1900
This year it seemed impossible to arrange the usual class dinner, held in Boston in November. In place of it the committee secured a large room in the Copley Plaza for the afternoon of February 26, the date of the annual dinner of the Boston Alumni Association. Here it was hoped that as many of the class as possible would gather for the afternoon, whether planning to attend the dinner or not, with the evening available, after the dinner, for further sociability. Admittedly an experiment, the plan worked better than expectations. Seventeen were in attendance, as follows: Atwood, Brooks, Dolloff, Jenkins, Jennings, McDavitt, Manion, Paddock, Prescott, Putnam, Rankin, Richardson, Roberts, Sampson, Trull, Wallace, Woodman. Many attended the dinner. Two unregenerate members, however, sneaked out before the speaking, giving as their excuse that they had "important class business" to discuss. Later these persons were severely reproved by the majority of the class that remained and were told that they missed a great deal in not listening to the speeches a reproof accepted with due humility by the guilty persons, of whom the secretary blushes to admit that he was one.
Certain news items were collected. CharlesDolloff, from Concord, looks well and when called upon gave his usual expert evidence upon problems psychiatric and otherwise. Clarence McDavitt, busy as usual, cheerfully accepted various contributions to the Alumni Fund, brought in as peace offerings. He also acted as an efficient clerk in recording orders for certain materials which some members of the class desired to procure from other parts of the hotel. Walter Rankin was the "committee" arranging the whole affair, the other members of that group merely accepting the credit. Joe Manion says that he has bronchitis, for which his physician recommends Arizona, but for the present Joe is making a trial of Arlington, Mass. John Putnam, down from Windsor, Vt., reports that his grandson, for a time at Dartmouth, has secured an appointment at West Point and is now enrolled as a cadet. Arthur Roberts is well settled in his new home at Natick, a house adequate for reasonable entertainment but not so spacious as the ten-room dwelling which he occupied for so many years at St. George's School. ArthurWallace has joined the distinguished group of great grandfathers, thus doubling our membership in that club, Fred Smith being the only one of us previously eligible. Jim Woodman reports that his hip is almost as well as it was before his long confinement for treatment of the obstreperous joint. Despite his lameness, he carries out daily his normal schedule of surgery at the Franklin Hospital. In the late evening the secretary yielded to the importunities of Judge Benjamin F. Prescott, of Milford, N. H„ to explain atomic energy in detail. This the secretary did, much to the boredom of Walter Rankin, Jim Woodman, also present, and, it may be suspected, the questioner himself. Harry Sampson, however, with his coat and hat on ready to depart, warmed up to the discussion, removing these garments, then donning them again and repeating the process three or four times as the exposition became to him, in turn, interesting or boring. The secretary would like to attribute this interest to his own clarity of exposition, but he has the sneaking suspicion that Harry knows all about the subject and delayed his departure solely because he did not wish Jim and Walter and the J udge to be exposed to false, perhaps illegal, doctrine.
Some notes from the families of deceased members: Mrs. Augustus Hadley has left her home in Marion and is now living with her mother at Wareham, Mass. Her son, Charles, is doing graduate work in M.I.T. Mrs. H. H. Sears, at Gales Ferry, Conn., has been confined to the hospital for six weeks with a knee injury. Mrs. R. G. Eaton is at the Antilla, Coral Gables, Fla. Her son Roland G. is manager of the Hotel Columbia at Columbia, S. C. Mrs. J. J. Buckley is also in Florida, spending the winter in St. Petersburg.
Harry Marshall is serving this winter as interim pastor of the Plymouth Church at Miami. Jed Prouty should be added to the list of Florida visitors published last month.
THE 47TH ANNUAL CLASS ROUNDUP FOR THE CLASS OF 1899 at the University Club in Boston on the first of last month had a fine turnout as the above picture will show. Left to right, seated, Donahue, Wat- son, Storrs, Sleeper, Benezet, and Rogers. Standing, Skinner, Kendall, Wiggin, Hoban, Corey, Parker, Hawkes, Gannon, Winchester, Dearborn, Barney, Allen, Surrey, Irving, Silver, Clark and Huckins.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 212 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass.
ANNUAL NEW YORK DINNER, APRIL 16 HOTEL COMMODORE AT 6:30 P.M.
