Class of 1897

Channing Folsom died last month, and I am glad that I knew him. He was Kid Folsom's father, and in 1897 he was superintendent of schools in Dover. I applied to him for a position as a grammar school principal. He did not take me. He took from our class two better men. First, Edgar D. Cass, and second, George E. Foss.

Later I was the Dover superintendent of schools, and Kid's sisters were neighbors and were teachers in my schools. The schools bore the impress of Folsom's forceful administration. Channing Folsom was very human. His older son, Henry was a Dartmouth graduate, a scholar, and a model youth, but I think the father loved Kid best among the children. Mr. Folsom was the superintendent of public instruction for New Hampshire at a time when common education in the state was a sporadic development. Forceful, dominating, unwearied, unforgetful of minor courtesies, he created a state system of schools, and he remained in office until those who loved child labor in the mills more than children themselves ordered him to be replaced. The men who followed him in the state office,—Morrison '95, the writer, and the distinguished leader of public education in New Hampshire today, Pringle '97, all had the advantage of his pioneering work and made effective the ideals which he dedared.

In his last years he lived on the farm that the Folsoms took from the Indians, and Channing Folsom was the autocrat of his town, the educational philosopher of younger school men, a lover of Dartmouth, and of the classmates of his sons. His last letter to me was an announcement of the death of our Joe Towle.

For six years after 1927, Pender was manager of the Bankruptcy Division for the New York Credit Men's Association. From 1933, he has been busily concerned with the practice of law in Brooklyn, N. Y. He resides in Brooklyn, but has a summer home on the South Shore. For activities, he reports golf in the summer, ping-pong in the winter. He also reports "one husky son,Michael Roger."

For many years, Day has been a practicing physician in New York City and in other New York towns. It is reported that he has been twice married and that he has three children. The youngest of these is now in college.

Wallace was for a term a district attorney for Queens county in New York. He has had also much private legal practice and has been connected with judicial cases of great importance.

After the conclusion of his college course, Alley was in business in Middletown, Conn. Later he moved to Union, N. H., and there for a prolonged period he has been engaged in general mercantile affairs.

Franklin B. Goodenow, affectionately nicknamed by us, "The Admiral," was a member of the class for about two years. His early home was in Bangor. Goodenow's work has been in Virginia. He lives in Portsmouth and is employed by the Virginia Express Company.

Secretary, State Capitol, Hartford, Conn.