1885

Henry Austin, our faithful class treasurer and our only genuine dirt farmer, reports that he has begun his fall plowing in preparation for his next year's crops. He has the advantage of most of us as he produces his family supply of butter from his own dairy; his most disturbing problem now is how to transport that product for his winter's use in Florida, as well as the transportation of himself and his wife—we wish him good luck. He reports that his granddaughter, Judith, was graduated from the University of New Hampshire in September and has accepted a position in her line of household economics in the college Commons at Hanover; also that his grandson, Robert, who was injured in active service in Africa, has been discharged from the hospital and is now back with his unit.

The secretary and Mrs. Bayley, after a pleasant and busy season, have closed their summer home at Beverly and have taken an apartment for the winter at the Hotel Commander, Cambridge, Mass. Their granddaughters, Lucia and Ellen Buchanan, have been actively engaged in Red Cross Nurse's Aide work during the past two summers at the Beverly Hospital, and Fort Banks Hospital in Winthrop, Mass. Their grandson, Edwin Buchanan, apprentice seaman, United States Naval Reserve, is pursuing his pre-medical course, under the V-12 program, at Princeton.

The secretary would add that one afternoon during September he received a call from a prosperous-appearing gentleman who enigmatically introduced himself as follows: "If you can call me by name, the treats are on me." The secretary, though somewhat taken back, rallied himself and after a brief critical examination of the stranger, whom he hadn't seen for more than fifty-nine years, replied, "You are John F. Springfield, of the class of '84 Dartmouth." "You win," replied Springy and then followed a very pleasant hour of reminiscence. Springy still has much of the same vigorous manner that made him the terror of the pitchers of our baseball days at Dartmouth. Meanwhile he has achieved a deserved success in his longago adopted state of Texas, but, nevertheless, he is glad to return more or less regularly to New England and his old Rochester, N. H., boyhood home. The secretary hopes from now on to be on his calling list.

Secretary, Kimball Building, Rooms 910-912 18 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Warner, N. H.