Class of 1891

Indirectly the Secretary is informed that Ferda Fish suffered the loss of his wife recently.

At the Dartmouth dinner on February 9, at the Copley-Plaza, Abbott, Barrows, and Rowe were seated at the table with several '9O and '92 men with a most cordial feeling present. Bailey came in rather late, and listened from the gallery to one of the best programs the Boston alumni have put on.

Barrows writes as follows: "Can't give you much dope about the class except the Barrows family. Last year I was laid low with gangrene in my ankle for eleven weeks and was then on crutches for a month or two, and not clear of it until August. Then in November, going to visit John, my contribution to the class of '3B, May and I went through Lyme the Sunday before Thanksgiving and had a skidtried to knock down an oak tree and succeeded in cracking Mary's right kneecap, so that she had a plaster cast on the leg for six weeks, the first two in the Mary Hitchcock Hospital. She is getting around again now. Naturally that has kept me close to the house, so we haven't seen much of interest to the class. I got cut some and sprained my left wrist and my right shoulder, but I am as good as new, ankle and all. John '3B I think represents the earliest class, as no father, at least in his class, belongs back further than '9l. So '9l has still direct connection with the College. If any one is looking for a good, lively boy, I am in the market, for they retire me this June—who said a '9l man is too old to teach? Well, that's that. Here is looking forward enthusiastically to the '4l reunion. Mary has been away from the legislature up to now, but expects the knee to allow her to return by the middle of February."

Edson writes from West Palm Beach, Fla., that he and Mrs. Edson had an unexpected visit from their son and daughter at Christmas time. The latter with her husband and little daughter came in from Alabama. Their son Andrew, Dartmouth '25, a consul in the Foreign Service, has been stationed in Oslo, Norway, the past year. He has accepted an offer to take a graduate course at an American university that he may be fitted to analyze and report on conditions abroad, and has begun his studies at Harvard. This is the second instance of the State Department's sponsoring such a course of special training.

Barrows raises the age question in 'gi in two ways, both as reaching the retirement age of 70 and also harking back to 1891 as the oldest contributor to the class of 1938 by graduates of Dartmouth. That calls attention to the fact that this year Hopkins, Heath, Burbank, Barrows French, Quint, and Woodcock reach the age of seventy. Sturgis is still the youngest member of '9l, born November 23, 1873.

From Dave Conant comes a note: "1 have plodded along in the old-fashionedway, with nothing spectacular or strangehappening as the years pass."

Following is a self-explanatory letter from Sid Walker:

"I received your letter of January 29, which arrived by Clipper on Wednesday, February 2, which was reasonably prompt delivery considering the distance. I am sorry to say that Clipper schedules have been seriously upset of late by bad weather, etc., so there is no way of getting a reply to you by February 8 as you re- quested, as the last Clipper to the coast left on February 1 and the next one in sight appears to be February 14. I am, however, sending this air mail across the country so that it will reach you a little in advance of ordinary mail, in the vain hope that it might serve'your purpose.

"The local alumni have a dinner about once a month, and they are always cheerful gatherings, with occasionally someone from the mainland who happens to be in Honolulu.

"Kate and I have a new little home eleven miles outside the city and have been kept busy all of our spare time in developing shrubbery, planting trees, and nursing the lawn, so I have not attended the last couple of dinners, but hope to do better from now on.

"Our family have all been enjoying good health, which is to be expected in this salubrious climate with most of the days bright, sunny, and cheerful, except for those on which Nature seems to feel that a little irrigation is necessary for the benefit of crops and vegetation. We have had no cold weather, of course, but once in a while when the thermometer tickles 6o° everyone curls up and gets out a vest or some extra rainment to tide over such cold spells.

"Honolulu is feeling the so-called repression very little, as agricultural activities continue without interruption and general business is up to standard. Right now our work is piling up so that we are extending ourselves to the limit to take care of it, but, of course, this is all to the good and quite in contrast with many sections of the mainland we learn of through newspaper reports and visitors to jjje islands.

"There is no particular fear of war with Japan, although, of course, the government is planning on further protective assets both for the Army and the Navy. The Japanese population of the Islands is now largely of the second and third generation from the original laborers brought in years ago, and they are sufficiently American to realize the many advantages there are here compared with conditions in the old country.

"I am sorry that Alice had to go through the trial of an abscessed tooth, but those things seem to visit us more frequently as we get along in years. We hope that she has been relieved of further trouble from that particular experience and that she will have a period of comfort from now on.

"Please convey my best personal regards to any of the boys you may meet up with and the best wishes of the small group of alumni who are resident here."

ALUMNI FUND RECORD FOR 1937

H contributors (39% of graduates),total gifts of $323.83 (45% of objective).

WILLIAM E. STANLEY, Class Agent

CONTRIBUTORS

1891 Abbott, Charles F.1 Abbott, John Bailey, William T. Bugbee, Edmund J. Dußois, Charles G. French, Arthur W. Gray, Edward W. T. Heald, Franklin H. B. Lord, Edward T. S. O'Brien, Robert L. Richardson, Dan C. Rowe, Frank E. Smith, Charles M. Stanley, William E. 1 Income from MemorialFund.

Secretary, 80 Federal St., Boston