1900

Letters have been received from Mrs. Yeaton and her son Stuart in regard to NedYeaton, whose death was recorded in the April issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Apparently he was not ill for a long period and his death was unexpected. His son says of him that he was active until the end, enjoyed his life fully, worked hard, lived comfortably and easily and enjoyed the company and memory of a host of good friends and associates. His wife sends a picture of herself and Ned taken last summer. It must be admitted that he could not be recognized by his classmates of more than 50 years ago, very few of whom have seen him since that time. The son has followed a course exactly the opposite of that of his father in that, after graduation from the University of Washington in 1933, he traveled east. He is now employed by the John A. Roebling's Sons Company of Trenton, N. J., as manager of sales in the electrical wire division, and lives in Pennington, N. J. His business is such that he is required to make a trip to the Pacific coast each summer. Last year he was accompanied by Mrs. Yeaton and their three children for a genuine family reunion which was much enjoyed by his father.

The reunion committee is to meet in Manchester, N. H., in the last part of April to make the final plans for the fiftieth. Probably you will have received a report of progress from that meeting before this issue of the MAGAZINE reaches you. In any case you are hereby reminded to respond to any request for information that may be asked of you, pronto and in haste, if you have not already done so. Forty-one members of the class have said they would come, accompanied by some 35 wives and other relatives. We are hoping that more will be there—in fact, we have set our sights upon numbers not much under 100. Of those who have said definitely that they cannot come, all are kept away either by distance or by bad health.

For instance, Bill Edwards does not find it possible to make the trip from Wyoming. It is many years since any of us have seen him and we hoped very much to have him with us. In a recent letter he recalls his college experiences. He came to us in sophomore year from Everett, Mass., joining Fred Jennings, R. T. L. Lewis and Charles Dolloff, who had been graduated from the High School of that town the year before. Bill did not take the regular course, expecting to remain in college but a year. However he remained three years, doing work in the last year as a special in the first class of the Tuck School—made up of Gobbo Blair, WallaceFoster and Henry Teague, in addition to Bill. Technically, he was enrolled in 1901, but all his work was done with us, and he has always been regarded as a member of our class. For two years he roomed with Charles Dolloff, of whom he speaks with high appreciation. He was present at our tenth reunion, but none of us have seen him since.

Robert Page is one of our freshman members whom we had hoped to see, but who is kept away by ill health. At the end of his first year he transferred to Columbia, where he was graduated from the School of Chemistry in 1901. His son Frederick is a graduate of the College in the class of 1930.

Marion, daughter of the late Ray Firth, has been discharged from a sanitarium at Waltham after a long siege of illness, but, at that, "sooner than she had hoped for." She expects to resume her work, for part time, at least, in September.

Herbie Trull is taking it easy this winter, with his health improving steadily. He has a comfortable apartment in Andover, Mass., and is still on the job, but only when the weather is good. He writes that he has a letter from Freeman Corson who reports that he is very lame, so much so that he fears that he cannot get to Hanover for the fiftieth. Let us hope that with warmer conditions his lameness will improve.

Mrs. Chelsea Atwood has extended her California trip to Hawaii, from which she writes with high enthusiasm of the beauty and charm of the country. She plans to return to her Vermont home for the summer.

Secretary, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer and Class Agent 212 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass.