Class of 1902

How time does fly! Yesterday was January and tomorrow will be August. But now I must clear my desk of the last material for this season, so that we may start with a fresh supply next fall.

Leslie and Clara Farr called the other day and added to the sunshine in our house. For the first time I learned that Leslie put down the new pavement in the block in which stands the building where I go through those operations which I describe to my family as "working." The sample is all right, but I think we should have more of such streets.

Leslie brought some news of Bill Howard, who is our representative in the Chase National Bank. Thanks, Bill, for even an indirect word, we are glad to know you are still active and cheerful.

However, I found that the Farrs misunderstood my parting, word in the April issue. Of course I said "And now for the garden," but as long as I am writing for your benefit, not for my own, naturally that meant your garden. If I went to work in my wife's garden she would never get over the shock, and that certainly would not be right. So I beg you not to think I am always referring to myself.

Thanks to Stevens '01, we can quote this clipping from the Manchester Union:

"Kingston, April i.—At a meeting of theboard of selectmen, Laburton G. Cilley wasappointed welfare agent for the town. Mr.Cilley, a graduate of Sanborn Seminary inthe class of 1898, has served as town clerkfor two years and was a member of theboard of selectmen for two years. His appointment has the approval of the countycommissioners. Mr. Cilley was also electedchairman of a committee at the last townmeeting to investigate the cost of electricity for street lights and other purposesin the town."

Kendall Banning in the National MunicipalReview for March comes right out and says some more about town meetings. I commend this article to your attention, especially if you are planning to take up some of that New England real estate as a place on which you can plan to retire and live an independent life in old colonial style. But K. B. is constructive as well as critical, and his ideas merit consideration.

It isn't my job to speak for the Alumni Fund, but being myself dependent on the welfare of one of these private educational institutions I can't help looking, in a very intimate way at the matter of keeping them alive and vigorous. To me it seems that we owe too much to them to permit them to be discarded. So long as they maintain a healthy and forward-looking policy without fear and without bending to political influence, so long as they continue independent and constructive, they represent one of the strongest, if not the strongest, features of our whole liberal existence. To me it is unthinkable that collectively we should shrug our shoulders and pass on. This task must be carried on, and if we are unwilling to do our share, who then will carry the load?

However it is my job to boost the ALUMNIMAGAZINE and do what little I am able to keep it continually in your minds. I am thankful that it is not necessary to search among the class for subscribers, that by vote of the class you are all subscribers. It is my fervent hope that you all agree to such an extent that next year there will be no doubt in the minds of our executive officers that the class as a whole meant what it voted to do years ago. I am convinced that it is a fine investment for the class, but I also know that Denny Lyons wonders a little at times whether he is going to be in the red when June, 1937, rolls around.

Thus ends the record of this academic year, and we mark the oncoming of the summer and the out-of-door period when we pretend that our golf swings are really getting better each year, and really learn that after all we haven't quite grown up yet. Good hunting to you all, may you find during these few months all those things for which men seek! All the time keep a little corner in your heart for the class secretary, who has promised himself that next fall he is again going to bet with his daughter that this time he will get returns from at least forty of you. So long until fall.

Secretary, 130 Woodridge Place, Leonia, N. J.