1902

June 6 to June 8, 1952, are the big dates, the days of our last great reunion, our fiftieth. We want every member of the class to come. Fortunately the cost will be minimum and it would make a grand week to remain through the four days of the Hanover Holiday, when outstanding members of the faculty lecture in their fields. These lectures are mornings and evenings, leaving the entire afternoons free for a trip to Woodstock, Norwich or Lyme. Ernest Watson has kindly taken over all arrangements and will see that we have the best time that we have ever had in Hanover.

Last May, my wife and I drove up to Hanover to a secretary's meeting and the country side was even more beautiful than in the old days. We drove over to Quechee, Woodstock, up to Pomfret, down the valley to White River and up the west side of the Connecticut River to Norwich. The new Wilder Dam has made a lake of the river and if any more glorious landscape exists in these United States, I do not know it.

While in Hanover, I called on Mose Perkins, who was just recovering from a coronary attack. He was looking well and in excellent spirits. Mose is very proud of his granddaughter Kathryn, born recently in San Jose, Calif.

On June 12, Roy Hatch gathered eight classmates for a reunion at his summer home, Princeton, Mass. Shorty Sanborn, Bob Clark,Herm Farwell, Brackett, Dalrymple and Frank Moore, all with their wives, joined Roy at Hatch's Hill. Under a magnificent centuryold sugar maple they had the famous and best of New England dishes, a glorious chowder, and later Fitz prepared a real old-fashioned strawberry shortcake, which they enjoyed mid bursts of oratory by the host and reminiscences by all.

Arthur Ruggles writes me:—"These are troublous times in many directions." I didn't know what to call them or how to spell them but I guess he's right.

1902 LEADERS: Roy Hatch (left), class agent, and Dr. Philip Thompson, class secretary, await their lobsters at the annual May alumni dinner.

Secretary, 7 Ship Channel Rd., South Portland, Me. Treasurer, 426 Tremont Building, Boston 8, Mass.