1894

Mrs. John E. Allen writes to express her thanks and gratitude to the Dartmouth Class of '94 for their expression of sympathy at the time of her husband's death. She says, "John loved his College and the members of his class." We are indebted to Phil Maiden for the sketch in another column.

The papers of July 21 carried the news of the death of Mrs. Sherman E. Burroughs in an automobile accident in Manchester, N. H. It will be remembered that her youngest son Henry was killed in the same way some years ago. Mrs. Burroughs had lived in Washington most of the time since her husband's death, but recently had made her home in Manchester. She is survived by two sons. Robert P. is an insurance man in Manchester and until last year was Republican National Committee man for that State. Sherman E. Jr., is a captain in the United States Navy. There are five grandchildren.

In the Magazine Appalachia for June is an article by Paul R. Jenks entitled "Five Thousand Trail Signs." The article is Exhibit A for the proposition that one man who was salutatorian in his college class and who heads the Department of Latin for long years in a leading New York high school has the ability, the knowledge and the practical energy to do a first-class job in a realm where, let us say, a good carpenter, a good painter, and a good pedestrian are all needed. Read the article for yourselves. Perhaps Paul will send you a copy it you ask him.

In the absence of President Hamilton Holt at the San Francisco United Nations Conference, Edwin O. Grover, vice president, conferred the degrees this year at the commencement of Rollins College. He gave a very pertinent address, "The Art of Turning Corners." In addition, this was the way he celebrated his 75th birthday Reports from Franklin, N. H., indicate that John Phillips has been a reasonably husky resident of that town this summer. We congratulate John on his improvement in health While we are in New Hampshire we might refer to an excellent picture which appeared in the ManchesterUnion on July 26 of "Former Governor John H. Bartlett and Governor Charles M. Dale, the only two Portsmouth men to become governors of New Hampshire in more than a half a century."

There were several foregatherings of '94 people in New Hampshire this summer. At the Hanover Inn one afternoon, Billy Wallis, Mrs. Pearl Gifford, Phil Marden and wife, and C. C. Merrill and wife met for a few minutes in passing Later at the same place, Marden, Burnap, Hoskins, and Sherman renewed old times Later still Don Colby was the host at the Colonial Hotel in Claremont to Fred Claggett and the class secretary.

Major Tenney has come across with a twopage letter which, as was the case in the last issue with the letter from Ben Welton, the secretary is sorry he cannot reproduce in full. The Major can't report too hilariously about his health. He has what is called "rheumatoid arthritis," which bothers him a good deal, and his eyesight is not improving as he gets older. However, he is able to engage in house building and he takes a hearty interest in the passing scene throughout the world. References to Douglas Mac Arthur remind him how he spent time in the Philippines with the General's father as well as with the General himself. He has hopes of President Truman, "who may not do too bad a job." He trusts that the President will get rid of the "termites and parasites," who, to the Major's way of thinking, have been too much in evidence in Washington. Such men he .vould like to have given "a one-way ticket home." He thinks that the "education" of the young "savages" in Germany and Japan will be a long job. With regard to his family, he reports that Mrs. Tenney is "working too hard as usual." The older son, Paul, has just been promoted to be Chief of the Division of Foreign Service administration in the State Department, very much of a boost both in salary and responsibility. His other son Robert is a captain at Camp Roberts in California and his son-in-law is colonel at the Presidio of San Francisco.

On August 28, John Cassin announced the sale of his taxi business to William B. Weston, a veteran of the Mediterranean campaigns, who acquired the Cassin Taxi, lock, stock and barrel, good will, and all that appertained to the transportation concern which John had operated for thirty-one years in the Hanover Precinct. In the course of his career, John probably saw more classmates and other Dartmouth men than any other member of '94. His familiar figure will be missed from the old corner where taxis most do congregate.

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge (38), Mass.

Treasurer, 89 Prospect St., Somersworth, N. H.