1889

Seven members of our class entered the medical profession—Blakely, Bradley, Norton, Noyes, Robie, Stark, and Williamson. Dr. Nathaniel Kingsbury Noyes is the only one now living. "Nat" (as we in '89 know him) has had a wide and successful practice for the past 51 years—38 years in Duxbury, the last 13 years in Plymouth, Mass. Our first class meeting in the fall of freshman year was called to order by Nat Noyes, acting as chairman, and at that meeting he was elected first president of our class. The following spring he received a broken leg in a baseball game in Lebanon, N. H., and the succeeding fall entered Dartmouth Medical College, from which he received his M.D. degree the same year we, in the academic department, received our degrees. Today he is one of our most loyal 'Bgers. From his first marriage there were born three sons and two daughters. Two sons have died. The surviving son and both daughters are married. Following the death of his first wife in 1929, he changed his residence from Duxbury to Plymouth, where he built an attractive home at 17 Brewster St., and on December 15, 1930, married Miss Alice I. Edgar, then superintendent of the Jordan Hospital in Plymouth. Here, in their hospitable home near the water front of Plymouth Bay and close to historic Plymouth Rock, Nat and Mrs. Noyes recently entertained your secretary over the week-end—a visit that revived memories of numerous pleasant incidents of the past.

Dock Warden, who observed his seventyeighth birthday August 19, keeps as active as. ever. The Great Falls Tribune, of which he is publisher and part-owner, has had more than forty out of their two hundred and twenty-five employees enter the service. Doc is now working seven days a week.

George Sparhawk's eldest son, John Burt, has entered the Service as an airborne engineer. His younger son, George F. Jr. has been released from active service on account of age—forty years—and has been transferred to the enlisted reserve. One of his most interesting experiences in service was one evening at Camp in Alaska, listening with other men to shortwave broadcasting from Yokyo, and hearing that the camp in which they were sitting had been bombed four times during that day, and reduced to a mass of ruins.

The Hands of Time during November recorded birthdays of three of our classHardy Ferguson, his 75th on Nov. 3; Willis Earle, his 80th on Nov. 21; Ned Dearbord, his 78th on Nov. 24. Burt Redfield, born Feb. 7, iB6g, holds the record of being the youngest man in our class, with "Fergie" close second. Your secretary comes third.

Charles S. Currier, "Slugger," to men of 'B9, has been an invalid for many years at his home in Elkin, N. C. Always cheerful, never complaining, he still has that keen sense of humor he had when a student in Hanover. He usually gets down to his meals but does not go out at all. He reports that the local high school band, subsidized and set for the Fourth Term 1944 Election, has ceased playing "My Country 'tis of Thee," and is learning to play "Bring forth the Royal Diadem and crown him Lord of All."

Blanchard, our oldest graduate member and father of our class baby, is now in his 85th year. His address is Barre, Mass., where he has long resided.

Secretary, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, Mass.