Class of 1895
A. G. Bugbee, our long distance runner of years ago, has decided to end his days as a Californian.
"I am fully determined," he writes, "tosettle down in California to end my days.Salubrious climate, economical living conditions, congenial community life, withina half hour's drive to the mountains, thedesert, or the center of Los Angeles, andnow a more than even chance that we maryhave Upton Sinclair for our next governor;what more can one ask on this earth?
"My daughter and her family met us atthe dock in Wilmington and drove us totheir home in Venice, one of the manysmall cities incorporated into Los Angeles.Her husband, who is Rev. Philip Swartz'23, had in the meantime received a callto the First Congregational church in Ogden,decided to move there. And so-o-o wewere at liberty to settle anywhere, and afterlooking at any number of L. A. suburbswe decided on Glendale.
"And here we are, a palm and a redwoodtree in the front yard, and orange, lemon,grapefruit, and fig trees in the back, a fairsized garden for flowers and vegetables.Friends from Randolph, Vt., helped us tofind the place and have been mighty fineabout showing us the countryside andhelping to make us acquainted. Library,churches, an out-door club, the finest markets in the world, Y.M.C.A., and thecenter of business in a city of 65,000 areall within a ten minutes' easy walk. Sinceour arrival at the end of April we have hadonly one cloudy day and two very briefshowers of rain. Altogether we think it aparadise for a lazy man.
"Please remember me to all the membersof the class that cross your path; I hope toget up Mt. Wilson some day soon, whereMike Adams is reported to hold forth. Noother '95 man nearer than Thompson atSalt Lake City."
Joe Ford's business address is 300 Madison Ave., New York City.
Henry C. Morrison, he formerly of the black and short moustache, the industrious student of the class, is doing highly important work as an educator. He is a professor in the department of education at the University of Chicago. He is an authority on the underlying economics and finance of the public school system and on the theory and practice of teaching. During the past eight years he has published the following important books:"Practice of Teaching in the SecondarySchool," 1926; revised edition, 1931. "School Revenue," 1930. "Management of School Money," 1932. "Basic Principles in Education," 1934.
He has served on two commissions in the study of the financing of the public school system.
His son John is a member of the University of Chicago faculty (economic geography); Hugh Morrison is assistant professor of the fine arts at Dartmouth; Robert obtained a master's degree in history at Chicago after a semester at the Harvard Business School. He spent part of a year in Turkey in archaeological excavation. During the past year he has had charge of a crew of men in northern Alabama, making excavations in the archaeology of the American Indian.
Hugh, the Dartmouth professor, married Elizabeth Newman, daughter of Prof. H. H. Newman of the Chicago University faculty. John married, two years ago, Frederica, a daughter of the late Otto Mohrenstecher of Quincy, Ill.
"P. I." thinks it improbable that he will attend the reunion next June, much as he would like to.
Dr. Baketell writes, with reference to Carleton: "Joe and I were happy at havingthe opportunity of paying our respects andof doing the little we could for our oldfriend and classmate."
Editor, White River Jct., Vt.
