1894

Not at all deterred by the fact that it was "Friday the thirteenth," sixteen '94 men gathered for their annual Matt Jones Round-up on the evening of October 13 at the University Club in Boston. This number sixteen equalled the best of our records since Matt went, in spite of the facts that our numbers are less and that we had all been together at our fiftieth less than four months before. The names of the sixteen: Allen, F. C., Ames, Bartlett, R. W., Claggett, Colby, Griffin, Howland, Knowlton, Lewis, Lyon, Marden, Merrill, C. C., Parker, Smalley, B. A., Spooner, Stone, E. M.

As in former years, the group was exceedingly glad to receive a visit from Mrs. Jones, who postponed a trip to Vermont in order to be with us.

The secretary read the sketch of Bill Dutton which he had prefaced for the MAGAZINE and also a letter from Mrs. Button which gave fuller details about his passing. Letters were read not only from those who were unable to attend the Round-up and from the "girls" of the class, but also such encomiums on the Fiftieth Report as brought deep blushes to the face of its editor, P. Marden. Smalley went so far as to call it the best book (of about seven) which P. has written. If Smalley had cared to be pedantic, he would haye spoken of it as "The Marden Magnum Opus."

Continued discussion of the report (officially known as "Fifty Years After") brought out the fact that Phil has surreptitiously altered the printing bill downward (he being a chief official of the company which did the printing), so as to have it cost exactly five hundred dollars. This means that it was paid for by Allen Crocker's legacy of two hundred dollars and by Mrs. Gifford's gift of three hundred dollars in memory of her husband. So "Fifty Years After" is in a special way a memorial to these two men of '94.

In regretting his absence Jim McGroty let us know that he was about to leave for his usual winter sojourn on his way thither. Q. Blakely gave as his alibi for nonattendance acute absorption in preparation of his Flor- ida sojourn.

Announcement was made of the marriage of John Henry Bartlett to Mrs. Mildred Clement Lawson of Washington, D. C., on July 22, 1944, All Souls Church, in that city. Governor and Mrs. Bartlett will make their home in Portsmouth, N. H., though the Governor's business interests in Washington will call him there frequently. Their honeymoon was spent at the old Bartlett homestead in Sunapee, N. H.

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge (38), Mass. Treasurer, Somersworth, N. H.