1900
A notice from the Editor now prescribes the fifth of the previous month (instead of the tenth, as heretofore) as the date at which class notes are due. This would appear to make them even less "spot news" than they have been in the past. Such a conclusion, however, is incorrect if the promise of the Editor that the MAGAZINE will be ready for distribution promptly on the first of each month is fulfilled.
Scarcely spot news, but necessary to make the record complete, is the account of the June Round-Up held at the Follansbee Inn, Kezar Lake, North Sutton, N. H., on June 18-20. These gatherings have been held in this place (except for reunion years) for more than fifteen years and we have come to regard it as a second home. The attendance was slightly less than that of last year but 29 (out of 62 living members) were present, as follows: Bigelow, Brooks, Butterfield, Cristy, Dunlap, Fletcher, Goodhue, Hadlock, Hayden, Jenkins, Jennings, Mahoney, Manion, Mathes, Moody, Prescott, Putnam, Rankin, Richardson, Roberts, Sampson, Sears, Tong, Trull, Tuttle, Virgin, Wallace, Warden, Woodman. The week-end was unusually enjoyable and was pronounced by all to be an entire success. To be regretted, however, was the absence of the regulars, Clarence McDavitt and ChelseaAtwood, both constant in their attendance at these meetings, but kept away from this by ill health.
Both Chelsea and Clarence have been having a rather tough time of it in recent months. The former has just submitted to a serious operation, recovery from which seems to be assured. Mac's sphere of action since Christmas has been more limited than is agreeable to one of his energetic habits and the period has included several spells of hospitalization which, it is hoped and believed, will restore a large measure of his former health.
This more limited degree of activity, however, has in no way impaired Mac's effectiveness as Class Agent. Despite our ever-diminishing numbers, the contribution of the class to the Alumni Fund this year was $4325, an amount larger by $75 than that given in ■947- This showing once more won for the class the Green Derby for the group of its own period. It also placed 1900, among all the classes contributing, second in its excess over the so-called scoring base and fifth in its excess of calculating giving power.
Miss Dorothy, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James B. Woodman is to be married on Sept. 11 to Mr. Howard Sumner Hatch Jr. The ceremony is to be held in the Unitarian Church at Franklin, N. H.
A pamphlet of 58 pages has been received, entitled Two Centuries of the Redwood. Library and Athenaeum, of Newport, R.1., containing the historical address given at its bicentennial and prepared by its Vice-President, Arthur S. Roberts. This institution is well known as one of the oldest of its kind in the country, as well as one of the best. The secretary has also clipped from the Boston Herald a letter by Arthur containing his very sensible discussion of The Teacher Situation.
Mrs. Gilbert Balkam has moved from Wol laston and is now to be addressed at Ayer Lane, Harwichport, Mass., Box 515.
Like the famous tree, George Tong was supposed to be firmly rooted in Brooklyn. However a recent letter tells that he is celebrating his 70th birthday by selling his house there and retiring from the practice of medicine. He and Mrs. Tong expect during September to move to Santa Barbara, Cal., where his daughter is located, and to make that region their home in the future.
A letter from Bill Edwards whom, to our regret, we never see, is as follows. "I live in a locality called Emblem (Wyoming), some 20 miles from the 'town' Greyhill, the nearest railroad and bank. It is about 90 miles from the Yellowstone National Park. I have 320 acres that I got as a backlog some 35 years ago. 1929 caught me all spread out and I went back to the soil and am here still. At present I am sitting back while my son and nephew run the place. It is an irrigated outfit and they run some stock and raise beans and grain. Off and on I have some side lines which took me away from the place but the point is this—l always had a place to land and a roof over my head. I was in the oil game for six yearsdid some contract work for others, etc. It is a matter of regret to me that I have not been able to attend the meetings of the class".
A daughter, Ethyl, was born on June 21 to Mr. and Mrs. Roland G. Eaton Jr., and granddaughter to our late classmate Roland G.Eaton Sr.
Through the activities of Clarence McDavitt information has been received concerning the only one of our number who completely fulfilled the original purpose of Wheelock: the Indian, Archibald SmamonIsaac, who was with us during the whole of Freshman year but was afterwards lost sight of. It appears that he is still alive, a member of the Snohomish Tribe, near Tacoma, Washington. He has no permanent address but can be reached through the Pierce County Welfare Department at Tacoma.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 212 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass.
