1895

Things and events have been happening since the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE but owing to the vacation period when the MAGAZINE does not contain class notes I am at a loss to know where to begin and where to leave off reporting for our diminishing class.

Personally I have been enduring, for about four months, great pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The cause of this has been a wickedly ugly disease known as sciatica. I find by consulting medical authority that the sciatica is more common in men than in women and most often occurs at from 30 to 50 years of age. I feel a bit flattered to think an aged man, nearly 83 years old, should be afflicted with a 30 to 50-year ailment. Nevertheless I am still young and eager to have news from my classmates.

I was. under treatment in Dick Hall's House in Hanover for this unwelcome affliction and when I was first admitted I had a room next to one where Ernest Gile was being cared for. I frequently saw him in his room, however, by exercising my privilege of sitting in a wheel chair and navigating about the hospital; so I could wheel into Gile's room and have a talk with him but he could not return the visits I made. The last I knew he was at a convalescent home in Enfield, N. H. I am sure letters to him would be welcome.

At this writing I am still in the clutches of sciatica and still use a wheel chair but am sufficiently recovered to be able to walk about the house a very little.

Secretary White River Jct., Vt. Treasurer, 10 Occom Ridge, Hanover, N. H.