1895

The management of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE have felt obliged to request that class notes be limited in volume. For '95 it is suggested that about two or not more than three typed pages double-spaced is sufficient.

A copy of the October issue of the MAGAZINE has been sent to each member of the class free of charge (to non-subscribers) in the hope that every member of the class will subscribe, taking advantage of the $2.00 rate for the older classes under the 100% subscription plan.

"Dud" West's youngest daughter, Margaret, was married July 23 at the parental home. A reception followed. "Dud" states that there will be no more weddings in his family, as he has no more unmarried children. He ignores the possibility of "seconds."

"Since the flood" is no longer a current expression in Hanover and in fact in New England. It is now "since the hurricane," and that is packed with meaning and emotion. On the Sunday following the hurricane, I was motoring from Lebanon to Hanover over the Freeman Hill. I had stopped at a filling station and heard some one calling, "Hello, Steve." It was Ned Rossiter's voice. He was afoot and alone. His car was stalled some distance behind him for lack of gasoline, and he was in quest of that indispensable liquid. But the hurricane had knocked down electric light wires and the gasoline pumps were silent. I conveyed him to a hand-operated gasoline pump, and the day was saved to Ned and Mrs. Rossiter and his two guests.

To a '95 man the sight of great trees of all kinds lying like dead soldiers on the ground in the College Park was a sad one. Perhaps the park is not entirely ruined, but it was horribly mutilated by the hurricane. There appeared to be only slight damage to houses and other buildings in Hanover. There has been mortality among the beautiful elm trees, however.

"Bug" Folsom and Mrs. Folsom called at my home September 12. They had been touring and were on their way back from Canada. We spent a pleasant evening together. They had formerly visited Dan Watson at his summer retreat in Pittsford.

I recently had greetings from "Tommie" Thompson. He was in Salt Lake City, but will doubtless be going to California soon for his usual sojourn there and for duck hunting en route.

"Willie" Wilson reports that he and Mrs. Wilson were in Mexico at the time the American and British petroleum properties were confiscated. He says—"We saw no evidence of hostilities to Americans, but the nationalist feeling is very intense. 'Mexico for the Mexicans' is their creed, and it is played up by the jingo politicians for all it is worth and their own political power." In July Mr. and Mrs. Wilson went to Holland, Belgium, France, and England. Of this trip he writes—"In France the people are very jittery, and in England it is expected, if war comes, that conscription will be enforced from the beginning. All summer long the European countries have been buying grain and shipping it from Montreal."

"Walt" Lane reports—"Hard hit by the storm. Was in Hanover for lunch in early September and called on Austin to congratulate him on the ant houses. Will have no active service in any more wars, which I believe inevitable."

"Billy" Foster passed the greater part of the summer in Concord, N. H.

Fred and Mrs. Cleaveland spent a quiet summer at their cottage on Martin Meadow Pond in New Hampshire. Their son Paul had charge of the Club House at the Waumbek Hotel in the White Mountains for the third season. Dorothy remained at her desk in the Administration Building in Hanover during the summer. I saw Fred a few moments at Commencement in Hanover.

In his recent book, "It Can Be Done," Edgar Guest devotes space to our Austin, the Ant House King.

Mrs. Rice has recovered her health. Sliver and she visited their children in Plainfield, N. J., and Syracuse, N. Y., during the summer, and spent three weeks in Lincolnville, Me. Sliver was at the Longwood Tennis Tournament during the rainy week in July and during the National Doubles. He helped as linesman and umpire.

Secretary, White River Junction, Vt.