1894

Through Gust Sawyer's daughter, Ruth, who searches New Hampshire papers for items about '94 men, the secretary learned that John Cassin was in the Hanover Hospital with pneumonia. However, under date of January si, Bar was able to answer for himself. Moreover, the clearness of his mathematical brain was shown by the fact that he had kept account of the number, 256, of pills of Sulfadiazine which had been given him. He was under orders not to leave his house for two weeks and not to continue any transportation business until April. However, he is philosophical: "Well, we can survive, I guess, the enforced vacation. Do a lot of reading and resting to build up a good reserve for the future."

At the annual meetings of the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children held in Portsmouth, January 9, former Governor, John H. Bartlett was elected president of these organizations for the twenty-eighth consecutive year. In spite of wartime conditions which have made it necessary to curtail to some extent its statewide work, more than three hundred cases were handled by the Animal Society last year.

The secretary has received from Dr. H. Sheridan Baketel, of 155 Van Wagenen Ave., Jersey City, N. J., a very interesting letter, occasioned by reading "Fifty Years After." Dr. Baketel's interest in the book was greatly heightened by the fact that he fully intended to be a member of our class. However, circumstances seemed to compel him to go elsewhere much against his will. Staying there for less than two years, he made his way to Hanover, but into the Medical College. He had many close friends in our class and says: "Therefore, going over the history of the class was like reading a report to a group of men to whom X belonged in spirit, although not in actuality."

All '94 sympathizes with '88 in the loss of its class secretary. Eleazar Cate was a classic example of the New England gentleman at his best.

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge (38), Mass. Treasurer, 1801 23rd Ave., Vero Beach, Fla.