CLASS OF 1889

Ralph Bartlett is running true to form. He returned, early in April, from a few weeks visit in British Guiana.

The Secretary is very glad to be able to share with classmates and other friends of Mr. Warden the following paragraphs, which are taken from a circular of information:

"Oliver S. Warden, publisher of the Great Falls Tribune, at Great Falls, Montana, has been nominated for election as a director of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, from District No. 8.

"Mr. Warden came to make his home in the West in 1889, the year Montana was admitted to statehood, and has always taken an active part in the development of the Northwest and the city of Great Falls. He has never sought political preference, but has held continuously civic positions of confidence and trust, always taking on work of this kind to the limit of time and ability. In the early years he was a member of the Great Falls board of school trustees for a period of twelve years, was chairman of the board for the last six years. He was a member of the Great Falls park board for eight years, under appointment by the governor. He was state fair director for ten years. He has served as a director of the Great Falls Chamber of Commerce for the longest continuous service of any director, twenty years. He has been its president. He took on a leadership, some years ago, to give Montana an adequate system of highways, and has been for several years chairman of the Montana Highway Commission, is vice-president of the American Association of State Highway Officials for the northwest district and also vice-president of the Western Association of State Highway Officials. He has been a trustee of the Great Falls Community Chest since its organization, is interested in aeronautics, and has represented Governor Erickson at all recent Western aeronautic conferences.

"Mr. Warden is a native of the state of New Hampshire. He spent three years at the well-known, old-time academy, in St. Johnsbury, Vt., and graduated from Dartmouth College with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. Coming to Montana a few months after graduation, he has been engaged in newspaper work in every capacity, from reporter to publisher, through a forty-year period. He understands the agricultural, industrial, transportation, and economic problems of the West. As a national councilor of the Great Falls Chamber of Commerce he has come to believe that the United States Chamber of Commerce can bring about a large and lasting accomplishment through a better understanding between the East and the West by the development of correct national policies in business and government. He served as a member of the resolutions committee at the Atlantic City meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce a year ago. Communications from associates on this committee and from organizations covering a wide area of all the states indicate a wide approval of our proposal that Mr. Warden be elected a director. He has also the endorsement of all commercial and business organizations in Montana, having membership in the Chamber of Commerce of the United States."

While Warden was in New York city in April, for the annual meetings of the Associated Press and the American Newspaper Publishers Association, he joined Hazen and Sullivan in an impromptu '89 reunion.

Secretary, 87 Milk St., Boston