1900

The annual fall dinner of the class was held in the Parker House in Boston on October 14. The attendance was as follows: Dolloff, Jennings, Jenkins, McDavitt, Moody, Paddock, Prescott, Putnam, Rankin, Roberts, Sampson, Teague, Trull, Wallace. The secretary was unable to attend, but President Rankin reports a good dinner, followed by no formal speeches but by interesting remarks by all present.

The sudden and unexpected death of Sam Banning, recorded in another column, leaves us all heart-sick. In college, although Sam was engaged in none of the routine undergraduate "activities," no one among us was better liked or more respected. In after years, because of his location, he could not attend most of the ordinary class gatherings, but when he was able to be present we found him the same old Sam of undergraduate days. We can ill spare him from our brotherhood.

Pfc. Donald Petry, of Nashua, N. H., U. S. Marine Corps Reserve, was killed in action in the Pacific area on October 10. He enlisted in the Marine Corps, November 20, 1943, on his seventeenth birthday. Private Petry was the grandson of Dr. Arthur Wallace and, so far as the secretary has been informed, the first of the families of the class to be killed in action. The sympathy of all of us goes out to Arthur and to the parents of the lad.

John Warden reports a hasty exitus from his house at West Palm Beach to a more solidly built hotel, during the recent hurricane. Upon emerging the next morning he found plenty of damage, but to his own home none worth mentioning.

Harry Marshall has returned to his winter home in Coral Gables, Fla., after a busy summer addressing service clubs and church organizations at or near Rockport, Maine. He is now working on a book on Burma, which he hopes to have published this fall, as well as a pamphlet on the Karens for the use of service men; the last at the request of the British government in India.

Dr. Jim and Mrs. Woodman recently spent a vacation week in Hanover, much to the satisfaction of the Secretary and Mrs. Secretary. A hint to others of the class—Hanover is now the ideal place for a quiet and restful holiday.

Secretary, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 212 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass.