1904

Supplementing the somewhat meagre information in the January number relative to Matt's service to Massachusetts, the Christian Science Monitor describes him as "a veteran of the State Department of Correction. " First appointed to the Parole Board in 1937 by Gov. Alvan T. Fuller, he served until 1936, when Gov. James M. Curley failed to reappoint him. In 1937 he became assistant to State Commissioner of correction, Arthur T. Lyman, and returned to the Parole Board again in 1943. He has served as an assistant attorney general and is considered one of the State's foremost authorities on parole matters. It has been pointed out frequently that the Parole Board exercises more discretionary power than do Judges of the Superior Court, whose sentences may be cancelled by Parole Board action at any time.

An independent survey of State Forestry administration and practice in North Carolina was started in November last as a joint project of the Society of American Foresters, the national organization of professional foresters in the Country; and of the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation, with the cost borne by the Foundation. The study is designed to help those States which desire assistance by providing them with an objective; independent, and professional analysis of their problems in State Forestry administration; and to submit recommendations as to how those problems might be solved Within each State's constitutional and financial limitations. Al Hastings is the project leader in this work. For the past sixteen years Al handled Clark-McNary Co. operation with the States from the Washington office of the U. S. Forest Service. During this period he visited forty-seven of the States and studied their forestry programs. Previous to his Washington experience he spent a decade in State Forestry work. This recalls the late arrival of the Hastings family of five at a Reunion and the early morning discovery that one of the juvenile members had brought with him a vacation companion in the form of measles which hatched quickly and vividly, reducing the Hastings family participation in reunion activities to two.

The gaunt chimney and sturdy frame of Dartmouth Hall awakened memories obliterated by the snows of forty years when it popped into vision from the pages of the January number. "It produced upon me an effect," to use the naive expression of a Russian friend, difficult to analize or describe. The first meeting of the class—our adoption of Judge Cross and Gen'l Streeter—our first Dartmouth Night—the balcony oration of Neal '03, and so on, to our last class election, shortly before the fire. As a class we are peculiarly indebted to Al Dickerson and his "An Alumni College." Perhaps the strongest appeal made by the picture is a desire to swap yarns again and reminisce with many of the group watching the ruins.

Our annual Commencement reunions and the Boston Round-ups were interrupted by the war and we are already through one year of our fifth decade as Alumni without a Fortieth Reunion. We are using figures here that emphasize Time as the major dictating factor of our future-get-together policy. The Five Class Reunion, and it is a growing event in the life of 01-02-03-04-05, will probably occur this year in early April. A June 1904 Reunion is a possibility and the repetition of the-Nashua one of last November should be a popular choice, as the football schedule for this year does not call us together for a Boston game Shall we develop a reunion program?

Secretary, ' Canaan Street Lodge, Canaan St., N. H.

Treasurer, Morris town, N. J.