Class of 1891
A recent news note reports the retirement of Rev. Francis M. Banfil, rector of the Episcopal church in Goffstown, N. H., of which he has had charge for many years.
E. D. Burbank writes under date of May 25 that he and Mrs. Burbank are still living quietly in Sierra Madre, Calif., at the foot of Mt. Wilson, dividing their time between Sierra Madre and Laguna Beach, which is their summer home.
In April Walter D. Cobb, who had been connected with the N. E. Tel. 8c Tel. Cos. for many years, was retired, going on a six months' leave of absence before being placed on the pensioned list.
James A. (Sailor) Cook of Biddeford, Me., a successful journalist connected with papers in Biddeford and Sanford, Me., and Rochester, N. H., has been seriously ill at his home since May. At the last call the Secretary made on September 2 he is showing some improvement.
Dr. George M. Watson, who was a patient at the Palmer Memorial Hospital, Boston, in the spring, has resumed his practice in Manchester, N. H., and writes of his continued improvement.
Herbert E. Sargent, head of the science department of Brewster Free Academy, was highly honored at the reunion of the alumni at Wolfeboro, N. H. Mr. Sargent has been in charge of the science department for forty years, following two years of science teaching in the Concord, N. H., High School. He has been several times acting principal of the academy, but has each time preferred to return to the rank of submaster, feeling that the executive position took more of his time and energy than his health permitted.
John Walker spent some time at the Portsmouth, N. H., Hospital in the spring. His oldest daughter, Martha, has passed away.
Dr. Charles S. Little received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Dartmouth at the June Commencement. Dr. Little became superintendent of Letchworth Village at Thiells, N. Y., the state's largest institution for mental defectives, in 1910, and lived in a tent while the first buildings were being constructed. When the new buildings, for which the corner stones were laid on June 14, are completed, Letchworth Village will have cost a total of $10,000,000. Its capacity, now 2959, will have been increased to 3650.
Secretary, 79 Milk St., Boston
