Class of 1907

Robert Pelren, son of Harry Pelren, is a student at Phillips Andover Academy and has recently participated in hockey competition at Lake Placid, N. Y., as a member of the Andover team.

Helen and Bill Cummings enjoyed a vacation trip to the Pacific Coast during December, and have recently returned to their home near Skowhegan, Me. Their oldest child, Bill Jr., is winning laurels as a portrait painter. He has a studio on Chestnut St. in Boston and is a very cordial host. Another son, King, is an undergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Harry McDevitt extends greetings (through the class secretary) to his classmates. Harry has been engaged in the household furniture business in Boston for some years and reports reasonable progress.

Bruno Kimball's son, William Rice Kimball Jr., is a freshman at Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. Bruno spent last spring in southern California, the summer at his home in Ogden, Utah, and is now in San Francisco, where it is reported he may locate permanently and where his daughter, who was graduated from Stanford last June, is now employed.

The Class Baby makes the headlines again! Mary Beals sailed on January 5 on the S. S. Rex of the Italian line for missionary work in South Africa under the sponsorship of the American Board of Foreign Missions. Mary will teach Latin and other subjects in a girls' school near Durban, Natal, and will remain in Africa for three years. A service of godspeed was held in her honor at the Congregational church in Ipswich, Mass., on January 2 Mary's sister, Ruth, has recently announced her engagement to Harry Clemens Buell, son of Mr. Charles E. Buell, Petersham, Mass.

A letter from Harry B. Johnson 1904, received just too late for publication in the January MAGAZINE, reads as follows:

"A letter from my daughter, who isteaching in Nevada, tells of the death ofChauncey Wayland Smith 190 J, state superintendent of schools of Nevada. He wasburied December 7 in Reno. As he wasstricken suddenly, you may not have heardof it. I have heard my daughter speak ofhim often and that he was highly regarded.His brother was in my class of 1904."

The Secretary has been unable to supplement this brief report and knows nothing further of Chauncey Smith's activities since graduation, his family, or the circumstances of his death. Most of us will, however, remember the big fellow from Norridgewock, Me., and K. U. A., who represented us on our class football teams and on the varsity squad, and all will regret his untimely death.

Secretary, 80 Federal St., Boston