Class of 1900
This is one of the months when the class breaks into prominence in the criminal courts, through the fact that one of its worthy members has played a leading role in a widely advertised murder trial. Not, we hasten to say, in the star role—that of the culprit—but as a principal witness. In the trial of Howard Long in the courts of Belknap County (New Hampshire), the first one in the state for over twenty years to result in the verdict of guilty with the death penalty, Dr. Charles Dolloff, the psychiatrist, was a leading expert, and, as usual, his clear painstaking testimony, marked by complete fairness, was highly effective.
While Charles was thus achieving prominence, others were retiring from lifelong occupations. On January 1 Clarence McDavitt terminated his active services as vice-president of the New England Telephone Company. Mac came to Boston in 1911 as assistant to E. K. Hall '92, then counsel for the company, and when, in the next year, Mr. Hall became vice-president of the organization, he took Mac with him to continue his work as his assistant. Some time later Mac himself was made vice-president in charge of public and industrial relations, a position he has since retained. Now, at sixty, some time before the compulsory age of retirement, he ceases to be an active employee, believing that his time from now on is as important to himself as to anyone else. Anyone knowing Mac—his industry, his wide range of interest, his energy, his inveterate habit of taking a kindly and useful interest in the welfare of others—knows that for him retirement does not mean stagnation; in fact probably he will be busier than ever before. The best wishes of the class go to him in these years in which his time is to be his own. From now on the address, 50 Oliver St., Boston, so familiar to all of us, is changed to 212 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass.
Paul Redington also retires in January after a service to the government lasting thirty-four years, the larger part of it spent in the forestry service, but including seven years as chief of the biological survey. His life has been marked by a high degree of activity with little chance for rest, and the assumption of heavy responsibilities of a great variety of types. Unfortunately his health is not so good as his great multitude of friends wish it were and hope that it may be in the future.
Ben Prescott has been ill and has wor- ried his physicians themselves almost into illness by the mysterious nature of his malady. After repeated tests and much cogitation they finally came to the conclusion that his ailment was a ruptured diaphragm and that an operation, of a nature very seldom called for, was necessary. This operation was performed early in January, and Ben stood the ordeal well. He made the Boston papers by his expressed willingness to have the operation done in the amphitheatre of the hospital (Massachusetts General) for the benefit of a medical audience, which might be attracted by its unusual character.
Day Condit has also been seriously ill,
and has not been able to attend to his work with the Ditto Company in Chicago since August. We all hope for the rapid recovery of both of them.
John Putnam has changed his base. The work of building trails and roads over the Vermont mountains, with headquarters at Waterbury, ended late in September, and Put is now employed in sales work for the Rexair Company, manufacturers of air washers and conditioners, and is located at 44 North St., Montpelier, Vt.
Harry Jenkins writes of an interesting trip during the summer with Dr. and Mrs. Butterfield to Lake Ontario, the Adirondacks, and Vermont, climbing as an incident of the journey Whiteface, Mansfield, and Kearsarge.
John Ash is shared by our class with '99, but he is a big enough man to divide his allegiance without either group feeling itself slighted. He is active as owner and manager of the Builders' Supply at Corvallis, Oregon, is president of the Concrete Pipe Manufacturers of Oregon, and moreover, is head of a family of patriarchal proportions. He sat down to Christmas dinner with his wife, two sons, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, and six grandchildren. Two of his children could not be present on that occasion. His work keeps him very busy, but still he finds time for play, and tells tales of the capture of fish two feet long (or some such figure), all of which sounds startling to the effete East. John, however, claims that he never was much of a hand to tell fish stories.
It seems good to hear once more from Victor Salinger, who has not, of late, been a frequent correspondent. Vic was hard hit by the depression, but set to work with that energy with which we are all familiar, and is now back upon his feet again, with promising prospects for the future. His address is 1909 Huntington Drive, South Pasadena, Calif.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
