1878

Bouton writes of not feeling very chipper, and of being overwhelmed with sorrowing, and writing messages of condolence over deaths and accidents to one after another of relatives and friends Hayt says his eyes do not permit him to read long at a time,, but otherwise he is back to normal and is battling as of old with challenging weeds Parkhurst is on deck as usual and finds diversion in circulating a poetic eulogy of Vermont, the author of which was a pupil in his pre-college teaching days.

Parkinson and son Taintor '09 were, with one exception (Blair '04), the earliest graduates present at the meeting of Dartmouth Alumni of the region at New Orleans, February 2. It was a small gathering, but with Professor Foley to stimulate discussion and display excellent Hanover pictures, it was a very interesting and profitable meeting. The Baton Rouge contingent included Detlefson '07, and but for slight illness would have included Prof. I. J. Cox '96 Tarbell's daughter, Mrs. Davis, who was with him at our Sixtieth, has left Milwaukee for Cincinnati, where her husband has charge of a large plant of the Allis Chalmers Cos. He is also dicretary rector of the Electric Equipment Division of the War Production Board, involving his presence in Washington two days in every fortnight Word has come of the death of Mrs. Mabel Tuttle Caverly, widow of Charles S„ whose wide interests in Vermont she has faithfully supported since his death in 1918. She has maintained close association with the class and the College, attending reunions, subscribing for the MAGAZINE and to the Alumni Fund, the most loyal of our coeds When you saw in the December MAGAZINE that picture of the old typhoid-distributing Campus Pump, couldn't you hear the clank of the chain as you cranked to fill the tin cup for a drink, or the pail that substituted for plumbing?

Secretary and Treasurer 1 Chapin Court, Southbridge, Mass.