1893*

A letter from McKay indicates activity. We quote, "My partner is away on a hunting trip and I am running the office alone. Also my young grandson is playing on his High School team I must follow his career, which is trending toward that of his grandfather." We missed Mac this fall, as he usually attends the Alumni Council Meeting and the Harvard game.

We did, however, have the pleasure of lunching with Dr. Martyn before the Harvard game and enjoyed the game afterwards with him. We are all sorry to learn that Mrs. Martyn is not at all well.

Dr. Woodbury writes from North Weare, N. H., that he and daughter, Ruth, are there for a few days, "farming and collecting a few vegetables, woodcock and pond fish incidentally, trying to sell a little lumber for self defense work .... Getting 'shortwinded' though, and have to sit down pretty often to let it catch up with me."

A letter from Sparhawk expresses pleasure that his poem, "A Petition to the Wilderness," found favor with the Magazine editors, as indicated in the October issue.

Word from Greeley shows that he is very busy running affairs in general in Marlboro, Mass., and particularly those of The First National Bank of Marlboro.

"Billy" Jarvis writes from Michigan City, Indiana, where he is at the present time making his headquarters as an executive of the Sullivan Machinery Company. His son was graduated from Harvard Law School last June, and so the family is no longer in Cambridge as has been the case during the last few years.

Word comes indirectly from "Billy" Redenbaugh that, having retired, his address is now R.F.D. No. 2, Box 7, Friday Harbor, Washington.

"Skid's" column, "Granite Chips," always interesting, was particularly so on October 24th in that it carried further information regarding our classmate, Selden. It seems that Selden's mother was a Towle, and that a genealogy, "Decendants of Jonathan Towle," has the opening chapter by Selden, accompanied by a full-page portrait. This chapter shows, quoting "Granite Chips," how the first Towles were O'Tooles, direct descendants of the first kings of Ireland."

A letter from "Skid" under the date of October 30 stated that he had not been very well for the two weeks previous, but at the time of writing was definitely better. Since then all of his favorite candidates for high political office in New Hampshire have been elected, so here's hoping that such good news has given him an additional uplift.

Other items in "Granite Chips" deal with the fact that the Alumni Council, at its meeting recently, passed a resolution recommending that all classes contemplating holding reunions during the war should postpone them for the duration, except the fifty-year Classes. These 50year Classes if they wished could hold reunions as usual. The officers of your Class would be glad to know what you think individually about this matter, but "Granite Chips" says,

"Debating the question of how many of the vintage of 1893 probably would be able to get to Hanover, one of those present summarized the story recently told in full in the Woodsville, N. H.', News of the scaling of the summit of Moosilauke' last month, by a '93 man, Dr. Edward S. Miller, of Woodsville, well-known mountain climber and observer of nature, who was not at all incommoded by the excursion and apparently considered it as nothing out of the ordinary. But we doubt if most of his classmates would fee] equal to climbing even Depot Hill at Hanover-Norwich."

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