1883

Hon. John W. Gordon, the real father of the Vermont income tax law, practiced law with signal success but his talents were not restricted solely to this. He was the poet laureate of '83. His principal production in this line was the poem dedicated to "The Class of Eighty-three" which was published in my Class Report in 1923.

His son, John A. Gordon, appears to be following in the foot-steps of his father, particularly in the legal profession and tax matters to secure revenue income for necessary municipal expenses. Besides acting as an attorney for the C.1.0. wage questions, he served as town manager of the town of Barre, and he so conducted the affairs of the town that its financial statement showed a surplus instead of a deficit for 1948.

It would seem to me that Mrs. Eleanor N.White has become entitled to honorary membership in the Dartmouth Regulars of the Alumni Fund. Her contributions have been made in honor and memory of her deceased husband, George B. White, a highly esteemed, early member of our class.

She has spent the past winter in Boston, thereby escaping the bleak gales from the Eastern coast of Massachusetts. She will return to her beautiful villa in Falmouth, Mass., for the summer and fall. Her villa was greatly damaged by the last devastating hurricane along the East coast of Massachusetts but she has had much of the damage repaired.

I was much pleased to learn that the Vermont Alumni Association of Dartmouth College plans to have two meetings each year, the meetings to be held in different parts of the state to better accommodate all alumni who would like to attend. I think that the next meeting will be held at Woodstock at an early day.

Secretary, Treasurer and Class Agent

Hartford, Vt.