1889
On October 15th bills for class dues were mailed, accompanied by the annual statement of your class treasurer. The promptness with which remittances have been made merits expression of appreciation. Most pleasing of all, however, are the many letters which have accompanied these remittances. They are a vital factor in keeping alive the principal channel through which material is conveyed for use in the Class Notes.
Henry Blair made the trip from Washington, D. C., to New Hampshire to cast his vote there in the November election, a custom he has followed for many years. On his return he passed through Boston and communicated by telephone with several friends and acquaintances, including your "secretary, who regrets the engagements of each were such that a rendezvous for luncheon or dinner was not possible. Henry reports to be in good health and busy, as usual.
The radio and press gave wide publicity day after the November election in announcing whose brilliant idea it was to put in words the political slogan that swept the country. "Had enough? Vote Republican." The author is Karl M. Frost of Swampscott, Mass., veteran advertising man and active head of Harry M. Frost Company, Inc., Boston advertising agency with offices in the Metropolitan Building. He is the eldest of three children of our classmate, Harry M. Frost, founder of this agency which bears his name.
Last summer your secretary made the chance remark to Chester Flagg that Chester, with the possible exception of Ned Dearborn, had lived in more different localities than any other surviving member of our class. This prompted him later to state that in reviewing his pedagogical career he felt that his early decision to avoid, if possible; the narrowing life of a "rooted" schoolmaster had been followed fairly well and, he hoped, had brought some of the desired result. He said that, counting the place of his birth, he has had a home in thirteen different places, San Diego being the thirteenth and not an altogether unlucky number in this case. Even now, he said, he does not feel fixed in locale, for he is looking forward to his possible return to his old home in Marblehead, Mass., for round-the-year occupancy., where he and his niece, Miss Martha Flagg Emerson, would make their mutual home in the future.
Burt Redfield many years ago, with Yankee shrewdness, selected an attractive site in Passaconaway, in the White Mountain district of New Hampshire, where he built a camp for the use of his family. Here they spent the holiday season of many summers while their son, John, now a captain in the United States Army, was growing to maturity, and later as long as Burt was alive. This last summer, for the first time since her husband's death, Mrs. Redfield occupied the camp, near which, in this beautiful region, are camps of several of her friends. She remained there until the last of October.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Frost were at their home in Swampscott, Mass., during the autumn season after spending the summer at their camp on Crystal Lake in New Hampshire. Harry attended the Dartmouth Night dinner of the North Shore Dartmouth Club on October 25th. He was the oldest graduate present and was seated at the head table. Early in November they left for the South with plans to have a visit en route with "Ferg" in New York, Until next spring they will be, as usual, at their winter home in St. Petersburg, Florida. Both were in excellent spirits and looking well when your secretary last saw them a short time before their departure. They still regret not having been able to attend our 57th-year Reunion.
Ned Dearborn and his daughter, Mrs. Helen Dearborn Mills, who went to Texas last winter to escape the cold months of northern New England, left their home in Littleton, N. H., the latter part of October and motored South with plans to spend the coming winter in Florida. Since last March, when Ned returned to Littleton from Texas with the help of his grandson, Samuel Mills, back from war service in the Pacific in June he has shown his skill as a carpenter and surveyor by busying himself in making improvements on the Littleton home. He converted an open chamber into two bedrooms, two closets, a hall and a bathroom floors, walls and ceilings showing Yankee ingenuity and a fine spirit of oldtime thrift in combating housing shortage; also, in subdividing a field, he got out the old compass and chain, laid out lots and figured areas by multiplication and by logarithms. As results were the same by both methods, he assumed they were correct.
Secretary and Treasurer, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.
