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Our president, Charlie Chase, leads in furnishing news items for this issue. He reports that he and some members of his family spent a very enjoyable vacation in the White Mountains at "Russell's" in the Kearsarge section of North Conway, N. H., which, while they were there, was also headquarters for some of their friends. His daughter, Helen, who is officially connected with the Mercer Hospital in Trenton, N. J., has recently purchased and renovated a very interesting stone house, more than 100 years old, in near-by New Hope, Pa., which she now occupies as her home and continues to attend to her hospital duties. His daughter, Alice, who attended Colby Junior College and graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1941, was married to Mr. George Blaney Taylor Jr., on August 29th. Mr. Taylor attended Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and is connected with the American Paper Goods Cos. of Kensington, Conn. The wedding ceremony took place in the garden of the Chase home; the matron of honor was the bride's sister, Margaret, the wife of William H. Judd Jr., Dartmouth '34; the best man was Mr. George B. Taylor, father of the groom; the officiating clergymen were our classmate's brother, Rev. Arthur Chase, Dartmouth '89 and Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe, the latter being the rector of St. Mark's Church of New Britain, Conn.; a reception followed the ceremony.

Henry Austin reports that in consequence of the gasoline and rubber rationing he and Mrs. Austin will be forced this year to make their journey from their home in Webster, N. H., to St. Petersburg, Florida by train, which will be only their second trip by rail during their many years of sojourning there.

News has been received that our only surviving honorary class member, Miss Helen E. Melendy, of East Orange, N. J., was quite overcome by the excessive heat in July which seriously affected her eyesight; we trust that she will make an early and full recovery.

The Secretary confesses, with due humility, that on July 30th he became a fullfledged octogenarian and that while he is jar beyond the draft age, he, like most other patriotic citizens, still possesses a strong "fighting spirit."

Secretary, Kimball Bldg., Rooms 910-912 18 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Warner, N. H.