1901

The In Memoriam section this month carries the obituary of "Bill" O'Leary, whose passing on December 26, after some months of ill health, was a sad occasion for the whole class. Last fall Bill was the guest of honor at the annual dinner of the Greater Lawrence Dartmouth Club, and was warmly greeted then by three classmates, Hoppy, George French and Skunk Hathaway.

Bemus Pierce certainly lives a busy life. During the winter he lives in Hanover, and spends the summer and fall down in Maine. Here he helps coach football, makes a specialty of raising and propagating snap-dragons, and throughout the year maintains his interest in Rotary, bridge, and writing books on Psychology. Several of his writings are now deposited in Baker Library.

Among those sojourning in Florida this winter, we note the Jim Kimballs at Fort Lauderdale, the Owens at Del Ray Beach, and the Frenchs, Hallidays, Newcombs, and the Phelpes at Winter Park Frank and ElsieCudworth report a grand auto trip to the Northwest, including Alberta and Victoria, down through California, then home via Arizona, Tennessee and the Sky Line Drive. In Seattle they made a call on Arthur Redman. Cuddy is back at work with the Gehagan Construction Company, 90 Broad Street, New York, and as the Company has several contracts in Boston, he gets over there occasionally.

On January 17, the National Life Insurance Company issued the following press release: "Dr. Ernest Martin Hopkins upon completing his first year as President of the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont, announced today that the company had reached the billion dollar mark in insurance in force on this the 99th birthday of the company, making it the 28th life company in the U. S. to achieve this distinction. This record has been achieved without benefit of writing industrial or group business, and National Life is one of only ten companies writing ordinary life insurance entirely to reach the billion dollar bracket."

1901 GOLF AND BRIDGE FOURSOME: Shown at Hayland Farm, Hingham, Mass., after one of their regular get-to-gethers are (left to right) Jim Kimball, Channing Cox, "Johnnie" Ward, and Henry Taylor.

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