1884

Your Secretary received notice of the death of another of our classmates, Walter E. Burleigh, through the Office of Alumni Records. Burleigh passed away on February 27, 1942. His obituary, prepared by his close friend and intimate associate during his college course, Judge Joseph S. Matthews, was published in the April number of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

Judge Matthews, who is still active as a master or referee in several actions assigned to him by the Superior Courts of New Hampshire, was, when last heard from, enjoying the sunshine of the South at St. Petersburg, Florida.

It grieves me to inform the other members of our Class that Ben George has undergone a serious operation that has confined him to his home for several weeks. Here's hoping that he may soon return to health and strength.

Ben has been the backbone of the drive and success .of the Class of 1884 for the Alumni Fund as our Class Agent.

Homer Hulbert writes me from Springfield, Massachusetts that recently he had a most enjoyable week in Washington where he attended as a Delegate the Korean Independence Convention in celebration of the twenty-third anniversary of Korea's Declaration of Independence. He says they are trying to get our Government to recognize the Provisional Republic of Korea, as Chiang Kai Shek has already done. They have some 200,000 men ready to fight Japan as soon as they can obtain arms and equipment.

A large number of influential men in Washington attended the Convention, and all were sympathetic toward Korea's aims.

Homer lived for over ao years in that country and says he is as eager to see Korea free as are the Koreans themselves. And further, if we win this war, as we must, he says that Japan will be driven off the mainland of Asia and that Korea will resume her sovereign rights which she enjoyed for 4000 years.

Secretary, 45 Market St., Manchester, N. H. Class Agent, 5926 Kenmore Ave., Chicago, Ill.