1883

Charles W. Hamilton at an advanced age is still active in business, being president of the Milwaukee Lace Paper Company in his home city in Wisconsin. After graduating from Amherst College, to which institution he transferred along with Walter T. Field late in his college course, he acted as secretary of the old Milwaukee Harvester plant, but in 1898, he decided to go into some business of his own, even if it was no more than a peanut stand.

He discovered in a business survey that practically all lace paper was made in Germany. Accordingly, he decided that this was the business in which he would engage. It required extremely skilled workmen but this did not faze him and he at once sought the best to be found. The business succeeded and from a handful of men in his service the number has increased to over two hundred, and his company is an outstanding one in its line of business in this country.

He has associated with him two sons, Ray N., who is vice president, and Kenny C., who is secretary.

His company holds membership in Rice Leaders of the World Association which is a guaranty of character in business. October 7th, 1937, Mr. Hamilton was elected a life member in the Rice Foundation Society of New York. He writes that he is trying to conduct his business along honest business principles but that the government interferes and tells the only way to do business and takes away all that can be earned to operate its experiments, successful or not.

For diversion and pleasure, to break up the monotony of business, Mr. Hamilton was formerly a hot yachtsman and jolly tar but he has given up his nautical adventures and now engages in golf and games not so strenuous. He is deeply interested in statuary and has a large collection of statues made by the late John Rogers.

Sept. 23rd, last, his office force and friends gave him a birthday party, which was much enjoyed on the 80th anniversary of his birth.

George B. White, a non-graduate member of the class, died of pneumonia on the 5th of last March. The Secretary is in quest of suitable material for an obituary notice which he hopes to contribute to the next issue.

In the general election, Mr. Watson was elected to represent the town of Hartford in the 1941 General Assembly of Vermont, which meets the first Wednesday in January next.

This is the fifth term for which he has been elected to this office, the first time for the session of 1894, the next for 1929, and following this the sessions for 1937, 1939 and 1941.

He won over his democratic opponent by a majority of 405 and led the state Republican ticket by 102 votes, and the national ticket by 175.

[THE EDITORS.]

Secretary, Hartford, Vt.

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