1885

Charles Chase, our class president, writes that he recently underwent an operation for cataract and that his letter to the secretary was his first one since the operation. He is making a good recovery and expects to be laid up only a couple of weeks more—his classmates all join in best wishes for his speedy and complete recovery.

Frank Whipple writes that he is enjoying his usual good health and like the rest of us is thinking of the hardships and sacrifices which our men in foreign service are undergoing. Frank's graduation from Dartmouth, from Andover Theological Seminary and from Tufts Medical College constitutes him, I bel ieve, our only triple graduate member.

A letter from Henry Austin, our class treasu rer, discloses the serious dilemma in which he finds himself, namely, he and his wife made their trip to Florida last fall by autom obile—now the greatly increased scarcity of gasoline has made a return trip by that method doubtful, if not impossible, and to add to his troubles rail transportation is so overcrowded that it is very uncertain whether he will be able to get back to his New Hampshire farm in time for the spring plantingwe all hope, however, that he will not be marooned in Florida for the summer.

Through the courtesy of "Biff" Kelly '86, editor, the secretary was pleased to receive a copy of the recently published letters of his class and their families in pamphlet form, the perusal of which shows how appropriately he describes 'B6 as a "family class." When we first met 6n/2 years ago, our respective classes were, of course, collegiately "arch enemies" but that was only temporary and now for two generations we have been loyal friends. As the secretary runs through the list he is reminded that his acquaintance with Arthur Fairbanks, Karl Goodwin, Will Quimby and Ned Ross began two years previously at St. Johnsbury Academy, where we were fitting for college, while the acquaintance of Mrs. Bayley and myself with Mrs. Leslie Snow began, even before, at Newbury, Vt. where we were attending school together, and the friendship between Will Hatch's family and mine began many years ago while we were living in Lexington, Mass.

Secretary, Kimball Building, Rooms 910-912 18 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Warner, N. H.