Class of 1893
Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. French o£ the 197th Field Artillery (A. A.), New Hampshire National Guard, reaches the retirement age this fall. This fact was recalled by his fellow officers at this summer's tour of duty of the regiment at Rye, and in their behalf Colonel Clarence E. Rexford presented him with a handsome clock, suitably inscribed. Lietuenant Colonel French made an apt response, expressing his regrets at severing his active connection with the regiment.
Harry B. Metcalf, Democrat, editor and publisher of the Newport Argus-Champion, has as the Washington, D. C., correspondent of his paper John H. Bartlett '94, former Republican governor of New Hampshire, now a stropg supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Republican readers of the Argus-Champion, bothered by the Bartlett letters, were pleased when Colonel Walter W. Brown, of the Ritz Tower, New York, and Granliden, Lake Sunapee, made vigorous reply in the columns of the Newport paper to Freshman Bartlett.
Mrs. Guy W. Cox, of Chichester Brook Farm, is president of the newly formed Pittsfield Garden Club, which put on a fine flower show in August. During the same month Guy followed his annual custom of entertaining at the farm a group of his Greater Boston classmates.
Mr. and Mrs. James V. Stillings were, as usual, heads of committees for the Old Home Week celebration in Surry, N. H.
Rufus H. Baker was bereaved, this summer, of his mother at the age of 94 years.
Information wanted of Pelton's present address. His was the only letter containing the annual '93 bulletin which was returned to the Secretary.
As a result of the bulletin the Secretary received during the summer a number of interesting letters, which he will print as occasion offers in the class notes of the MAGAZINE. Kellar writes of his election to membership in the American Geophysical- Union in recognition of 15 years of geodetic work in Cuba, and adds:'
They say I used to be a horse for work.However that may be, I am now in thestud at the V. S. Hydrographic Office,—that is, on the shelf,—doing such work aswriting texts in hydrographic surveying;instructing Navy P. G. officers destined tobe assigned to surveying duty; and actingas consulting engineer in matters pertaining to surveying and field astronomy.For the nature of work pursued on my own100k, see my ad in Popular Astronomy."
Also in the Secretary's mail is a very interesting synopsis by Professor Perley Orkland Place of the work of the department of classical languages and archaeology in the College of Liberal Arts of Syracuse University. The department is concerned, Pop says, "with 'The Legacy of Greece andRome,' the indebtedness of the modernworld to the civilization of the Greeks andRomans."
Secretary, 104 North State St., Concord, N. H.
