1880

Shall we or shall we not "reune" in June in Hanover? This would be our 65th and probably our last, of the Class of '80. With only three of us left, the present outlook does not look favorable even though the ban against our reunion this year is lifted by special permission on account of our small number, which is not likely to offer much of an impediment to the movement by rail of United States Navy and Military supplies, or to meet with objection from the United States Office of Defense Transportation. With one classmate in Florida and the other in Oak Park, 111., and the practical difficulties of long-distance travel—so great, so disagreeable and so uncertain—it doesn't look very likely and will probably have to be postponed to another year when conditions, it is to be hoped, will be more favorable.

Promptly, as usual, we received a response, together with a generous contribution to the Alumni Fund, from classmate Davidson of Oak Park, 111., who writes us that since the war started he has stayed quietly at home and abandoned his usual automobile winter tours and visits to Florida, sold his automobile on account of the difficulty of obtaining gas and necessary supplies and conveniences, and contented himself with attending occasional meetings and lectures of the various Technical and Scientific Societies and Associations in Chicago with which he has been connected, both before and since his retirement as Chief Chemical Engineer with the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company several years ago. This spring his time is chiefly occupied in working in his Victory Garden. He takes considerable outdoor exercise and reports himself to be in excellent health.

Our other classmate, Professor N. W. Sanborn of Gainsville, Florida, does not seem to be able to give so good a report of himself. For many years he was a professor in the University of Florida at Gainsville, Florida, but has long since been retired and lived quietly at home with his dogs and Rhode Island Reds. Lately, I hear his health has not been so good and he is for the most part confined to his home, but I hope to hear of his complete recovery, and if. we "reune" again in June that he may be with us at Hanover.

As for your scribe, in spite of a lameness occurred from a heavy fall several years ago, his health continues good, and he goes to business every business day. He also attended the very successful Annual Alumni Dinner, February 28, at the Copley-Plaza Hotel, together with about 700 other Dartmouth men, and heard a fine address by Captain Cummings USN, Commander of the Dartmouth Training Unit, and also President Hopkins who, as usual, was in fine form and gave a very illuminating and interesting talk of the financial situation at the College under existing conditions.

We also attended the splendid meeting of the class agents at the Algonquin Club, April 9, for the consideration of ways and means for raising a large Alumni Fund to meet the present financial strain, of which Fund the College need this year is greater than ever, now that the V-12 Unit of United States Trainees is graduating and discontinued as such and merged in the U.S. R.O.T.C. The loss of this income from the United States Navy Department is serious and means greater efforts must be made for obtaining the amount of the Fund required for the ensuing year.

Secretary and Agent, 10 Post Office Sq., Boston, Mass.