1889
Your secretary acknowledges with appreciation the many friendly Christmas greetings received from members of our Class group. They are an inspiration to continue on and to leave nothing within his power undone that would contribute toward preserving the solidarity and close relations that long have existed. A happy New Year to you all.
In the passing of years since leaving College one turns back in retrospect to the associations he has had with classmates during the intervening period, to Class reunions he has attended, to cherished memories of those who have passed beyond. While no record is immediately available, it is probably true that very few, if any, of our living members have attended all reunions held to date. Your secretary's record of attendance began wellit embraced all up to and including the 10-year reunion, and, from the 40-year reunion to date the record is complete, but, largely because of absence abroad at the time reunions were held, no attendance was recorded for a period of 30 years—between the 10-year and the 40-year reunion. At our 45-year reunion (June 1934), three of our living members (and one or two now deceased) were given a treat that still lingers pleasantly in memory. Dexter Dow, whom many had not seen for years, motored down from his home in Woodsville to Hanover and spent Saturday afternoon chatting with classmates, returning home for the night. Sunday morning he came back, filled his car with several of our Class and took us to his camp on Gardner Lake, located among the wooded hills outlying Woodsville. Amid these surroundings on that beautiful June day he entertained us with the generous hospitality for which he was noted among his many friends, and the not-to-be-forgotten dinner which he and his sister prepared and served was a highly enjoyed contribution to the pleasure of our visit. His sister was spending the summer with him. She had come on from her home in Helena, Mont. That sister, Mrs. Jennie D. Henry, rather recently became actively interested in our Class group, and, we are happy to state, now enjoys keeping in touch with our activities through reading the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for which she subscribes. We are indeed fortunate in having this connecting link with "Fud" Dow, who was a popular member of that large delegation of fine men who entered our Class freshman year direct from St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy.
The spirit of adventure and fondness for the White Mountain region of New Hampshire has determined Mrs. Burt Redfield to remain throughout this winter at her camp in the Passaconaway Valley, thereby enabling her to find out first hand just what a winter spent in the mountains is like. She reports having made thorough preparations for the venture and that she anticipates being so busily occupied with her sewing machine, piano, frame for hooking rugs and camera for taking winter scenes that time will have little chance to drag while the swirling snow and the icy blasts are on the march outside her camp—l 4 miles from the nearest postoffice.
"Doc" Warden, many years president of the North Montana State fair board, was recently reappointed for a two-year term. He has been a member of the fair board almost continuously since 1929.
Latest report from George Bard is that he has joined his son Robert in Birmingham, Ala., and now is getting acclimated there to the furnace dust and steel-works smoke, which, he writes, "is just like dear old Youngstown (Ohio) when I was running the Petroleum Iron Works there years ago." His Birmingham address is 507 North 22nd Street.
A bit of late news is the marriage in Santa Barbara, Calif., on August 17 last, of Walter S. Sullivan Jr., only son of our late classmate, to Miss Mary Barrett, daughter of Mrs. Robert Strachan of that city and the late Edward F. Barrett. Mr. Sullivan, a staff correspondent of The New York Times, had recently returned from the Far East. He was in Korea reporting news of the war there at its very beginning. A graduate of Groton School and of Yale, class of 1940, he served in the Navy during World War 11. The bride, a graduate of the State College of Washington, is the recipient of a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Secretary and Treasurer, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.
