1895

GUESS WHO! The reproduced photograph appearing in this column is the likeness of a matriculate who was enrolled as a '95 man with the rest of us in the fall of 1891. Of course he is well on the hither side of the voting age and sees through optical glass. He is also a grandfather and lives in the Pacific hinterland. These are identifying hints. I declare my opinion that there are not more than a half dozen '95 survivors wTho can identify this erstwhile Classmate. Try it and write me your guess. I'll mail the best cigar I can buy to each identifyer who is also a smoker of cigars. I'm stumping you!

"Sherry" Baketel is a colonel in the Medical Reserve but the age limit stands between him and active military service. His son, Sheridan Jr. '20, is in the Coast Guard Reserve and his nephew, Sherman T., is executive officer on a destroyer escort ship.

"Sliver" Rice merited and has received official commendation for his effective service as class agent. He reflects credit on '95. Classmates will be glad to know that Howard Rumery is recovering from his prolonged illness. Mrs. Rumery writes: "He now sits up in his room part of the time and in many ways we see improvement."

Frank Austin has recently written an article entitled Childless Charity. Because it is copyrighted I won't risk being sued for infringement by quoting him verbatim. He holds that the population of Germany and Italy should be reduced fifty per cent, and kept permanently at that level, for the sake of economic security. I opine that Hitler and bedizened Mussolini rather agree with brother Austin and have made a good start on the proposed reduction.

"H. Dan" Watson still has an eye for the chopping ax. He declares that on Sept. 2, 1943, he "cut, split and piled a cord plus, of 4 ft. wood." He admits it was white birch, though, which is, of course, not as easily cut as thick hasty pudding a month old. And this is what he has done to me:

"I dare you a stump in wood chopping which, I submit, should be a good test of manly vigor." But first let him pick up my stump to identify the classmate I've mentioned.

Here's a bit of "H. Dan's" classicism which I read in a New Hampshire paper. "Consuerunt diimmortales, quo gravius homines, ex commutationererurn doleant, quos pro scelere corum ulcisci velint, his secundiores interdum res et diuturnioremimpunitatem concedere." See Caesar's B. G. Bk. 1, Ch. XIV, and tell me where "H. Dan's" mistake is, you "Academs" of '95.

CLASS OF 1 895, can you identify this man? See 1895 Class Notes Column.

Secretary, White River Junction, Vt Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.