CLASS of 1899
Last spring Dan Ford was forced on account of ill health to give up some of his teaching activities at Lake Forest College, Illinois. It's good news, therefore, to know that Dan is back on full time duty this fall. This is not mere rumor, for both the Secretary and Lute and Mrs. Oakes have recently looked in on Dan and Mrs. Ford.
Peddy Miller, recently professor of sociology at Ohio State University, has established his home at Oberlin this year. For the present he will not resume teaching, but will fill a series of lecture engagements. What with dates already set at Cornell, Dartmouth, Wisconsin, and with various state teachers' associations, Ped is likely to spend full as strenuous a year as in the routine of college teaching.
Supplementing the note in the last issue concerning Ed Allen: Ed has severed his connection with the Daggett Chocolate Company and has set up business for himself. He and Harold L. Frost, a graduate of New Hampshire State, have organized the AllenFrost Fruit Products Company, with their factory located on Mill St., Arlington, Mass. They have extensive orange grove holdings in Orlando, Fla. Good luck, Ed!
The class family is saddened again by the death of another younger Ninety-Niner. George Huckins' older boy, Joseph G. Huckins, died suddenly in New York in October from infantile paralysis. Joe had made an excellent record as a Dartmouth student, graduating only last June. He had been a dependable performer in track events, and during his senior year was captain of the cross-country team. Only a few weeks before his death he had begun work as a junior executive with one of the big department stores in New York city. The sympathy of the class goes out to George and his wife and to Joe's brother Bob, who is himself in the third year at Dartmouth.
Pitt Drew is at this writing definitely convalescent from pneumonia; he has been staying at the Lancaster Hospital.
Speaking of Pitt reminds me of the recent destructive fire at the Holderness School for boys in Holderness, N. H. Pitt distinguished himself in baseball there, as he did later at Andover and Dartmouth. Other fellows who attended that school include George Huckins, George Clark, and Herbert Rogers' brother. Herbert himself taught history and Greek there one year, and mentions with pride one Technology engineer and one able rector whom he guided through the intricacies of the latter subject. Herbert tells a story of a Thanksgiving eve when several of the teachers sat up late together and by the merest accident prevented a disastrous fire there. The janitor had dumped red-hot ashes around a wooden pillar in the cellar; undiscovered, they would have started a fine blaze before morning. Somebody ought to make a book
out of early New Hampshire prep school days.
Lute Oakes, Dr. Charlie Cushman, and Harry Wason have all looked in on Dr. Neal Hoskins to cheer up his convalescence at St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Minn. Many readers of this MAGAZINE will enjoy the cut below of Neal and Bob Johnston in one of their familiar and famous clowning acts. This is supposed to have been taken in connection with the first carnival.
Secretary, 41 West Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Md.
