1896
The usual Fall Round-up was held at the University Club Saturday evening, October 28 th, following the Harvard-Dartmouth Football Game. An interesting and lively gathering was had and the following were present: Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Cox and daughter Dorothy, Mr. and Mrs. Randall Cox; Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Lakeman, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Richards, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Weston, Mr. and Mrs. Byron E. Eldred, Selden L. Staples and C. H. Richardson. Illness prevented the attendance of four or five others.
Reports on the results of the Alumni Fund for the year 1939 show our class has jumped to the twenty-second place. Dan Lakeman brought about a 67% subscription on the part of the members, amounting to $647.00, which is 116% of the objective of $560.00. We owe our collector great respect for his persistent and successful campaign.
Talmadge Hamilton was one of the prominent men attending the Kiwanis Convention in Boston last June. Unfortunately he did not arrive in time to attend the class gathering at Commencement. However, his cousin, Dr. H. M. Chase '97, took him in tow and motored to Hanover and vicinity the following week. He had not visited the College for over forty years and your secretary enjoyed a couple hours' visit with him before his return to Seattle.
The Class will be interested to hear that Jane E. Gay, daughter of our late classmate, William E. Gay, graduated from the Windsor, Vermont, High School last June and is now attending a woman's college in Virginia.
L. S. Cox and C. H. Richardson attended the fortieth reunion of the Class of '99, Boston University Law School last June, when a large proportion of the class attended the dinner at the University Club.
Ten or a dozen of the Class held a family party during three days of last Commencement, most of the time of which was spent at Hanover Inn. It is hoped as many of the Class as possible will attend the family reunion this coming June. Dan Lakeman will have charge of this year's gathering and will be glad to furnish information as to the detail to any who are interested.
Your secretary has received many complimentary letters on his Class Report issued last May, especially from non-members. An extensive review was given it in the Concord Monitor by H.C.P. '93. So far as was observed, the MAGAZINE has not mentioned it. If further copies are desired, your secretary has several on hand.
We regret to report that our former classmate, Amon O. Benfield and wife, together with two friends, were fatally injured in an automobile accident at Winnsboro, S. C. last May. Benfield had been running a large real estate business, together with a store, in Portsmouth and Rye, N. H. and at St. Petersburg, Fla. in the winter and it was on his trip North this spring that the accident happened.
Secretary, Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.
As THIS ISSUE went to press word came from Norman B. Richardson '20 of the sudden death of his uncle, Carl H. Richardson, secretary of the class of 1896, at his home in Jamaica Plain, Mass., November 16. Our sympathy is extended to the family and many friends.—EDlTOßS.
