1883

Upon the nomination of the Secretary, this being the only one made, Hon. John L. Rand of Baker, Oregon, has, by a practically unanimous mail vote of those taking part in it, been elected president of the class to fill the vacany caused by the death of Henry B. Johnson, Esq., of New York. Judge Rand is wholly worthy of the support given him by members of the class.

Although he did not take a prominent interest or part in College activities during his undergraduate days, he has had a prominent career in the State of his adoption. He was born in Portsmouth, N. H., but he was moved to follow immediately Horace Greeley's advice to Go West. After graduation he went to the State of Washington and taught in Whitman College, meanwhile studying law. He was admitted to the bar of that State in May 1885. Soon afterwards he removed to Oregon where he was admitted to the bar in 1886. In 1888 he was elected district attorney of the sixth judicial district, which then comprised seven counties, for a term of six years and in 1894 was reelected for a second term. He was then elected a State senator and one of the four delegates at large to the Republican National Convention. In 1921 he was appointed a member of the Supreme Court of Oregon of which court he is still a worthy member.

Judge Rand has taken a commendable interest in our class, has attended reunions, although living at a long distance from the College, and has a long time record as a contributor to the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund.

In a recent communication from James L. "Woodfall he states that he was sick last month and deprived of performing his customary duties and at the time of his writing he was still under the doctor's care.

He has been for a long time a member of the firm of McClintock & Woodfall, consulting engineers, in the metropolitan district, and for twenty years has been the Town Engineer of Belmont, Mass.

He states that his grandson, Richard, has an ambition to enter Dartmouth this fall and that he hopes that he makes the grade; also, that there are about eleven boys in Belmont who now wish to matriculate at the College.

It is pleasing to me to find that John W. Center, who for a long time following his graduation from College, was engaged in the practice of law at Manchester, N. H., and who during most of that time seemed to be in a state of innocuous desuetude as to class affairs, has come back into the fold of the surviving members of the class as a correspondent. He says: "I have virtually retired from practice of the law but, nevertheless, do a lot of work for my neighbors and friends. I have what I consider fine health for an octogenarian and consequently enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as much as I ever did, hoping all the other survivors are doing the same."

Secretary and Class Agent Hartford, Vt.