Class of 1893
The Secretary regrets to open this installment of his thrilling serial, "The After Life of '93," with what might be termed a cavil; but he feels that an information must be lodged against a former secretary of the class, Dr. L. W. Burbank, principal physician of the Cabot, Vt., area, who recently spent a week or two in Hooksett, N. H., but did not give the '93 publicity headquarters in the Granite State capitol a call or even a ring. Billy Mann, hitchhiking home over the Daniel Webster Highway, did get a lift from the Burbanks in the course of their mad rush back to the Green Mountains, and reports them as looking well and apparently advancing through the years prosperously and philosophically; the Doctor having survived both service in the Vermont legislature and surgical treatment in a Vermont hospital. Not, we hasten to add, that we would compare either institution unfavorably with those in New Hampshire or any other state.
That other Vermont medico, Dr. Herbert Sedgwick Martyn of Cuttingsville, we roused into epistolary action by sending him on his birthday a beautiful card bearing a not so beautiful original poem. In response the King reported an enjoyable visit from Judge Edward Griffith and Forester Willard Aborn, during which the trio enjoyed an exciting baseball game, which was, however, inaptly devoid of opportunities for the Doctor to display his professional skill in setting bones and binding up wounds.
As this is written Arborist Aborn is addressing in the New Hampshire State House a gathering of the licensed arborists of the Granite State, urging their organiza- lion and giving them the up and up and the low down on N R A as it applies to shade trees, fruit trees, in fact all kinds of trees except family trees. This welfare work has kept Willard dashing about New England in his automobile all summer and fall, visiting four states in one day on occasion. As we remember it, Aborn was the first man in '93 to own an automobile, so he ought to be the expert motorist which he is.
On the Massachusetts South Shore dur- ing the summer Aborn halted at the Rufus Baker abode and saw Rufus, but, not see- ing any trees on which to operate, soon moved along. Rufus, as we understand it, plans to spend the winter in Concord.
November birthdays: Caswell, the 7th; Lougee, the 1st; Place, the 25th; Sanders, the 27th; Selden, the 6th.
Some of the many anecdotes printed about Ring Lardner following his recent death had to do with his service on the copy desk of the Boston American with Harry Metcalf as his chief.
Secretary, 104 North State St. Concord, N. H.
