Class of 1878
Hervey A. Tarbell, M.D., of Watertown, S. D., has been surveying the Century of Progress, and records his approval of it, remarking incidentally that he means to be with us at our 60th.
B. A. Field of Watertown, N. Y., who had not attended a reunion or visited Hanover in fifty-five years, was very appropriately the first of the class to arrive for our 55th. He had taken the wise precaution to send for an up-to-date map of the town, and on arrival in his son's big sedan by way of Rutland, Woodstock, and Plymouth, Vt., he promptly got in touch with Prof. C. D. Adams. The two were classmates in '77 their first two years, and Adams consented to serve Field as guide, philosopher, and friend to show him the town next morn- ing, before the rest of '78 arrived. Field re- ported that he had done more business in the last ten years (he doesn't claim a more lucrative business) than in any previous decade. He is the legal representative of the Federal Land Bank in Watertown, and owns the abstract of titles relied upon in conducting the affairs of that institution.
John C. Gray of Chicopee, retired superintendent of schools of that city, is, and for a dozen years has been, persistently at work upon the preparation of a book along entirely new lines, which is now being tried out in several school systems. The results encourage him to hope that the book will be found indispensable for elementary school use, and will prove the crowning work of his long and useful career. His previous books have been for teachers' use only, and naturally not very remunerative.
W. D. Parkinson of Fitchburg, Mass., is having a combat with an unfamiliar germ which manages to skate through his anatomy without hitting any vital organ so far as discovered, but mangling the tips of as many of the nerves of sensation in face and head as expose themselves, causing the victim as much of pain as if it meant real business, and unfitting Parkinson for active duty, even for that of class secretary. He hopes for early recovery, but the time factor is as indefinite as it is in N R A.
Secretary, 331 Highland Ave. Fitchburg, Mass.
