Class of 1906
The sympathy of the entire class of 1906 goes out to the two homes into which death has entered in the last month. The loss of our beloved Tubby Gray comes close to us all. Flowers were sent to his funeral in the name of the class, and Elon Pratt and Thurmond Brown attended the services. An account of Tubby's life will be found in the Necrology section of the MAGAZINE.
We grieve, too, with Charles Crane and his family in their great sorrow. Charles Jr., the only son, died in New York City on January 28. Those who attended the reunion last June will remember the boy most happily for the quiet, pleasant manner with which he greeted his father's classmates. He was twenty-two years old, a graduate of Swarthmore in 1936, with high honors in philosophy. A brilliant student, he spent last semester in graduate study at the University of Vermont and had gone to New York to take a business position only two weeks before his death. Funeral services were held on January 31 in Brattleboro, Vt., where the Cranes lived before moving to Montpelier in 1933.
Ralph Thompson is now in the employ of the United States Department of the Interior, at State Park No. 1, Milton, Mass. His address is 34 Alpha Road, Dorchester.
In the editorial comments of the Rutland Herald recently on the appointments to state boards made by Governor George D. Aiken of Vermont, we find this compliment to a classmate: "Stephen S. Gushing,reappointed to the Public Service Commission, is a man who had a sound fundamental grasp of law-making when he wasappointed to the commission, since whenhe has become not only an authority onthe laws applying to public utilities but asactive executive of the commission hasearned a good reputation for fair-mindedness and diligence."
Roy and Rachel Merchant have announced the engagement of their daughter Esther to Hunter Romaine of Peters- burg, Va. Esther is a junior at Smith, and Mr. Romaine is a senior in the medical school of the University of Virginia.
Dave Main is planning this spring to take his family south to New Orleans and Florida, and then up the coast to New England, where he and Mrs. Main will leave their younger daughter Gretchen with her older sister Betty in Boston for some months. In Boston Gretchen expects to continue her studies, taking some spe- cial course.
The Kosciuszko Foundation's fourth annual "Night in Poland" Ball was held in the grand ball-room suite of the Waldorf- Astoria in New York on February 3. It was entitled this year "A Night in Old Krakow," and the chief feature of the entertainment was an elaborate medieval pageant depicting the coronation of Queen Jadwiga in the historic market square of Old Krakow in 1384, in which several hundred students and young men and women of society participated. The script for this pageant was written by Eric Kelly, who, you will remember, was once a Kosciuszko Foundation Scholar in Poland and whose books for children based on historic Polish backgrounds have become so widely and justly famous. The ball was held "underthe patronage of several hundred members of society and the worlds of art, education, the theatre, and diplomatic andcivic circles," and in the list of patrons we find, of course, the names of Eric and Katherine Kelly.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
