1888

Spalding has left Florida and passed the winter at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. L. Burnham, in Melrose, Mass. He has two grandsons living at home, Edwin L. Burnham Jr. (Harvard '38) and Richard Burnham, a talented young commercial artist. Spalding also has a son, Edward C. Spalding, who served in France in World War I, and is now in army work in Denver. Edward C. has a daughter Sylvia, married to Lt. Boracio of Rolla, Mo., and a son Edward, who enlisted in the Navy Signal Corps.

Carl F. Woods, Dartmouth '04 of Winchester, Mass., has been appointed visitor on the Chandler Foundation, an honor made vacant by the death of Eleazar Cate. The foundation, established in 1853 to support college science courses, stipulates that two visitors periodically examine its finances and management.

Mrs. Spencer is recovering from a leg fracture at her home in West Haven, Conn. Both Spencer and wife had a winter of anxiety which the good old summer time should change to encouragement.

The Mohican Hotel at New London, Conn., where Walker has lived for eleven years, has been sold. In looking about for a new home, he has found one at Lyme, Conn., which comprises twenty-two acres of land, mostly beautiful woods. The house was built in 1723, and purchased in 1936 by Actress Elsie Ferguson, who made extensive improvements to home and grounds. The property adjoins a large deer park. Congratulations to Fred at the solution of both the eating and heating problems at one stroke. He can shoot his own venison, while raw material for a woodpile is in abundance.

Pattee is as versatile as ever. He was the speaker on February 26, at Winter Park, Fla., at the centenary celebration of Florida's entering the Union. No one could have ushered the State into its second century more successfully.

Then he turns to agriculture, saying, "It is insurance against starvation. So I wage war, for gardening in Florida is like war on the Japs: I find a new bug eating my plants every day. The tropics breed bugs and all of them are hungry for garden stuff. My potatoes, planted in mid January, will be ready to dig in two weeks, and we have had string beans since February, all we want, and lettuce, beets and carrots. My sweet corn is two feet high. We are having a prolonged drought and I have to water everything, including orange trees, daily." And so we still have one dirt farmer—Pattee, with Walker a close second.

Chase has learned the art of leisure, reports himself as well and showing up at his office three days a week, What interests the class of '88, is how he utilizes the other four days.

THE BARRETT FAMILY HOMESTEAD, Grafton, Vt. On the lawn of the home, which the Barretts have owned since 1815, are the late John Barrett '89, U. S. Minister to Siam and to Argentina, Panama, and Colombia, founder and director-general of the Pan-American Union, and donor of the Barrett Cup to Dartmouth, with his mother, Caroline (Sanford) Barrett, seated, and her friend. Miss Carrie Munn.

Secretary, 135 Summer St., Maiden, Mass. Treasurer, WENDELL WILLIAMS 32 Claflin St., Milford, Mass.