1903*

Fred H. Brown, Ex-Governor of New Hampshire and Ex-Senator from that state, has returned to Concord, N. H., from Washington somewhat improved in health. When his term as Senator expired and he was succeeded by Styles Bridges, President Roosevelt named him Comptroller General, but his health broke down and he resigned. He was later appointed by Mr. Roosevelt to a vacancy on the Tariff Commission, but feeling unequal to go to the office Brown again resigned. Incapacitated as he was Fred could have continued to remain on the payroll, but he is not that kind of a man. His New England conscience rebelled at such a course. The granite of New Hampshire still is in his veins.

Captain Herbert L. Kelley, in charge of the medical services of the ist Naval District which extends from Newport, R. I. to Maine, is located officially at Boston, 150 Causeway St. His home is at 11 Sheffield West, Winchester, Mass.

Clayton Erwin, as superintendent of schools at Ludlow, Vt., attended a convention in Boston in December and was host to Ned Kenerson at the superintendent's dinner. Ned reports a wonderful evening with Tink. Here's a wager that fishing was the chief topic of conversation between those guys. Tink knows every fish in Vermont waters, name and pedigree, while Ned has no mean reputation as a fisherman.

Bolz French writes that he has arrived in Florida for the winter. He says that he is in the best of health and has little to do except play golf. That means something for the class golf enthusiasts for Bolz always seeks to improve his game when in that balmy atmosphere.

Susan Hanlon of Danvers, Mass., is spending the winter at Redondo Beach, Calif.

A letter from Frank Wentworth of Berkeley, Calif., tells most interestingly of his activities as treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Mills College which is becoming quite a rendezvous for daughters of Dartmouth men, of business connections besides the college, of public work with an important municipal utility district of which he has been a director for 8 years and now has the chief responsibility. Frank travelled in Europe in '37 and later in Mexico. His greatest interest is perhaps in art, especially in the Oriental field. We of the Boston vicinity happily recall the visit Frank paid us when he came East to New York in the interest of a Mills College endowment fund and at the dinner given him by Ned Kenerson, Ralph Neal not to be headed by any New York financiers opened the fund by cash payment of his contribution. We only wish you would come again, Frank, but perhaps not in the interest of any endowment fund until after the war.

Secretary, 198 Humphrey St., Marblehead, Mass.