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On March 3rd, the last day of the tenth year of President Roosevelt's third term of office, a group of 12 Democratic National Committeemen, headed by Postmaster General Walker, the new Democratic National Chairman, called upon the President in the White House. In the group was O. S. Warden of Montana—our own "Doc" Warden. The President was urged to be a candidate for a fourth term in 1944, if the war is still on. In political circles it was regarded as marking the opening of the 1944 Presidential campaign.

Aside from being publisher (since 1920) and part owner of the Great Falls Tribune, Great Falls, Montana, "Doc" holds many important positions, including directorship of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

He is now serving his seventh year as president of the National Reclamation Association. At its Eleventh Annual Convention held in Denver, Colorado, last October, he delivered an address dealing with the present and future development and utilization of Western land and water resources, and problems facing sugar beet growers which, if intelligently solved, would, in his opinion, give the home sugar industry a chance to become the most beneficial farm development in the West. He also reviewed work done in reclamation projects during the past year.

"E. B." Davis occasionally joins our New York group, now sadly reduced in number, and has luncheon with "Sully" and "Ferg" at the University Club. He reports that both are well and that, in spite of anxiety about sons exposed to danger in the armed service overseas, they each "show an undercurrent of serenity of spirit that is healing to the soul." His son, now 48 with a wife and two small children, is a veteran of World War I and, in the present conflict, is helping to keep the wheels of transportation turning. For diversion, now that he is retired, "E. B." does a little independent teaching of Italian, and occasionally breaks into print in the philological periodicals.

Belated news comes that Dr. and Mrs. Nat. Noyes went South last November and spent the winter in Clearwater, Florida.

Willis Earle also spent the winter in Florida, at Winter Park. He reports good health as he approaches his Both year.

"Slugger" Currier, living in North Carolina, writes from his home in Elkin, that he has been reading Ned Dearborn's unpublished history of his life work. He finds it very interesting and informative but, as to be expected, much too modest. "A wonderful job which is and will be of great value to his country" is his comment.

Few, if any, of our class have had such a varied, out-of-the-ordinary career as has been the lot of Ned Dearborn. His letters in our Class Reports dating back to the early nineties when he was farming in summer and teaching school in winter in Gilmanton Iron Works, in his native New Hampshire, make good reading. His interest in birds, bugs and plants in early life won him over to make their study his life work, later taking on the farming of furbearing animals and the study of seed-eating rodents in relation to reforestation. His contributions to literature in his particular field, in which he quickly rose to prominence, have been published by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Field Museum of Chicago.

Of the six men of our class whose names are in "WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA" his name was the first to appear by several years. As an ornithologist and biologist he holds first rank. In retirement he has the poise of a philosopher.

Secretary, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, Mass. Class Agent, Hartford Electric Light Company, Hartford, Conn.