Class of 1878
A request from the Minnesota Historical Society for a copy of our "Narrative of aHalf Century" led to the discovery that fifteen members of the class had located in Minnesota for longer or shorter periods, but that state is to be credited with the entire professional careers of only two, A. C. Paul and Perley, although Dexter, who is remembered at Hanover as Solus Smith, after an early sojourn there in the course of his far wanderings, returned to end his experimental life in the suburbs of Minneapolis.
The names and locations are as follows: Biaikie, Moorhead; Burleigh, Austin; Carpenter, Marshall; Dana, Ashby; Dewey, St. Paul; Dexter, Minneapolis; Hotaling, Moorhead; Kenaston, Owatonna; Know- land, Brownsville; Parkinson, Fergus Falls; A. C. Paul, Minneapolis; Perley, Moorhead; Stevens, Minneapolis; Tarbell, Mankato; Wood, Sauk City.
Brown says that if there were anything new or interesting about himself he would tell us, but that he is well and is doing the same work that has occupied his attention for years. He doesn't seem to know that this is interesting, and would be new if others of us could say it. He reports a call from Bouton, who he says hasn't changed. Brown missed the Harvard game this year for the first time in many years. Parkhurst, who called on Brown on his way to or from one of the Hanover games, confirms his assertion that he is doing as he has done for years. Says he found him in the identical position in which he saw him two years earlier, seated at his desk with sheets of stocks and bond reports, markets, etc., studying them very carefully. There would seem to be something new and interesting in the present situation of the Amoskeag Mills, which must be getting a portion of Brown's attention.
Missing the name of Montgomery's son, Wilder P., in the new Register of Living Alumni led to inquiry, which brings word of his death soon after his return from the 25th reunion of his class ('06). Those of us who remember meeting him at our own 35th or who read his fine letters at the time of his father's death will feel a warm sympathy with his family in the loss of one so useful and so full of promise. Mrs. Montgomery (senior) now lives with a daughter in Chicago, and is reported by her grandson, Wilder P. (1931), to be "in fairly goodhealth, afflicted by only those minor ailments, which Holmes claimed promotelongevity."
Gray reports no marked failure in his ability to take care of three meals a day or to sleep all night and an hour or two during the day.
Of his six grandchildren, one grandaughter is a graduate of Middlebury, and now teaching; another is now a junior at Middlebury; two others are to graduate somewhere in 1944 and 1951 respectively. Of the two grandsons, one is now a junior at Middlebury, and the other a freshman at Dartmouth.
Gray's comments on the New Deal seem to have escaped last month's summary. He likes The New Deal a Great Deal, and thinks if the Dealers would amalgamate with the Townsend crowd and combine the $200 a month with our checks for the hogs we don't raise, the results would be Ideal. But he suspects that the earthquake that jarred him some months ago was caused by the founders of the Constitution turning m their graves.
Secretary, 381 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass
