1889

Henry P. Blair, dean of Dartmouth Alumni in Washington, D. C., was recently elected president of our class to succeed the late Alfred A. Wheat. He served in that same capacity in our freshman year nearly 60 years ago. President Blair has practiced law in Washington since 1892, aside from which his activities in the nation's capital have been many.

For several years he was a professor of law at George Washington University. He also at one time served as first assistant corporation counsel of Washington; later, as a member of the Board of Education of Washington, of which he was president during his last years of service.

At the present time he is president and a director of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, Washington, D. C.

Your secretary is leisurely going over class secretarial correspondence and other material covering a period of nearly go years. It revives many memories. David Blakely was class secretary the entire period. He was elected in June, 1914. The autographed letters he received from classmates and carbon copies of his replies are in files arranged with ths care that David always gave to matters entrusted' to him.

In May 1915 his first Report as class secretary was published. It was our 6th Report of the 15 Class Reports published to date. At that time the living members of our class numbered 71, of which 21 were non-graduates. Today we have 26 living members, of which 7 are non- graduates.

A splendid class spirit pervades our present entire group. It was expressively shown in the recent poll to elect a class president, in which only one vote was lacking to make a 100% vote of all the 26 living members, although one of the votes (from the Far West) was received too late to be included in the count. For such fine class spirit we are indebted to David Blakely, who did so much to arouse and keep alive a friendly, united interest as we advanced in age.

James A. Wellman—our genial "Squire" —is a member of the New Hampshire State Board of Education. He has also served for the past 14 years as a trustee of the University of New Hampshire, being chairman of the investment committee. In financial circles he has long been prominent as a trustee of the Manchester Safe Deposit & Trust Co., and as a director and member of the investment committee of the Manchester National Bank.

In senior year 59 members of our class displayed their cleverness in wood carving upon a cane your secretary purchased from "Chris" Andersen. Nicknames of classmates predominate. You may expect to see it in Hanover at our 55th next June, "Deo volente."

August 24th will be the birthday of two of our living members—George Bard and Arthur Chase. Bard, senior by two years, will be observing his 78th birthday. To each greetings and best wishes.

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