1899

Pep, Pills And Politics is the title of the recently published book by Arthur W. Hopkins M.D. The 239 pages are filled with rich, human experience reflecting the joys and sorrows of those of high and low degree in all of which Hoppy has shared in forty years as a country doctor. His early years in Lyndon, Vt., his birthplace, in Claremont and Manchester, N. H., are pictured in homely fashion, rousing nostalgic memories of the boyhood days of many of our college era. His life at Hanover as an undergraduate, medical student and interne at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, attended with sacrifices and hardships many knew little about, is vividly portrayed. The frank telling in detail of many of his medical cases illustrates his remarkable skill and the great versatility of his practice. You shiver with the lone occupant of the old sleigh as the weary horse picks his way along the top of a snow-covered stone wall (the road is impassable) to reach a lonely farm- house in the wee small hours, with the mercury forty degrees below, to grapple with the grim visitor already hovering in the shadows of that home. Closely connected with all the varied activities, civic and social, long the town moderator and for more than thirty years a member of the School Board, on which he still serves, no one in the whole community is held in higher esteem. Against a backdrop of New Hampshire hills, interesting people—associates, neighbors and friends of our kindly, ever faithful doctor- wander in and out. Every member of our class would thoroughly enjoy reading this intimate record of Hoppy's life. It is on sale at local bookstores in Cheshire County, but can be ordered by mail direct from A. W. Hopkins M.D., West Swanzey, N. H., $2.50 postpaid.

Jim and Louise Richardson are leaving for the South the middle of this month and will have their abode at the Alabama Hotel at Winter Park, Fla., until.northern snows have melted some time in the Spring.

Doc Hawkes leads, a busy life with his law practice at York Village, running his drug store at York Beach during the summer season and catering to minor ills in the community, as there is now no doctor in the village. The war and Heaven summoned them.

All of us should have pride in the great success of our class agent and class photographer, Phil Winchester, who obtained for the Alumni Fund 63 contributors out of 65 and 107% objective set for our class. His job is by no means thankless. Three cheers for him!

Peddie and Mrs. Miller honored the secretary with a visit in September. Peddie had just completed a six weeks' course at Temple University in Philadelphia, conducted, he said, to see if his teaching hand was still steady. It was, and with Mrs. Miller he returned to North Carolina to resume his teaching of sociology at Black Mountain College. He is devoting much attention, in research and study, to world minorities and their problems.

James E. Abbott, son of Pap, was promoted to staff sergeant in New Guinea where he was for a year. He is now on one of the islands very near the Equator and "whew, is it hot"!

Judge Brown, who spent the summer months at his Hanover home, held court early, this Fall at Greenfield, Mass., and spent the interim in court procedure hobnobbing with ye longtime collector of stamps and other objects, rare and ancient, Celery Payne.

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