Class of 1893
Our class has been much in the limelight of newspaper photography this spring. On the morning after Easter Sunday the Boston Post included in its society parade pictures a remarkably good snapshot of President Guy W. Cox and Mrs. Cox on their way, presumably, to or from church . Adorning the front cover of the New England Homestead of April 17 we find a fine portrait of Carl C. Fletcher of Vermont, "leading the fight against higher milk rates." The Manchester Union pictures a group of "Laconia City Officials," with Colonel Charles A. French, city engineer, pleasingly placed between the pretty chief clerks of the city clerk and tax collector. Charles, by the way, has just been named by the governor and council of New Hampshire to repair, restore, and preserve Endicott Rock, famous in history as the place where the first excursion party to The Weirs picnicked.
The somewhat select circle of '93 men in the state of Vermont has an addition by grace of the presiding bishop of the Troy Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, who recently assigned Rev. Edward Bowers to the church at Winooski, Vt. Rev. Willis T. Sparhawk sends us a little booklet in which he has published an appreciative tribute to the memory of his former pastor at West Randolph, Vt. We have a splendid letter written by Rev. George E. Kinney from his sick bed at Bradford, Vt. If all of us met our little every day troubles with the cheerful christian courage Kinney shows in his affliction, how much brighter our corners would be!
Another tie that binds '93 to Vermont is the fact that our class baby, Perley Baker, is track coach, as well as a member of the faculty, at Norwich University, and is busy this spring with rather more promising material than he usually has at Northfield. Father Rufus H. Baker, so the Boston Herald recently was informed in a special dispatch from Bow, was elected moderator of the school meeting there recently. The second son of Rufus, Bradley L. Baker, is connected with the Concord postoffice, and was chosen recently one of the board of directors of Local 388, National Federation of Postoffice Clerks.
The Hanover roommate of Rufus, Rev. Frank N. Saltmarsh, got into print the other day by going back from Derry to Gilmanton Iron Works for the purpose of uniting in marriage two of his former parishioners there.
Right here it might be said, if there is sufficient room in the D. A. M., that the Secretary of '93 gets most of his information about his classmates from reading newspaper exchanges; and lacking such exchanges from Rochester, Minn., Rochester, N. Y., Dayton, Ohio, and Memphis, Tenn., not to mention other places, we lack knowledge as to the goings on of some of our most estimable classmates. We wish these and all other classmates would overcome their modesty or inertia and send us some press notices of themselves.
Anyhow, we learn from the Fryeburg, Maine, correspondent of the North Conway Reporter, that Dr. and Mrs. A. J.. Lougee, who have been in Florida for the winter, returned home on Thursday, making the trip by automobile, and experiencing no difficulty until within a few miles of Brownfield. From that point their progress was slow, a pair of horses and driver accompanying them to assist in getting over bad places in the woods."
Secretary, 37 South Spring St.. Concord, N. H.
