Class of 1890

John F. McDonald, prominent in Demo- cratic politics in Boston for many years, has been appointed a member of the Transit Commission by Mayor Mansfield. He succeeds Nathan Heller in this $7,500 position. A former chairman of the Democratic state committee, Mac brought out Eugene N. Foss as a candidate for Congress in the Cape district and later as a gubernatorial candidate, and also brought out Senator David I. Walsh as a candidate for lieutenant governor. Born in Jamaica Plain, December 18, 1861, Mac graduated from Boston University Law School three years after he got out of college. He en- tered the office of his brother-in-law, Judge John W. Corcoran, a law partner of Gen. Collins, and was a loyal supporter of Collins for seventeen years. He also managed the successful campaign of John F. Fitzgerald against James J. Storrow for mayor. He is married, resides at 4.0 Orchard Hill Road, Forest Hills, and has a wife and three children. He was at one time in partner- ship with our classmate, Dan Ruggles.

Ex-Senator George H. Moses headed the list of seven speakers at the annual Lin- coln night dinner of the Middlesex club, at the Hotel Statler in Boston on the eve- ning of February 12.

Secretary, 45 Wakefield St., Rochester, N. H.