1900*

Although his condition in recent years has been such as to make Paul Redington's departure a welcome relief from suffering, his death, none the less, comes to the Class as a distinct shock. It is hard to imagine that so virile, active and attractive a personality has gone from us. It is also hard to imagine 1900 without two Redingtons on its roster, cast in so identical a mold that distinction between them has always been impossible. To our classmate, the surviving twin brother, and to the immediate members of Paul's family the heartfelt sympathy of the Class goes out.

Harry Marshall in Burma is closer than most of us to the scene of actual fighting. At this writing nothing has been heard from him personally, but the Mission Board reports that plans are all laid for immediate evacuation, if necessary.

From the Alumni Records Office word comes that Dr. Arthur Wallace is now to be addressed at Wells, Maine, rather than Boston.

Pete Fletcher spent most of last summer in the large house which he has acquired at Groton, Vt„ located in the village, and not, as the Secretary erroneously reported, on a farm. Pete is looking forward to retirement from his teaching position at Oshkosh at a not distant, but rather uncertain, future date.

While the item belongs to the Class of 1926, the members of his father's class claim the privilege of congratulating Clarence McDavitt Jr. upon his election to the presidency of the Somerville National Bank.

Jeanne Sargent, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Urban Tirrell, was married at Montreal on January 26 to SubLieutenant Anthony Rivers Hicks, R.C.N.V.R.

The Secretary wishes to thank his classmates for their most cordial and appreciative letters concerning the recent report. He wishes that he had leisure to respond personally to all of them, as they deserve. Perhaps some day he may.

Mistakes, however, occur. The checking of numerous dates and other matters of detail was laboriously done. That process was "not necessary with the names of his classmates—of course the Secretary could make no mistake in such an obvious matter!! Whereupon, after all inspection of manuscript and repeated reading of proof, in the Report (although not in the Directory) Clarence Erwin Paddock emerges as Charles Erwin Paddock. The suggestion has been made to Clarence that he have his name changed to Charles, by whatever legal process is necessary in Massachusetts, that the record may be kept straight. But he, having borne the name Clarence for some sixty years and having become used to it, seems reluctant to make the change. So the Charles must stand as an error.

Incidentally a prize of one-half a coupon (when and if issued) for a week's supply of sugar is offered to the classmate who reports the four other errors in the Report which the Secretary thus far has discovered, and who adds to them four more which the Secretary has not yet hit upon.

Secretary, 11 N. Park St., Hanover, N. H.