Class of 1893

Thanks to friends, we are able to span the continent from the vicinity of Portland, Me., to Portland, Ore., in this month's class notes. A late season vacation postcard from a touring fellow citizen of Concord is dated Fryeburg, Me., and reports the good health and good wishes of Dr. Arthur J. Lougee. Another of the medicine men of the class, Dr. Herbert S. Martyn of Cuttingsville, Vt., obliges with news of one of his former patients, Attorney James H. Van Horn of the Pacific Coast.

It is several years since his classmates heard from jovial Jim, and the reason turns out to be that in December, 1928, while trying a case at Klamath Falls, he was attacked by an illness of mysterious source, which has kept him in hospital wards and on operating tables most of the time since, and had him down to 110 pounds in weight. Now, however, he writes Dr. Martyn that he is beginning to "come back" and is doing some professional work. Some of his troubles during his long illness were with his eyes, when he was treated successfully by the late Dr. John N. Coghlan '93, who was, according to Jim, "the leading operating oculist on theCoast and one of the best in the country."

When Jim came on from Cody, Wyo., to attend the 1923 class reunion he was suffering from a painful hip trouble. After Commencement Dr. Martyn took him up into the green hills of Vermont to recuperate, and treated him so successfully that Jim says he has never had an ache or a pain in his hip since. He rightfully gives the King credit for being a miracle man in his line. The Doctor did not run for office this fall, but his legislative service of two years ago gave him a deep interest in public affairs and he was an active worker this year in the interests of the candidacy of Charles M. Smith '91 for lieutenant governor of Vermont.

Two members of the class have new addresses. McQuesten, after 35 years in Brooklyn, has become a suburbanite, buying a home at 194-42 114th Drive, St. Albans, L. 1., N. Y., and McKay reports to the College Alumni Office a business address at 4.5 Exchange St., and a residence address at 206 Rutgers St., Rochester, N. Y.

Charles Gould Griffith of Manchester, Vt., son of our Judge Edward Griffith, has been pledged by the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity from Dartmouth '35. From Rochester, Minn., Attorney W. W. Smith reports that he has a son doing well at Middlebury College. No son of '93 seems to be enrolled in Dartmouth '36.

The recent death of Jesse Pomeroy, widely advertised life prisoner in Massachusetts, led one Boston paper in its review of his career to say that "of all thestudies made of Pomeroy by far the mostilluminating is that made in 1914, whenPomeroy was 54, by a group of medicalmen including Dr. Henry R. Stedman,Dr. Walter E. Fernald, Dr. Joseph I. McLaughlin, and Dr. Guy G. Fernald."

Abbott sends us the program of the 82d annual meeting of the Franklin Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers at Greenfield, Mass., October 4, of which he was the scribe and at which Rev. Byron F. Gustin conducted a praise service and Francis B. Gustin gave a baritone solo.

We have saved up for next month a lot of New Hampshire news and an account of a '93 wedding.

Secretary 104 North State St., Concord, N. H,