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The number of living graduates is now reduced to thirty-eight by the death of PunchRollins which took place January 13, 1947. A sketch is being sent in with these notes for publication in the In Memoriam column.

The Boston Herald of February 6 carried the announcement of the reappointment of Vernon D. Mudgett for a three-year period as a member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Agriculture of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Meanwhile, Vernon's mother is indulging in a trip to California.

Every once in awhile the writer of this column does not have secretarial service at hand and hence has to subject the printer to what purports to be his handwriting. The result last month was that Elmer Tenney's name was spelled with a "J" and "Major" was not begun with a capital.

Note should be made of another meeting of the Boston Gang which took place January 15, with B. Smalley, Bud Lyon, Phil Marden, and Kent Knowlton present. The secretary was kept away by a cold.

Gibbon asks for a list of our members missing since the 50th. "I want to get myself up to date on it." He goes on to say:

We are facing some dangerous water prospects down here. While the big rivers are pretty low, the local rains are fierce Two weeks ago we lost all power and light service and transmission of information of all kinds. However, every activity of our hotel is electrically driven and for a few days we had no light or heat in the building, nor telephone or telegraph possibilities.

For years, whose number this writer reckoneth not, our class President was addressed at Kimball Building at Boston. That is to be changed as the following announcement shows:

Frederick C. Allen Rutherford E. Smith Frederick D. Bonner and John F. Carr announce their association in the practice of law under the name of ALLEN, SMITH & BONNER 31 State Street Boston 9- Lafayette 4325

Ted is still resting at his home 152 Waban Ave., Waban (in the city of Newton). But the prospect seems good that from time to time he can soon visit his new office.

Mart Sherman has been given a high compliment by that dean of American journalists, Oswald Garrison Villard. Says Villard:

Hartford is fortunate in having one of the few distinguished editors remaining—Maurice S. Sherman, who is both editor and publisher and therefore in control of its policies. For some unusual reason, Mr. Sherman retains his ability to analyze and evaluate when he takes up his editorial pen, and, Republican that he is, is ready to do justice to the other fellow; he can even see a lot of good in a Democrat like Jim Farley, and he draws upon a well-fortified memory which is aware that the history of the United States did not begin with the New Deal and World War I. He is fortunate in having a most conservative and rock-ribbed Republican community to appeal to and he carries it with him when he occasionally bolts party nominations. The Couvant is without question one of the cleanest, ablest and most respected of our newspapers and it illustrates as clearly as the Herald-Tribune how the changes of a century have affected the best of the conservative wing of our press.

Secretaryf 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass. Treasurer, 89 Prospect St., Somersworth, N. H.