1894*

Most important in the Secretary's mail? the last month was the following: Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Sanford Martyn. request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Lorraine to Mr. Alan Frederick Rath On Saturday, the sixth of April at half after eight o!clock Grace Reformed Church Lincoln Road and Bedford AvenueBrooklyn, New York

The Springfield, Vermont, REPORTER of February Bth carried the announcement of the resignation of Ernest Guy Ham as Superintendent of the Springfield schools. Included in the biographical sketch which accompanied this announcement was the statement that Ernest was "third in his class of eighty-six." It was general knowledge that his rank was in that vicinity but so far as the Secretary knows the exact fact has not before been divulged. What an honor it has been to Springfield during these fifteen years to have had as its Superintendent of Schools the man who stood third in our Class! It is evident that they have appreciated him because The RE- PORTER carries an editorial in which there are such expressions as these: "All. .. .feel regret at losing so devoted a public servant." "No detail has been too small for him to consider." "He has given fully of himself, even in the last few years when his health has not been of the best." "Mr. Ham has always been progressive." "One will never be found who will have more devotion to his task or bring to it a finer scholastic foundation."

The editorial concludes with this: "Though we must lose him as superintendent, we are glad that Mr. and Mrs. Ham have decided to continue to live in Springfield. It is a real tribute to the community that Mr. Ham declares the happiest years of his life have been spent here, it illustrates the truth of the old saying that a person gets out of life what he puts into it."

Spring seems to be returning. Also Curley Bartlett is back from Nassau (not Hawaii as erroneously suggested last month); Phil Marden from Arizona; Billy Ames from Florida. An attempt to reach Lovejoy in New Haven this week brought the report, "Telephone disconnected," so apparently he is not back yet from Florida nor is Q. Blakely back from California.

Secretary, 14 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. Class Agent, 9 Felton St., Hudson, Mass.