1903*

To one who has frequented the region about New London, N. H. it came not as a surprise that the hurricane effects should have prohibited the annual class picnic at "Musa" on the first Saturday of August. With stumps just pulled from the ground, great piles of sawn lumber and timber in other locations piled ready for the mill, one would imagine he was entering a lumber camp rather than the well kept grounds of former years.

No one could have felt more keenly the disappointment of having to postpone his annual invitation to the class than Vic and his family; but looking ahead to another year Vic insists that he'll be ready for a bigger and better reunion than ever. No other location has quite the appeal to 1903 that "Musa" has due in large part to that atmosphere of delightful hospitality created by the Cutter family. On to "Musa" in 1940.

Roy F. Bergengren sends forward a change of address to 822 Farwell Drive, Maple Bluff, Madison, Wis.

Carl B. Worthen, formerly of Griffith Park, Los Angeles, has moved to 10,111 Breidt Ave., Tujunga, Calif. Mrs. Almira Harriman Swenson, wife of Omar F. Swenson of Concord, N. H., died at her home August 3, 1939. Omar, it will be recalled, was a well liked member of our class for two years leaving to enter The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The class extends its hand of friendship and sympathy to Omar and hopes that sometime it may greet him personally.

Harry Watson of Keene, N. H., now president of our class, reports a delightful afternoon on the links with Ned Kenerson. He failed to send along the score card but his intimation that Meat Hanlon and Bolz French were to be contacted for a foursome might imply that the score was sufficiently low—say around the eighties. Take my advice, Meat and Bolz, watch out.

It is not too early to mention the fact that Pres. Watson is planning a real live dinner party following the Harvard-Dartmouth game this fall. Last year's dinner at the Commander in Cambridge proved a successful class affair. The easy access and avoidance of heavy traffic conditions following the game made the location ideal. Let's make a special effort to increase the attendance this year.

Orville and Amy Smith were vacationing in August at their camp on Ragged Mountain. O. W.'s chief hobby is the "making of wild flowers to grow where they are not supposed to grow" and he is achieving considerable success. Trips over into Vermont's limestone areas, through seldom frequented bogs in New Jersey and New York states, down into Virginia and elsewhere have brought rich returns in wild growing plants with their beautiful blossoms.

In June Mr. and Mrs. Byron Wynne Matteson announced the marriage of their daughter, Margaret Van Dyke to Mr. Seth Breunert Bradley on Tuesday, June 6th, 1939, at Denver, Col.

Freddie Baker has been reported to me as fine and dandy up in the north country in and around Lancaster. We don't hear as often as we would like from this barrister, golfer and fisherman, but the Harvard game generally serves its purpose and lands him amongst us.

Secretary, 198 Humphrey St., Marblehead, Mass

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