CLASS OF 1901

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Winslow Warren announce the engagement of Mrs. Warren's daughter, Miss Julia Mentzer, to Mr. Charles P. Golding, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Golding of Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Golding is a Williams man, and is now in business in Springfield.

Chan Cox is general chairman of the campaign to raise $1,500,000 for the New England Medical Center. The center, when formed, will provide the twofold service of a relief center for the sick poor of Boston, including babies of the poor, and a laboratory where Tufts Medical students will receive the training which will fit them best to become family doctors. Nearly 400 prominent men and women of Boston and other cities of New England have already agreed to serve on committees in the interest of the campaign.

Rubber Thayer writes interestingly of his work for the past 25 years in the cultivation of the date palm. This time has been spent studying the proper method of cultivation, better means of protecting the fruit against the changes of climate and temperature, and also the propagation of new plants. It has been a hard struggle against heavy odds, but those years of work and study are now bringing results. Rubber's son is a very fine botanist, having won several prizes in this line of work. He is interested in the business with his father, at the same time attending high school, and preparing to enter college next fall.

Goochie was back in the States for the month of January, but starts out in February to cover the Southern, Southwestern, and Pacific Coast Banana Vaudeville circuits.

Ed Hunter has been busy the past month or so traveling over the Rotary district of which he is governor, and checking up on these Rotarians and their doings.

The Class Agent and the Class Secretary held a most important conference at the Dartmouth Club in New York, the Sunday following the Dartmouth-Navy game. It was an all-day session, lasting from early in the morning until late afternoon. Plans for class activities for the coming year were discussed pro and con (mostly con), and no doubt important communications will be in the mails shortly.

We recently noticed in the Boston Traveller a group picture of a lot of newly-appointed fire department captains with Mayor "Mai" Nichols in the center of the group. None other than Jim Smith appeared beside the mayor, and we are wondering what Jim is up to now. Perhaps he is now known as "Spark" Smith. Anyway we recall in the old days before Malcolm Nichols was mayor that he and Jim had their law offices together in the Kimball Building on Tremont St.

The sympathy of the class will go out to Whiskers Crowell in the death of his brother, Jack Crowell 1903. Jack came to Hanover our junior year, and soon made the acquaint- ance of his brother's friends, more than that, he kept them as his friends, and consequently was very well known and especially well liked by many of 1901.

Frederick (Bemus) Pierce has been staying late this fall at his country home in Castine, Maine. He has been very busy finishing up two books on advanced psychology, mostly experimental and highly technical, and, as he says, "worse than Sanskrit to the uninitated. But I enjoy it and Europe seems to think it's worth while, so that's that." The next year will all be taken up in the classification and interpretation of about two million words of research notes. Bemus and his wife motored over to Hanover for the Cornell game, and had a most enjoyable time.

The 1901 bunch in New York got together December 5 for their monthly lunch. Gillie with a guest, the twin doctors from Brooklyn, Joe and Bunker, Charlie Prescott, Swampy Marsh, Cuddy, and Steve Stevens made up the group. Swampy had very interesting comments to make on the study that the New York city authorities are making for future water supply. Cuddy's experiences on the new bridge across the Hudson and his earlier work in connection with the Quebec bridge kept us all interested. These get-togethers certainly bring out the every-day life of those friends whose life work is so different from our own, and they certainly are well worthwhile.

Secretary, 254 Main St., Nashua, N. H.