Class Notes

CLASS OF 1877

May 1925 John M. Comstock
Class Notes
CLASS OF 1877
May 1925 John M. Comstock

George W. Barlett of Ricine Wis, who is passing the winter at St. Petersburg, Fla., writes of meeting there his classmates Justin H. Smith and Albert H. Morton, and of a recent call on Dr. Pfeiffer in Denver. This recent experience in class reunions should arouse in "Grace" a keen appetite for the Fiftieth, now not so far off.

Another member of the class who has been retired perforce by the action of law on attaining his seventieth birthday is C. S. Deane, who has been a civil engineer in the employ of the state of Massachusetts. At his home town of Hanover, Mass., he has just been reelected to the offices of selectman, assessor, and overseer of the poor, so he is not without something to do.

The Burlington Free Press, in an article treating of the leading members of the Vermont legislature, which has recently finished its session, has this to say of one of the class: "Mr. Cudworth of Londonderry, veteran of five previous sessions of the legislature, was in a position to assume leadership in the House from the start. And he did so. As chairman of the important ways and means committee he had much to do with the shaping of the taxation policy of the legislature. He was one of the most convincing speakers in the House, and, while not always followed, his words were always given respectful attention, the House giving great weight to his opinions and his straight forward and precise manner of stating them."

Rev. F. M. Chapin, Ann Arbor, Mich., has changed his address to 1321 Wilmot St. He has been engaged of late in real estate business, "fitting up old houses and renting apartments," as he says. As an avocation he has been doing writing along lines suggested by his life in China. His fourth son, Ralph, a graduate of the University of Michigan in 1917, died last June in Detroit.

Secretary, Chelsea, Vt. George W. Bartlett of Racine, Wis., who is