1883

During the month of September, the secretary had planned to take a vacation at his summer camp on Lake Morey, Fairlee, Vt., but had spent but one night there when he was forced to seek medical aid at Hanover. The Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital was filled to overflowing, but through the good graces of Dr. John P. Bowler '15 and the kind consideration of the administration of the institution, I was admitted to Dick Hall's House. I was ordered to bed for a possible three weeks' stay. Upon the diagnosis of Dr. Bowler and Dr. Lobitz, both alumni of the Mayo Clinic and now practitioners in the Hitchcock Clinic, I had fallen a victim of that dread and agonizing skin disease, dermatitis. I had never heard of it before and never want to know anything more about it.

With first-class medical service and excellent care, I am almost my normal self again, even if I have passed four-score years and ten

While in Dick's House, Secretary Johnson '87 became a patient there while awaiting an operation by Dr. Bowler, and I had the rare opportunity of fraternizing with him.

And the foregoing reminds me The college authorities have released, for the information of alumni and the public, a report on the longevity of its graduates and have enumerated the oldest surviving alumni. The first one named as the youngest in the list is 90 years old, and the others between this age and 100 years, no one of which has reached the century mark.

There appears one possible inadvertent omission in the list. Your secretary is in his ninety-first year, having been born on August 6, 1857, and is now unmistakenly, the forgotten man. I take no umbrage at the omission and only mention it to show the facts. Perhaps I am considered ninety years "young" by the author of said report.

Secretary and Treasurer, Hartford, Vt.