CLASS OF 1900
Roger Dunlap has had wonderful success in his pastorate at Lancaster, N. H. His church had a resident membership of 180 when he went there, and since that time more than 100 new members have been admitted, 45 of them men. Roger is certainly a great success in the North Country.
Due to delay on the part of our local correspondent, we did not give before full details of the fine party which Zach Murray held at his house at the time of the outdoor roundup at Hampton. The fellows attending presented Mr. and Mrs. Murray with a set of sterling silver candlesticks. Ten members of the 1900 group were present with their wives and children.
John Redington is now connected with the Keyes Fibre Company in New York city. This firm is a large manufacturer of paper pie plates and other similar articles. The work is along the line which John has been doing for the last ten years. It is a very intimate and pleasant connection which he has and one which he will thoroughly enjoy. His home is in New Canaan, Conn., and he is enjoying it very, very much.
The Secretary made a tour of inspection the other day to look up the permanent domicile of the former Judge Harry B. Davis. He was located in a very pretentious house just opposite the Plymouth Hospital. It is up on a hill overlooking the entire town and, as Harry says, he can see the ocean, but doesn't have to use it. Within the home were Mrs. Davis, two girls, two boys, and a large cat. On the lawn was a target which Harry's younger boy, Bob, practised with during the early summer so as to give instructions in archery at a boys' camp. John is a junior at Dartmouth, and Mary has been at Wellesley for a year. Bob enters Exeter next fall. The boys are proficient in golf, conversation, and automobile management. The Judge does everything except sail, rather specializing in golf, outside of his law. Other details concerning the Davis family could be given, but they are of too intimate a character to print. The best thing to do is visit them in Plymouth, which, as you know, is a seaport town once inhabited by a race of people called Pilgrims.
Chelsea Atwood and Homer Keyes have sold their magazine, Antiques, to the people who own a publication called Asia. It was bought as a strictly quality magazine, which in itself is a great tribute to the structure which these two classmates of ours built. Homer is now in New York, having contracted to edit the magazine for a certain period of time. Chelsea is cutting coupons in West Roxbury when he is not running his trade publications on Atlantic Ave.
Day Condit ran into Bill Howard the other day in Chicago, and had a policeman hold him long enough to get his present address, which is as follows: The Hughes, Brown, Moore Corporation, 111 West Washington St., Chicago. Bill was non-committal except to say that he was well, happy, and expected to attend the next reunion.
The Secretary received a very fine letter from Mrs. William Stickney, who is now staying in Los Angeles, Cal. She said that Bill's father has not been quite so well this summer.
Clarence McDavitt spent most of the summer in Rexham, an aristocratic colony on the South Shore. It has a beach for bathing and a field for golfing. In August, Mr. and Mrs. McDavitt visited the Redingtons at New Canaan, Conn. In the meantime, Clarence McDavitt, Jr., and his wife occupied the home in Newtonville, having just been married the latter part of June.
The class of '99 held its thirtieth reunion in June. For full details refer to the column immediately preceding this one. We welcome Warren C. Kendall, to whom 1900 extends congratulations, together with a great deal of sympathy for the job which he has undertaken. We also congratulate this class on winning the cup given by the class of '94 for the best attendance at reunions. In our humble opinion, '99 is making real progress.
Calvin W. Foss is now librarian of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Library at 1000 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. He has for very many years been reference librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library, but took his new position on October first. The library is devoted entirely to botanic and allied subjects, and Calvin Foss's work will be to cooperate with the curators and garden staff, who are engaged in special research and experimentation. It certainly is a fine position, and one from which Cal will derive a great deal of pleasure.
Benton N. Dearborn is now a freshman at Hanover, carrying on the old Dearborn tradition. Buster Fairfield is also in College, and these two men, together with John S. Marden, give 1900 three freshmen at Hanover.
In this connection the class is surely interested in the sons of men whom we knew so well when we were in college and who are now freshmen: Bob Clark, 'O2; Charlie Dudley, 'O2; George Green, '9B; Bill Murray, 'O2; Lawrence O'Leary, '01; Dan Rollins, 'Ol.
Your class news will appear regularly in the Alumni Magazine. Haveyou renewed your subscription?
Secretary, 10 State St., Boston
