CLASS OF 1906

Have you sent in your letter to the Secretary for the class report? And have you told him whether you are coming to the reunion in June? Let everyone lay his plans now to move heaven and earth to make Hanover in June, that our Twenty-Fifth Reunion may prove a record-breaker. The dates are June 13 to 16; present plans indicate the high points to be the class picnic at Shanty Shane on Sunday and the class dinner at the Hanover Inn on Monday evening.

Eric Kelly recently received a letter from Maynor Brock, reporting all well in Kansas City. Maynor sent two boys from his school to Dartmouth this fall.

The Burlington Free Press for December 27, ran the following editorial, entitled "French on the Job:"

"It is apparent that Edward S. French, former operating head of several Vermont railroads, including the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain, the Montpelier and Wells River, and the White River Railroad, who became president of the Boston and Maine Railroad last April, is already putting into effect the economies which made these Vermont lines successful under his management.

"The financial statement of the Boston and Maine, released for publication yesterday, show that the railroad earned in November a net income of $293,028, which compares with $160,723 for November, 1929. There was a continued recession of operating revenues, aggregating $973,686 as compared with a year ago, but operating expenses were reduced $1,316,843.

"During the first eleven months of 1930, the operating expenses of the road were $47,004,526 as compared with $54,360,522 for the first eleven months of 1929, a saving of $7,356,000 approximately. Of course it may be that other things entered into the saving of this amount of money for the railroad besides the taking over of the presidency by Mr. French, but the fact that this amount was saved during the first few months of his administration is significant.

"This is particularly true in view of the fact that freight revenues dropped off $685,401 during November, and passenger revenues declined $183,919 in November from the same month last year.

"Vermonters who know Mr. French know that he is a wizard when it comes to running a railroad, and that if anybody can keep the Boston and Maine on its feet financially, he can do it."

Secretary, Hanover, N. H.