Class of 1900
Paul Redington, after an interlude as chief of the Biological Survey, is back in forestry work. With headquarters at Cody, Wyoming, he has been supervisor of the Shoshone National Forest; with its antelope, deer, moose, elk, mountain lions, and bear; with its trees filled with birds, and its streams teeming with various species .of trout. Unfortunate was the forest fire .of last summer, two months in duration. Paul describes graphically one aeroplane flight over the area, to map the burning region. An altitude of 13,000 feet was necessary to avoid the heat, with occasional vertical drops of 400 feet or more, as •cross currents hit the plane.,
In December he came to Washington to visit his family at Falls Church, Va., ■and was asked by the Chief Forester to take on new work at forestry headquarters, where he is now located.
Those who visit the Washington zoo may remember the large Kodiak bear, •brought as a cub by Paul from Alaska. This female was quartered with a male polar bear, and, in the normal course of events, brought forth a family of four; a cross hitherto unknown. Whether such miscegenation is to be regarded as commendable is referred to those who specialize in sociology or natural history.
The floods again hit Walter Rankin's Weatherboard mill at Bath, N. H., as in 1927- The stock was much injured, an -abundance of mud was left behind, but the building was undamaged. Walter says it might have been worse.
The Chicago group, including Jed Prouty, is not very communicative, but there has come into the Secretary's hands a large picture from the Chicago Tribune, entitled, "Cheering Throng of 31,302 Sees Dramatic Battle Concluding Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions." All the 21,30 a are included in the photograph, but more conspicuous than any of the 21,301 others is Jed, as large as life and handsome as usual. The further information is given that the crowd paid $35,026 to see the exhibition, so it is apparent that Jed at one time had $1.62, which is a good deal of money for these days. Or perhaps he is intimate with the mayor and drew a pass.
Dr. Jim and Mrs. Woodman came to Hanover for the Country Ball, given for the benefit of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital. Of all of us, Jim preserves his youthful figure most successfully. His younger boy entered the freshman class from Andover last fall, while the older son is in the insurance business.
Harry Marshall has been transferred from the theological school in Burma, with which he has been connected so long, to the Karen mission at Toungoo.
For some time Dick Hall's House has been having Charlie Proctor as a guest. Charles has been entirely too busy teaching physics, supervising the Outing Club, helping direct the athletic affairs of the College, photographing birds, etc., and so has been placed in a position where he has to rest, whether he likes it or not.
An interesting letter from Arthur Roberts tell of his activities as senior master and head of the English department of Saint George's School, at Newport, R. 1., with which he has been associated for over thirty years. In addition to his teaching, he has much to do with the management of the school, and is active in the work of the College Entrance Examination Board and other educational groups. While twice a grandfather, he is still good at tennis, and considers himself too active to go over, or rather back, to golf. During the long school vacation, when he is not bicycling in Europe (for he says he abhors every gasoline association), he is at his summer home in New Hampshire. A pleasant, useful, enviable life it seems to the Secretary, who, nevertheless, is too active for either tennis or golf, who thinks the automobile a mark of progress, and who spends his winters in New Hampshire, and his summers in some such cool resort as Washington, D. C.
The class has received from Mac the details of the plan for the purchase of a tract near Mt. Moosilauke as a memorial to Natt Emerson. From personal observation, the Secretary knows how tirelessly Natt worked on the Moosilauke project and how much he had it at heart. No memorial to him could be conceived which would be more fitting, or which would have pleased him so much.
Secretary, ii North Park St., Hanover, N. H.
