Class of 1885
Hon. George H. Whitcomb of Topeka, Kan., judge of the District Court of the Third Judicial District, has been temporarily obliged to give up his court sittings on account of sickness caused from overwork. He is improving, however, and expects to be able to resume his duties on the bench soon. He anticipates attending the class reunion next June.
Rosecrans W. Pillsbury of Derry, N. H., is at present very actively interested in the real estate business at St. Petersburg, Fla., where he fend his wife have spent the greater part of the last two years. He is president of the McGhee Interests, Inc., one of the large real estate development companies of the city, and wiites very enthusiastically of the developments going on in and about St. Petersburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Austin of Warner, N. H., are spending the winter in Florida. Austin is treasurer of the class, which may or may not explain how he can winter in Florida,—at all events he seems to be enjoying himself, as appears from a recent letter to the Secretary in which he said, "Pillsbury and I are representing '85 to the best of our ability. He is president of a successful real estate development company, and I am a tourist wearing out shoe leather on the pavements."
Alton E. Briggs, who is the efficient executive secretary of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, and who travels quite extensively making addresses in the interests of the Exchange, recently gave an address before the Arlington (Mass.) Board of Trade upon the subject, "The Great Question of Food Supply." His study and experience have made him a recognized expert on this subject.
Rev. Daniel O. Bean of Berkeley, Cal., has been engaged for some time preparing for publication the history of his family.
Thomas Leigh of Augusta, Me., accepted the invitation of the National Republican Committee and made many speeches in New York state for Coolidge and Dawes. This was the fourth or fifth presidential campaign in which Leigh has been called on for campaign speaking by the National Committee, which shows that his ability is appreciated. Some of us recall that his political speaking began at Hanover in the Blaine-Cleveland campaign in 1884.
The Class Secretary recently had a very pleasant call from William A. Dickey of Seattle, Wash., who spent the first two years of his College course with 'B5 at Dartmouth, and the last two years at Princeton. For many years Mr. Dickey has been actively interested in the development of copper mining in Alaska. Few men have had such a mining experience as his, or know as much about that territory, for he has spent the last twenty-eight successive summers there. For nearly twenty years his wife and four children lived with his in Alaska. The account of his experiences in that far north country is very interesting.
Otis E. Hovey of New York city, assistant chief engineer of the American Bridge Company, during a recent business trip to Boston called on the Secretary and discussed arrangements for the coming class reunion next June at Hanover. The fact that Hovey is the president of the class is ample assurance that the arrangements connected with the reunion will be well planned and carried out.
Secretary, 18 Tremont St., Boston.
