Class of 1885
Dr. and Mrs. Warren S. Adams have returned to their Park Ave., New York home after spending a long season at their summer home, "Samphire," at Little Boar's Head, N. H. Warren is an ardent devotee of golf. His other avocation is bookbinding, in which he has become quite an adept.
Dr. Ed Allen continues as chief medical director of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, taking his exercise during the summer in playing golf and in winter in curling. His son Nathaniel holds a responsible position with the First National Bank of Boston.
John Clark, who has been for many years manager of the office of the American Surety Company at Newark, N. J., still continues as resident vice-president, but is relieved of a large part of the responsibility which he had previously carried. He has sustained about the same position to that company at Newark that "Life" Philbrick has to the same company for Boston and New England.
Will Cragin of Worcester, Mass., recently retired from his position of deputy collector of customs, which he has held for a long time, and is enjoying his "hobbies." He recently wrote the Secretary a most appreciative letter of the latter's secretarial efforts—Such letters are welcome, for they are like a green oasis amid the dryness of the secretarial desert, and encourage the Secretary "to keep going."
Sam Wilcox of Galveston, Texas, has retired after 46 years of continuous service in connection with the United States Engineer's office in Galveston. He has been sojourning for a few months at San Pedro, Calif., where he was quite a near neighbor to "Life" Philbrick at Hollywood. The Secretary endeavored to arrange a meeting between them before Sam returned to Galveston, which will continue to be his permanent home.
"Fuddy" Plapp recently took the Secretary seriously to task because in the November issue of the MAGAZINE the Secretary reported him as having taught 45 yearsin the Schurz High School of Chicago, whereas, as he promptly informed the Secretary, the Schurz High School only came into existence in 1910 and he resigned in 1930, which left a discrepancy of only 25 years in the Secretary's news items, but as Fuddy admits that he was busy teaching elsewhere during all those preceding 25 years, the Secretary's statement was only in part incorrect, and he feels that he deserves forgiveness because he was responsible neither for the erection of the Schurz High School building nor Fuddy's teaching engagement there. Nevertheless, the Secretary is delighted to have his classmates check him up on his news items and will endeavor to produce the necessary alibis to protect himself.
Harry Parker is still practicing law in Worcester, Mass., and has been doing some excellent professional work, as the decisions of the Massachusetts Supreme Court bear, witness. His son, Henry L. Parker Ill (Dartmouth 1926), is connected with the Harris Trust Co. of Chicago.
How many of the class have had the opportunity to see the modern mural decorations in the new Baker Library at Hanover, which have been the subject of much criticism, favorable and unfavorable? They are the work of a Spanish painter, Orozco, who had lectured at the College and every graduate visiting Hanover should make it a point to see them and interpret their meaning if his artistic taste has been sufficiently developed to enable him to do so.
Secretary, Kimball Bldg., 18 Tremont St., Boston
