Class of 1895

Here is next to the last installment of class letters.

"This is in reply to your letter of August 11, which came at a time when I was swamped with work owing to the illness of my associate.

"Life for us is progressing routinely with the usual professional duties demanded by private practice and attendance at the University of Minnesota as director of the Division of Otolaryngology.

"Mrs. Newhart and I spent three weeks in the East the latter part of May and the first of June, chiefly attending national medical meetings in New York and Atlantic City.

"Last summer Mrs. Newhart and I greatly enjoyed a seven weeks' vacation when we attended the Third International Congress of Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialists in Berlin. We also had opportunity to revisit Vienna, where on several occasions I had post graduate work in otolaryngology.

"The work of our committee on deafness prevention and amelioration is receiving more attention than ever before. This has been a neglected field, and it is gratifying to see evidence of a growing interest in the large number who visited our exhibit at the American Medical Association meeting in Atlantic City.

"I often look back on the very pleasant class reunion two years ago.

"With the best of good wishes to all the members of the class, I am

"Very cordially yours, "HORACE NEWHART."

"In due course I have received both your notes trying to extract from me some bit of news, and my twofold excuse for a delayed response is that there isn't any news and my conscience hurts me.

"The reason there is no news is just there ain't, but my conscience has a darn good reason for being painful. I spent the month of July and a part of August in Cambridge and Rockport, Mass., with my boy, and never let you know about it. You and Ann may have made a trip to Boston at the very time I was in that burg. I hope not, for that would make matters worse. Had I just gotten in touch with you I might even have made a trip to Hartford just to see you two good old friends, but right there comes in my laissez faire characteristics.

"In June we had a family reunion here when we were all able to get into one place at the same time. Then we scattered. Hildegarde returned West, Walcott and I drove to Cambridge in my new car—La Salle—, and Dot and Bill remained here, which is their temporary home. The other day Walcott and I drove to Akron whence he returned by train, and an old Salt Lake friend, whose father has just died, joined me and we motored to Joliet, where he caught a train for St. Louis, where he has been visiting while I have been here awaiting the arrival of my granddaughter's first birthday, which comes tomorrow. The next day my friend joins me here and we motor to Salt Lake with a stop at a friend's ranch in Wyoming in the hope of getting a few days of chicken shooting, but I am not quite sure of Wyoming's open season, although I think it is just about now.

"When I arrive home the big change comes. I am going to take an apartment and try it out with a housekeeper to take care of me. The old home is on the market and probably will not bring more than a third of its original cost. That's the way with big houses these days. I could philosophize for pages on this situation, but it is hardly necessary with your powers of imagination in full bloom.

"After about ten days my new address will be: 105 East South Temple St.

"This afternoon, when my son-in-law gets away from the Airport he plans to drive me over to Moline, where I hope to see West. I couldn't find him by myself, as these three towns are the most confusing to strangers that I have ever seen.

"I hope you and Ann and the boys have been well and enjoyed a happy summer.

"In general all goes well with me, and [ expect another grandchild in Massachusetts in October to be named either John or Joan Walcott, so you see the old man still rates.

"The weather here during my visit has been very comfortable and not at all like the summers of the Middle-West we read about, but I hope the drive through Nebraska will not be any hotter, for that is a dreary State at best, but from there on the altitude increases and so does one's comfort.

"Sincerely, "TOMMY."

"The least the members of the class should do is to acknowledge your letter and commend your efforts in our behalf.

"My doings are 'not much to write about.' My duties on the building committee of our church are practically finished, as we have been using the building since last September. It is a simple but beautiful structure consistently Colonial, and the committee members have had a rewarding sense of accomplishment at the general satisfaction in its actual use.

"For other recreation I bowl during the winter and play tennis all year indoor and outdoor at Longwood. Just this present week I am doing less playing but finding plenty to see at the Club, with nearly all the world's tennis stars cavorting in the National Doubles. I help with the dog work of lining and umpiring.

"We have taken trips to Syracuse and New Jersey to see our grandchildren. Any of the class who live near their grandchildren should appreciate that privilege as compared with us, who see ours hardly once a year.

"In July we visited at my niece's in Hanover for a brief time. I was interested in the improvement in the grounds around the Inn. The town as a whole looks very fine.

"I thought of you while in Hanover, but our stay was too short to get in touch with you

"Yours sincerely, "SLIVER."

"Always glad to hear from you because you have such a close touch on the activities of the boys of yesteryear.

"Wish you could have been with us on a trip to the headwaters of the Los Angeles water system, June Lake, and Lake Tahoe. The return trip was made over the Sierra Nevada range over the same trail that my father had used when he made his first trip into Virginia City, Nevada, in 1862, with his father who had arrived in San Francisco in 1849. We surely appreciated the good roads as compared to what he told us about their condition in those early days when they went by stage or followed a 'trucker.'

"A three-day visit with friends in Stockton, where the temperature was approaching what some are want to call 'unusual.'

"In these days of the trailers, it sure makes camping in another class from other days. This appears to be quite the style nowadays, as California has licensed some 10,000 so far this year out of the 20,000 in the rest of the country.

"This next month operations will start in Arizona, so my experience will be in an entirely different condition.

"Wish you would send me an address book of former members, as I would like to scan the names of some of the men whom I once knew, and then I'll surely write some letters.

"Also would like to know the name of the fraternity that was formerly known as the Phi Zeta Mu.

"You also might be able to check the names of some of the class of '93, '94, and '95 who were members of the Phi Zeta Mu, as it is more than likely that I would not recall all of these men.

"It might be interesting to know that my wife was in the prep school with me before I entered Dartmouth, and when I came home with my new fraternity pin, she 'fell in love' with it, and even now she very proudly wears it.

"As I glance at your letter you have asked that I write something for the MAGAZINE. This I have not done, but if you should feel that there has been a scrap of news or gossip in the above and you want to make a little 'squib' out of it, you are welcome.

"Hope you too have had a pleasant summer vacation, and will be able to tell us about it in the MAGAZINE as others probably do the same.

"Say hello to anybody who should have even a faint recollection of a freshman of my name, and some day we may meet.

"With kindest regards, I am very sincerely,

"HENRY M. LORD Ex '95." "Athens, Greece

"I received your circular note addressed to the members of '95. We are so widely scattered that it is difficult to see much of each other. I sent you a letter ten days ago giving a little information about the work I am interested in. I sometimes wonder what to say when I am asked 'what are you doing'? I seem to be a Jack of all trades, filling in each day with unexpected calls. Yesterday a young American came in from Vienna with a Jewish girl that he found somewhere whom he wishes to marry, and as there is no American or English pastor here to perform the wed- ding I went with him to a Greek Protestant pastor and helped him make the necessary arrangements civil and religious. In the afternoon, which was our day at home, friends from Constantinople and Salonica who are here for short visits came in to call, besides a number of Armenian and American neighbors. Our home is a sort of a clearing station where people of many points of view meet on common footing.

"We are putting up two new buildings for our Girls' College, and as I am treasurer this takes some of my time. We have some five hundred children in the summer schools, and various other activities like the Boys' Club we are carrying on with the Y. M. C. A. Soon they will go out to camp for twenty days. More boys are applying than we have room this year, showing that the camp has been a success in the past.

"I had a letter from Quincy yesterday, telling of his resignation from his pulpit. How few pastors in these days have had such a long pastorate in one place! It certainly speaks well for Quincy. He wrote that he had delivered the baccalaureate at St. Johnsbury.

"The political horizon in the Far East looks very serious this morning. At 8 o'clock every morning with our radio we get the news in English from London, which helps us to keep in touch with the world.

"Yours sincerely, "JESSE K. IMARDEN."

ALUMNI FUND RECORD FOR 1937

25 contributors (49% of graduates),total gifts of $469.00 (50% of objective).

EDWARD }. ROSSITER, Class Agent

CONTRIBUTORS

1895 Austin, Frank E. Campbell, Arthur F. Cleaveland, Fred C. Davis, Carroll A. Ford, Joseph A. Foster, William A. Gerould, James T. Gile, Ernest S. Hack, Thomas H. Harley, Joel A. Hayes, John E. R. Holder), Charles A. Mason, Francis E. Mclndoe, George J. Newhart, Horace Pollard, Charles W. Rice, William F. Rossiter, Edward J. Sanborn, Henry C. Stevens, Roland E. Tarbell, Wallace H. West, Arthur D. Wilson, Albion B.

Secretary, White River Junction, Vt.