1893

A recent visit with our secretary found him comfortable and busy, working five and six hours a day with his writing. He furnished considerable information regarding members of the class, advising that he had heard from Sparhawk, who suggested a likeness between the head of the Father of our Country as it appeared on the Washington Birthday number of the Saturday Evening Post and our former popular professor, Charles F. Richardson. "Skid" also mentioned that "Woody" (Dr. Woodbury) recently made a bright contribution to the Boston Herald on the subject of sea serpents.

A call on Abbott found him, it seemed to me, somewhat improved over my last visit with him two years ago. He seemed cheerful, although still confined to the house. He advised that Sparhawk has been visiting his sister, Mrs. Harry W. Johnson, at Seneca Falls, N. Y., but believes that he has returned to his Cincinnati address, 1105 Elm St. Abbott also said that he understood Mrs. Mason had gone to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester for an operation.

I had a very interesting visit with Dr. Leach at Orange, Mass. Their son Francis, Dartmouth '26, is located in Elizabeth, N. J., is married, and has one child. He is in the electrical supply business. Another son, Robert W., is a graduate of Annapolis and a lieutenant in the Navy. Daughter Margaret Eileen, Mt. Holyoke '3l, is statistician at the Harvard Graduate School, and daughter Mary is now attending the Portia Law School in Boston. Their daughter Ann passed on last September. We sympathize with the Doctor and Mrs. Leach in this loss, as we feel that it was a terrible blow to them. Both the Doctor and Mrs. Leach are in good health and Ted does not look what must be his age.

We learn from "Skid" that Harry Metcalf has completed the deal by which he transfers his property, including his business, in Newport. However, it looks as though the Newporters intend to keep Harry there, because they have just elected him to an important committee on the Board of Trade. Harry's daughter, whom we were all pleased to meet last Commencement and who we understand is a real poet in prose and verse, is married to a fellow student at the University of New Hampshire, where they both will remain to complete their courses.

We notice in Boston papers that President Cox and his brother, former Governor Channing Cox, headed the list of honorary pallbearers at the funeral of Mrs. Alice M. Childs, widow of the prominent insurance man.

Fifty years ago, according to a recent issue of the White River Junction weekly paper, there was a spelling match between teams from the high school and from the leading citizens, which the students won, largely through the good work of Samuel P. French of our class and Arthur Bugbee of '95-

Widows of Dartmouth men whose names are often seen in New Hampshire papers are Mrs. Charles C. Goss of Dover, Mrs. Fred Runnells of Nashua, Mrs. Charles McDufEee of Alton, Mrs. Arthur Lougee of Conway, and Mrs. Frank Chadbourne of Plainfield.

An interesting letter from Frank Pelton, 338 S. W. 57th Ave., Miami, in which city he has resided since 1938, indicates that he is busy with the Foundation Plan, Inc., of New York. He writes that he was greatly disappointed in not being able to get back to our Forty-fifth Reunion. Pelton is much interested in our getting out a class report and writes, "It seems a long time since I had a class report, and I hope you will get one out." He likes Miami very much as a home, but feels that it is too far from Hanover. He mentions Dick Pearson, our secretary's son, who is in the publishing business in New York and who was in Concord over a week-end, visiting his father during the past month, having come from the convention of superintendents of schools at Cleveland.

This reminds your acting secretary that a letter from Arnold, superintendent of public instruction of Passaic, N. J., advises that he expects to be present at the sixty-ninth annual meeting of the American Association of School Administrators and that he will present a paper on the topic, "The Local Responsibility of the Professional Staff in a Public Relations Program." We are glad to get word from Arnold and to learn that he is very active in his chosen field.

A note from Burbank, of Cabot, Vt., in reply to an inquiry from us, reminds us that he was secretary and treasurer of '93 until our first reunion. He says, in addition, "Mrs. Burbank and I have lived in the same house in Cabot for forty-one years. We have one daughter, Mrs. Pauline M. Lyndes, B.S. from the University of Vermont '24. She has three children. I have been just a country doctor in Cabot for forty-three years." He couldn't have had a more useful career in any sphere of life.

McKay and Mrs. McKay are very much pleased that their daughter, who has been living with her husband and family in Greece for the past fourteen years, is coming to Rochester to live. She is Mrs. Herbert P. Lansdale Jr., and Mr. Lansdale has accepted the position as secretary of the Rochester Y. M. C. A. He was for several years general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. for the whole country of Greece, with headquarters at Salonica, now Thessalonica. They have two boys, aged fourteen and six- teen, who are now attending Northwood School, Lake Placid Club, New York. We rejoice with Mac and Mrs. McKay in having them close by.

Your Acting Secretary visited his old home town, Wakefield, Mass., and called on the Woodburys. Had a nice visit with Mrs. Woodbury, but the Doctor, owing to the prevailing run of grippe, was busy making calls. Even the daughters were laid up with it.

A letter from Judge Griffith of Manchester, Vt., advises that he and his family are all well, the children being pretty well scattered, the youngest, however, Grace, being at home. He reports that Manchester weekends have been crowded with winter sportsmen, and claims that Manchester has developed probably the best ski area in Vermont, with five ski tows and many fine trails. We must not forget that the Judge is '93 class agent for the Alumni Fund and help him all we can in this.

Judge Frank N. Chandler has been at the Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, since about the first of March, having undergone one operation successfully, and is now awaiting a second one, which he does not seem to feel is particularly important. All the members of the class will be pulling for "Zack."

Fund Contributors for 1938

Contributors: 23 (49% of graduates). Total gifts: $366 (43% of objective). EDWARD GRIFFITH, Class Agent.

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Aborn, Willard G. Boutelle, George W. Bowers, Edward Child, Jonathan H. Cox, Guy W. Dodge, George B. G. French, Charles A. Gordon, Charles B. Goss, Charles C.1 Greeley, George E. Griffith, Edward Jarvis, William R. Kinney, George E. McKay, Clarence W.

McKenzie, Charles R.2 Martyn, Herbert S. Mason, Lucius J. Miller, Edward S. Morrill, Frederick A. Pearson, Harlan C. Phelps, William C.3 Rowell, John M. Woodbury, Frank T. 1 Mem orialgiftfrom MrsGoss.2 Memorial gift.3 Memorial gift from hissister, Miss Elizabeth G.Phelps.

Secretary, 795 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Mass.