two-in-one envelopes.
Jonakowski has joined the staff of the New York Journal of Commerce, and has charge of their real estate advertising department. His address is 32 Broadway.
The New York 1900 men have formed a luncheon club which meets at Stewart's, 30 Park Place, every Thursday at 12:30. They want to be called the "old-timers," not because of any feeling of age, but because of that natural modesty which has been peculiar to all 1900 men. Representatives from the six classes graduating at the same period have been asked to join. This even includes the class of 1899, so you can see that the movement is a very broad one.
Henry N. Teague of Williamstown, Miami, and the Bahama Islands has been elected president of the Tuck School Alumni. So far as I know, Henry is the oldest living graduate of this institution. He will certainly bring weight, dignity, and enthusiasm to this new office.
The Stockton, Cal., Record in its out-ofdoors section is making a feature of the record of interesting out-door men. The one we have seen contains the full career of Paul Redington. The heading reads, "Administrative officer of 19,000,000 acres of national forest in California, Paul G. Redington has resources valued at three hundred million under his care." In the last four years Paul has traveled 35,000 miles by motor over California in the performance of his duties. The permanent force of the forestry service in California numbers 310. The expense of handling the work last year amounted to $1,100,000, while the receipts from the sale of timber and leasing the land for the same period amounted to $1,350,000. Twenty-two percent of the sheep and 13 percent of the range cattle produced in California graze under permit on the forestry areas. During 1923 more than 425,000 people visited the national forests, so you can see Paul has quite a job. This preliminary to his telling us more about it when he comes to the reunion in 1925.
R. M. Barton is busily constructing the new golf course for the Yale University Athletic Association. He tells us that he is going to take a group of twenty Dartmouth men to work on the course after Commencement, and about the same number of Yale undergraduates. The last course that Barton constructed was in Bermuda. He is an expert in this line of work, and thoroughly enjoys it.
A note received from Runt Skillin announces quite a serious automobile accident in which Mrs. Skillin was injured. She is, however, recovering rapidly.
Every year the Everett High School calls back, one of its distinguished graduates to address the pupils. This year a member of the class of 1900 was selected in the person of Charlie Dolloff, who is superintendent of the New Hampshire State Hospital. Charlies talk was most interesting, and we of 1900 realize that this honor was deserved. Charlie is the head of one of the most important institutions in New England, and is recognized as an authority by those who are acquainted with his line of work.
The annual out-door round-up of the class of 1900 was held at the Hotel Pilgrim, Plymouth, Mass., the week following Commencement. The first even}: on the program was a clam muddle at the Colonial Club in the city of Plymouth. Judge Davis was the host, and certainly did himself proud. I feel sure that no other class has ever indulged in a clam muddle, so once again 1900 leads. The balance of the round-up was devoted as usual to choral efforts on the part of the class, numerous conversations, and a fishing party indulged in by Chelsea Atwood, Homer Keyes, and Charlie Rogers. The results were not fatal to the fish population of Plymouth. Some of the class played golf; others played other things. The music might have been criticized a bit by those who- are apt to find little blemishes in any good thing, but 1900 rather prides itself on the range of its musical selections rather than on the perfection which it reaches in the delivery of any particular one. The judicial machinery of the state- was held up while Harry Fairfield attended this round-up. Very few came from far-away points, but Neil Gibbons came over from Brooklyn, N. Y., and was a great help in disposing of the sea food which formed the bulk of our meals. The weather was so variable that no one ind -l-re-l in The most pleasing event was the opportunity to meet Judge Davis' two boys, one of whom is in high school and will be in college within a few years. They both have the Judge's cadaverous countenance and his particular sense of humor. The Judge devoted himself morning and night to the outing, and acted just as the right kind of a host should. As usual, the event was epoch-making, most of the talk centering about the Twenty-fifth in Hanover.
The Secretary called on Mr. Lemuel G. Hodgkins of Worcester but found that he was just leaving for the Country Club.
Report has reached us from a roundabout source that Edmund Jonakowski of New York is married. The Secretary, who has paid agents in most of the summer resorts, received word that he was spending his honeymoon at Lake Geo'rge. Full details of this very momentous step have not been received. This news item demonstrates the fact that any given list of bachelors twenty-five years out of college cannot be considered enturely fossilized. While there is life there is hope. It is the wish and prayer of the major of the: class that others in this solitary group will take courage from the step that Jonakowski has taken.
Secretary, 10 State St., Boston
