1889*

Our "fiftieth" reunion brought to Hanover 25 of our 34 living members. Eleven wives and four daughters made a total of forty. The '94 cup, awarded annually to the class having the highest percentage of living members present, was given to us, in due form, at the meeting of the alumni association—and then returned to its proper cabinet to await next year's commencement. At this meeting our President, Mr. Justice Wheat, spoke in behalf of our class We heartily approve the custom of making the headquarters of the 50-year class the meeting-place for members of contemporary classes who are in town. We welcomed men from 7 classes, including a from '85 who were in the Thayer School Following the example of our big brothers, we had a small, informal tea at The Inn, Saturday afternoon, attended by our own group, by men and women of neighboring classes and some members of the faculty, with their wives While our men were at the meeting of the alumni association, Saturday noon, the ladies drove to Bonnie Oaks, Fairlee, for luncheon Our class dinner was in the Ski House, at The Inn, Sunday noon, the climax of which was a call from President Hopkins, who took five minutes of his full day to give us cordial greetings, information about and enthusiasm for the best interests of Dartmouth, past, present and future We greatly appreciated the splendid exhibition in Baker Library of Photographs, taken during the eighties, of varied scenes and varied persons in Dartmouth and Hanover. This was arranged by the Archives Department While none of the four attended our reunion, it seems appropriate to record the names of '89's four great-grandchildren and, parenthetically, their great-grandfathers. They are Donald R. Perry, March 28, 1937, (Geo. H. Currier) Charles G. Christian Jr., December 4, 1938, (L. H. Ingham)—Comerford, April, 1939, (E. B. Blanchard) Curtis J. Ingham, June 11, 1939, (L. H. Ingham).

Bugbee could not come to reunion because he spent the month of June in a Boston hospital. He wrote August 18, that he was at work again and had visited Hanover the previous Sunday. Bugbee's daughter, Marian, was married to Norman Grover at Keene, N. H., September 4, 1938 E. B. Davis went to East Hardwick, Vt., after reunion, with a bagful of books for a summer of study and writing. In July he was interrupted by the necessity of a few days in a nearby hospital It will be remembered that John Barrett died last October. Many roads in Grafton, Vt., had been made impassable by the Hurricane, hence there was no public funeral. Memorial services were held in the Congregational church, Grafton, July 7, 1939. The Barrett Homestead (in the family for about 150 years) was open to friends during the day. Bartlett and Blakely represented '89 at these exercises Miss Alice Baker, only surviving sister of our classmate, was instantly killed May 2, 1939, in an automobile accident near her home in Oakland, California.

Secretary, 87 Milk St., Boston

* 100% subscribers to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, on class group plan.