Class of 1889

Bard was called to Chicago early in December by the death of his older brother, who had been paymaster at the Stevens Hotel from its opening until two days before his death. In January he drove from his home in Maplewood, N. J., to Nashville, Tenn., to visit his son Robert (Dartmouth '19) The following is a part of a letter from Ralph Bartlett, dated February 16: "Last Monday, thenth inst., I was admitted as a member ofthe bar of York county, Maine, before theSupreme Judicial Court of Maine sittingat the shire town of Alfred. It was for reasons of sentiment rather than as a steptoward resuming active practice that thismove was made. Back in colonial days,when Maine was a part of Massachusetts,and the present county of York wascalled Yorkshire and constituted the entire Province of Maine, a justice of theCourt of Yorkshire was a member of theBartlett family through which I trace mya?icestry, his name being John HeardBartlett of that part of Kittery, now Eliot(my native town), who graduated fromHarvard in the class of 1747, he being thefirst of the name of 'Bartlett' to graduate from Harvard. You can readily understand, therefore, my desire to becomea member of the oldest bar in what isnow Maine, admission to which involvessigning an ancient register which containsthe signatures of those admitted to thisbar from the present, time back to the18th century in colonial times whenMaine was a part of Massachusetts." .... Frank Bugbee, hale and hearty and having just passed his seventieth birthday, made a brief call on the Secretary recently while in Boston on a hurried business trip from his home in Keene, N. H Warden wrote from Washington, March 3, that he was hurrying back home (Great Falls, Montana), to be present at, and have a small part in, the wedding of his second daughter, Gertrude, who was to marry Marvin L. McKee on March 9. Gertrude is the fourth of "Doc's" five children to marry. She graduated from the Anna Head School for Girls, at Berkeley, Calif., and later studied at the Ossining (-on-Hudson, N. Y.) School for Girls. Recently she has worked on Dad's paper, in the news room of the Great Falls Tribune

Ralph Bartlett and the Secretary represented the class at the annual dinner of the Boston Association, March 7.

Secretary, 87 Milk St., Boston