1894

Says Frank Balch to Paul Jenks, in sending an airplane view of the summit of Mt. Washington: "Dear Paul: Am I sending you a White Mountain picture? Here's hoping we can celebrate at Hanover in '54." Amen and amen!

Close readers of this MAGAZINE discoveredin the 1923 notes for January the followingwhich we quote for those who are not closereaders:

"We are in debt to the Worcester (Mass.) Gazette, for the following intelligence about RalphDuffy which appeared in a squib having to do with Duff's candidacy for a seat on a Worcester city planning council. He is president and treasurer of George E. Duffy Mfg; Co. and formerly served in the Common Council 1942-43 and the Board of Aldermen 1944-47, as Republican representative. He is a member of the Industrial Development Committee of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce and also chairman of the directors of the Industrial Bureau of the Chamber. He is a trustee of Mechanics Savings Bank and or Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology. A former president of Worcester Area Council of the Boy Scouts, he is now a member of the Council's executive board, and he is on the advisory board of the Salvation Army."

Incidentally, Ralph Duffy has a son in the present senior class, George E. Duffy II. He has another son at the University of Virginia and a daughter who has finished two years in high school. The George E. Duffy Manufacturing Company, of which he is President, has its plant on route 12 (south side not far out of Worcester).

Eddie Grover, as usual at this time of year, was busy organizing and publishing the 24th issue of the Rollins Animated Magazine, of which he was the founder.

Too late for use in the sketch of SenatorAmey there came a tribute to him by his law partner, George N. Dale. Here are some extracts:

"Old friends "will recall the light burning in Harry Amey's law office night after night in good old days' of 1910-1920, when he had more cases in Essex County Court than any other lawyer in the north country. He won most or those cases, as he won all he ever got in earlier years —by persistent hard work

"To Harry Amey, as to most men, old age brought adversity. Like nearly all his associates in local affairs, in old age came ill health and the loss of valuable property acquired in earlier prosperous days when no man could foresee a depression in business. But he kept his courage. To a younger friend he once confided near the end of the road, 'I can't get started as quick each morning as I used to, but I'll get the day s work done before sunset.' .

"In 1914 Harry Amey made the nominating speech for Porter H. Dale in the convention that made Dale the Congressman from the Second Vermont District. In his exuberant enthusiasm Amey referred to the delegates as 'gentlemen of the jury' midway in his remarks. He immediately overcame the laughter by saying, 'Well, you are the jury,' which was greeted with instant applause. That illustrated Harry Amey's good sense of humor and political acumen. He never lacked an optimistic approach to the most difficult problem, and seldom was he caught off guard in his prime by an opponent in court or elsewhere without an immediately appropriate reply."

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass. Treasurer,60 Maple St., Somersworth, N. H. Class Agent, 9 Felton St., Hudson, Mass.