1905*

With sincere regret we announce the resignation of "Doc" MacMillan as Secretary-Treasurer of the Class, effective as of July 1, 1940. The decision, reached reluctantly by him after careful consideration, is entirely due to lack of available time for these duties on account of the demands of his professional practice. Doc writes, "In resigning, I wish to assure you that I am not yielding in spirit or loyalty to either the Class or the College, but I can see no other course, that both may be served with the same degree of efficiency that past Secretaries have carried on." We are confident that the Class will fully understand the cause for this resignation and equally regret the necessity therefor.

In August Walter May was appointed Secretary-Treasurer and accepted the position which, we are sure will receive the unanimous approval of all. Walter is Deputy Commissioner of Education for the State Board of Education for New Hampshire.

Your new Secretary assumes his new duties with the encouraging assurances of full support from the Executive Committee. Bob Harding, who served so successfully in the office for five years, and Andy MacMillan who, as his successor for too brief a period, gave us in the July number the exeellent report of our Reunion.

During the summer there were weddings of special interest to the Class.

On July 13, Phyllis Sampson, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Wallace C. Sampson of Providence, was married at the home of her parents at Lake Winnipesaukee to Malcolm Wallis, son of Louis and Mrs. Wallis. The bride was graduated from Pembroke College in 1939 and the bridegroom from Dartmouth College in 1939.

On July 22, Ruth Weyburn, daughter of Lyon and Mrs. Weyburn, was married to Henry Searbury Parker Jr., in St. John's Church in Beverly, Massachusetts.

On August 24, Barbara Ann Lillard, daughter of Walter and Mrs. Lillard, was married to Walter Powers Jr., in the First Congregational Church of Marion, Massachusetts. The bride attended Tabor Academy and was graduated from Radcliffe College in 1937. The bridegroom was graduated from Deerfield Academy, from Dartmouth College in 1934, and from Harvard Law School. He is the son of Walter Powers '06. Bob Harding attended the wedding and reports a very beatiful ceremony.

Congratulations and best wishes of the Class are extended to the three brides and bridegrooms.

The Boston Traveler of July 18 commends Judge Reeve, whom it calls the "friend of every honest car-owner in Massachusetts" for imposing in his Lynn Court a fine of $100 on a resident of that state for driving a car with New Hampshire plates and without insurance. Judge Reeve uses the law as an instrument of social control.

On August 28, Dr. William P. Clough of New London, New Hampshire, announced that his son, Dr. William P. Clough Jr., will locate in the near future at New London for general practice of medicine. Bill's other son is a physician practicing at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston. Our best wishes go to Bill and Mrs. Clough for the extended vacation which they are reported as planning to take after Dr. William P. Junior goes to New London.

J. Winslow and Mrs. Pierce opened their spacious home, overlooking Haymarket Square in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on July 25 to the public for the benefit of the American Friends of France. This beautiful house was built in 1799 by John Pierce, merchant, and great-grandfather of Winslow. In the recent volume, "Portsmouth, New Hampshire, A Cameo Impression" by Samuel Chamberlain (Hastings House, New York) there are beautiful photographs of the house and grounds.

Your Secretary taught at New York University for six weeks this summer and lived with Walter Nourse and Dr. Philip W. L. Cox, Head of the Department of Secondary Education in the School of Education at New York University, at the latter's home in Maplewood, New Jersey. It was a real pleasure to have the chance to see Walter again after many years. After a period of. teaching in the Fessenden School in West Newton, Massachusetts, Walter went to Los Angeles, taught science in one of the junior high schools, later became Assistant Principal of one of the high schools and has recently been promoted to the Principalship of Thomas Edison Junior High School, which is housed in a new building. Walter is doing graduate summer work at New York University and is, well along towards his Doctor's degree. To fill out his schedule, he signed up for three weeks in one of your Secretary's classes. His work was, in the phrase of a former Dartmouth professor, "in the highest categories." The instructor learned a lot.

We had the pleasure of entertaining Tubby Bessie at lunch at the Faculty Club of New York University. It was heartening to see that he has greatly improved in health and to hear his salty comments on various matters from cabbages to kings.

Walter Emery, whom we saw occasionally on the train or at the Hoboken Ferry, paid us a most welcome visit one evening at Maplewood.

Walter Nourse and your Secretary enjoyed also the hospitality at lunch of Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase, of the Class of 1904, who is now Chancellor of New York University. Chancellor Chase came to his present position from the Presidency of the University of Illinois. Before going to Illinois he was President of the University of North Carolina.

Reserve the night of October 25, the night before the Harvard game, for the Annual Class Dinner at the University Club in Boston.

MEMBERS OF '05 AT JUNE REUNION

Secretary, 4 Holt St., Concord, N. H.