1885

John Brooks and wife were registered at the Hanover Inn for an overnight stop on their way from Potsdam, N. Y., to Eliot, Maine, where they spent July and August in John's old home. Evidently they did not realize that route No. 4 took' them through Boscawen within seven miles of the secretary's home, while if they went through Warner on route 103 they were still nearer.

Mrs. Marian Bayley Buchanan spent the summer at Beverly, Mass., at the former Edwin A. Bayley home.

A memoir of Charles F. Chase by the American Society of Civil Engineers pays tribute to his ability as an engineer of the Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Conn. When this company was absorbed by the American Bridge Cos. of the United States Steel Corporation, he, with some associates, formed the Berlin Construction Company and became its chief engineer. The new company specialized in both steel and concrete construction in its early years and Chase was consulted on many railroad, electric railway, and early highway structures in the period from 1900 to 1910. "He became one of the elder statesmen group of Connecticut engineers, prominent at that time." He was elected president in 1925 and successfully carried the company through the depression years and placed it in a position to serve New England's defense industry in later years.

Chase's son, Eugene P. Chase '16, was loaned by Lafayette College to the State Department during the war but has now returned to his teaching position. His daughter, Margaret, with her husband, W. H. Judd Jr. '34, and four children are living in the former Chase home while Mrs. Chase has taken up her residence in a smaller house a couple of blocks away. She recently enjoyed a reunion with three children with husbands and wives and six grandchildren.

Mrs. Otis E. Hovey has purchased a house in Albany, N. Y. and has her daughter, Ellen, son-in-law and granddaughter, Ellen, living with her. She reports having a very happy family. Ellens son Phillip, after serving a stretch in the Navy for nearly three years, is in the University of Vermont taking up his delayed medical course. Otis W. Hovey '15 is still with the Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh.

The secretary has enjoyed a vicarious call from our Class president, A. E. Briggs, through a friend who came to Warner for his vacation. He reported Briggs to be in good health and spirits and still serving as one of the elder statesmen of Chelsea, Mass.

The secretary himself recently received distinction, or possibly the word should be notoriety, in his home town. He was the oldest man present at the Webster, N. H., Old Home Day picnic. As the oldest person present he was counted out in favor of a lady 94 years of age.

Secretary and Treasurer, Warner, New Hampshire