1900

On the basis of the supposition that the ALUMNI MAGAZINE will maintain its on-the-whole fairly good practice this year of appearing within reasonable approximation of the first of the month, the secretary hopes that this will reach you about the time you are putting two or three paper collars, an oldfashioned nightshirt and other travelling impedimenta into your carpet bag, blanket roll, gladstone bag, or meal sack, or whatever other baggage you favor for out-oftown trips, preparatory to embarking for Hanover for the most important of all reunions— 1900's first fiftieth.

The committee has been busy; a two-day meeting was held in Manchester late in April, and the various members are doing their best to meet their individual assignments. We believe that the program will please you—of events scheduled not too much, but yet enough; that the meals will please you—enough and then some; that you will be glad to see Hanover again; that you will be glad to see more of the men of 1900 than, as a group, you will ever see again. You have received from Walter a full description of the coming event; you have furnished him with all the information which he asks (we wish that we could be a bit more confident of the truth of this statement than we are) and there remains nothing for you to do but to make the occasion a success by being on hand. Incidentally, however, those few men who, up to now, have maintained that they cannot come, if they experience a change of heart (as we think they will) and decide to be with us, are urged to come along at any time each may decide and we will take care of them, although a last minute message to that effect by mail, telephone, telegraph, car- rier pigeon or messenger boy would be appreciated.

Harold Hastings has been spending the winter with his brother Alfred '04, at Tumbling Brook Farm, Route 2, Mansfield Center, Conn. He has now returned to Baltimore to dispose of his property there.

John Condit '49, son of the late Day Condit of our class, is teaching English and Civics at Tilton (N. H.) School and is in charge of all the music—glee club, orchestra and the like—of the school. He enjoys the work much and is planning further study.

John Putnam has returned to his home in Montpelier, Vt., after a 20-weeks circuit of the country, through Florida to Texas and southern California, returning by the way of Arizona, where, as an old ball player of repute he was interested in seeing the Cleveland Indians in their training camp at Tucson and the New York Giants at Phoenix.

John Mathes reports a rather poor winter, he having been ill most of the time since December. He is feeling better now and hopes for further improvement with the advent of warm weather.

Alvah and Mrs. Fowler are to be present at the reunion, the latter somewhat handicapped by a lame arm resulting from a bad fall in January. The broken shoulder, fractured and partially dislocated, is slow in healing.

Fred Smith reports that his wife is an invalid, confined to her room since last September. Mrs. Edith Gibbons is also not in entirely satisfactory health, having had a slight shock last August.

Mrs. Mary Stickney Branliere, Bill Stickney's sister, of Bethel, Vt., was affected, as were many in this region, with yirus pneumonia during the later winter months. She reports a visit from Bill's widow, Jean Aiken Stickney, who is now visiting Canada but is soon to return to England. She is much better in health than when she was here three years ago but shows the strain of the work which she did during the war as Director of Hospital Service of the Canadian Red Cross, and also of the restricted diet from which everyone in England suffers.

Mrs. Samuel Banning has sold the house in Hinsdale, Ill., where she and Sam, up to his death, had lived for some 40 years, as too large for her present requirements.

Mrs. ' Charles Rogers is recovering slowly but from the shock which she had some months ago. She plans to remain in a rest home in Berlin, Mass., during May but will return as usual to her summer home in Alstead, N. H., the first of June.

Two additions to the list of grandchildren. A daughter, Suzanne, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jean Joseph on March 29. Mrs. Joseph is the daughter of the late Ted Cate. Peter VanDyke Emerson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Emerson '38, was born on April 23. He is the grandson of Natt Emerson of our class.

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