1883

When last heard from Rev. Sidney L. Gulick, who for a long time was connected with The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, New York, was with his sister in Honolulu, Hawaii, and attempts to locate him since the entrance of the United States into the second World War have been unavailing.

It is interesting, at least to the Secretary, to note that of the remaining fourteen surviving graduates of the class fifty per cent reside on the extreme coasts of our country, Bennett at Gloucester, Cressey at Boston, Brown at Martha's Vineyard and Johnson at New York, on the East coast, and Bliss at Atascadero, Cal., Rand at Salem, Oregon, and Sinkey at Seattle, Wash., on the West coast.

From last reports it appeared that all of the foregoing members, even at their advanced ages, were in reasonably good health.

At this time it is not a little gratifying to the Secretary that, as a member of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Vermont, he cordially supported a resolution at the special session last September, which, under President Roosevelt's order of September 11 to "shoot first," declared that the United States was in "armed conflict" with another nation, Vermont thereby being the first state in the Union to recognize such fact. This resolution was adopted ostensibly to provide for a bonus to be paid to Vermont soldiers entering the service of the United States, under certain conditions, after a bill to provide such bonus, which had been opposed by the Committee on Military Affairs of which Donald H. Norton '17 was chairman, had been defeated.

Secretary, Hartford, Vt.