CLASS OF 1906
Elon Pratt has, according to an editorial in the New York Evening Post of May 3, taken the lead in organizing Unit No. 1 of the Legion of Volunteer Jurors, which is designed to remedy the present faulty jury system and to improve the type of jurors who sit on cases in New York city. This is called by the Post "a piece of practical patriotism." The movement is sponsored by the New York Rotary Club.
Arthur Holmes is one of the joint authors of a monograph entitled "The Value of Different Types of Glass for Transmitting Ultraviolet Light," reprinted from the March issue of the American Journal of Diseases of Children.
After a silence of more than twenty years, King Benton has written your Secretary a long and most interesting letter from his home in Hood River, Oregon. King went into the Hood River Valley in the days of its big boom and, despite periods of financial depression and agricultural failure, he has stuck to his guns and has become a successful farmer. Besides his own ranch, he runs three adjoining orchards, all of which he is gradually changing over from unprofitable apples to sweet cherries and winter French pears, which grow better in that section than anywhere else in the country. For the past six years he has been prominently identified with the co-operative farm movement, serving on committees of Northwest growers who are trying to reorganize the fruit industry of the region. "It has been an interesting experience," he writes, "and I feel that I am only in the beginning. I have lost any naive feeling I may have had as to the desire of average human nature to look quickly toward Utopia, or of confidence in the honesty of attitude on the part of the whole salaried and commissioned part of the country that is 'helping' to distribute farm products. Our product here locally in apples is a specialty fruit for the export market, especially England and Scotland, and the experience of working out our policies over a period of years where the marketing has been international rather than local has been interesting. Our own local growers' co-operative has a paid-in capital of about a million dollars, and the industry of the Northwest runs towards a hundred million dollars annually, so that we are getting into big business figures." King has two children; the elder, Julianne, has just completed her freshman year at the University of Oregon, and the younger, Charles King, Jr., has another year yet in high school.
The sympathy of the class goes out to Eric Kelly, whose mother died in Lowell, Mass., two weeks after Eric and Mrs. Kelly sailed to spend the summer in Poland and Lithuania.
Elon Pratt, Cliff Perry and Mrs. Perry, Con Chellis and Mrs. Chellis and Mary, and probably a few others of the non-residents of our class, were in Hanover for Commencement.
We have recently learned of the death of George Loff in Evanston, Wyoming, on April 25. A detailed account will appear in the next number of the MAGAZINE.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
