1893*
Dr. Perley Oakland Place and Mrs. Place spent the summer in Maine, stopped in Cambridge on their way home. We were pleased to be able to have a far too short visit with them. "Pop" looks extremely well and appears to be in fine fettle. He spent considerable time during the summer preparing some literary masterpiece, very likely in Latin. He explained that his absence from recent '93 reunions was due to his duties as Marshall at Syracuse University during the commencement periods. We hope he can arrange matters so as to be at our fiftieth. You know "Pop" is the only member of '93, so far, who has received from Dartmouth an honorary doctorate.
A recent luncheon visit with President Cox in the beautiful John Hancock Life Insurance Building in Boston disclosed a wonderful collection of souvenirs, in fact a whole roomful, all given to our President by the Company's agents from the Pacific to the Atlantic and from Canada to Mexico, as tokens of their esteem for their President. Incidentally, Guy is ViceChan cellor of Boston University.
Charles Gordon and family spent a good part of the summer "way down Maine" and reports having a fine recuperative visit. At this writing, he is at his home in Newton Center, Massachusetts, but doctor's orders are that he must spend the winters in a warmer climate.
Had a nice visit with Our Secretary one beautiful day early in October, visiting with him on his porch where he was enjoying the bright sunlight of that particular day. Learned that he has been making short excursions around Concord in his wheel chair. He keeps busy writing his daily column for the Concord Monitor and many special articles for other periodicals. He surely looked good.
On the same trip called on George Dodge at Manchester, New Hampshire, who reports alls well. George is the dean of the merchants of Manchester and is active in many local civic affairs. One of his daughters is located at Storrs, Connecticut, as the wife of Dr. James H. Barnett, Professor of Sociology at the Connecticut State College.
Found Colonel Charles French at Laconia, New Hampshire, much better in health than when we saw him a year ago. A serious but successful operation last spring fixed him up so that it looks as though he would continue serving Laconia as city engineer and chief citizen for many years to come. He has been at that job already something like forty years. After much activity stretching over a long period of years, Charlie has retired from the National Guard with the title of Lieutenant-Colonel. He is fortunate in having his two daughters close at hand—Helen, married and living at Fryeburg, Maine, has presented Charles with two grandsons, the older being eleven years of age. The other daughter, Elizabeth, lives at home. Both are graduates of Middlebury College.
McKay—eminent lawyer at Rochester, New York—writes interestingly; says he and Mrs. McKay are planning on a tenday vacation trip to New York, where they will visit with their son, Hugh McKay, Dartmouth, '2l, who lives at New Rochelle. They expect to see something of the World's Fair and, incidentally, of the World's Series. He plans to look up "Roller" Mason. He also writes: "My oldest daughter, Marjorie M. Lansdale and her family fortunately left Greece where they had been living for 14 years, and are now located in Rochester with their two boys. You can see how thankful we are that they are outside of the new war zone. Her husband is General Secretary of the Rochester Y.M.C.A."
George Greeley does not appear to have allowed his exacting and responsible duties as President of the Marlboro (Massachusetts) National Bank to disturb him, as he is still the same youthful, active "Hod."
Letters from a number of the class have been very welcome, but there are a great many yet to be heard from. Would like to be able to report in this column at some time during this college year of 1939-40 on each member of '93; so please take notice, each one of you, and particularly those of you who live at a distance from Hanover. Next month '93's news column will have data which should interest everyone of us. Don't forget to subscribe to this MAGAZINE if you haven't already done so.
MATT B. JONES '94 Author of the scholarly and interesting volume "Vermont in the Making 7750-7777."
Acting Secretary, Upland Way, Barrington, R. I.
