1913

New Years Day and the preparation of Class Notes, delayed by the holidays, is in order. Uppermost in the secretary's thoughts are all the Christmas cards, messages and bits of news, for which please accept his thanks and appreciation. Hap and I planned on a Christmas card to all this year but I did not want to go on by myself.

On December n the New York papers carried the death notice of Adolph H. Badenhousen, Deputy County Clerk of Richmond Cos. N. Y., for the last 30 years, who died of a heart ailment at Doctors Hospital after a long illness. You will find full notice in the obituary section of the MAGAZINE.

Carl and Grace Forsaith call their Auburn, N. H., home "The Toll Gate" and they have a most attractive "Guest House."

Clarence L. von Tacky is back in the south again having left his Titusville Pa., home for his winter home.

Dot Harmon this fall was visiting Jean at her home in Washington, D. C. She returned for the winter holidays and her usual life of hospital work, garden planning and civic duties in Portland.

Almost weekly now the New York papers carry pictures or statements of Ralph Samuels. He is doing, and has been for years, a perfectly marvelous job on the Jewish Philanthropies of New York. Whatever millions are decided as necessary are just a detail in Ralph's daily work now. How he works it all in with his business is miraculous. Meantime he puts in calls for cadet nurses for training.

George Davidson did not travel north from Florida this past summer, but puts it this way.

"I had expected to get away from Fla. for six weeks or so this summer to escape from sea level and steady heat—which seldom went above 90° or below 80°. But I got tied up on some exacting shore protection and swimming pool construction work. Still hope to get away for 10 days or so around the Ist of November but paucity of days will preclude getting as far as Hanover. I think, though I would appreciate a taste of the chill breezes at a football game. I have managed to keep my golf profanity available by shooting nine holes twice a month, or so, on our beautiful new municipal country club course. I've been honored (drafted) as V.P. of the Palm Beach area of the South Florida Alumni Assoc. which has monthly luncheons at Miami where the largest number of alumni are, of course. It's a bit too far for us working men to drive to lunch (70 miles) so a few of us manage to go to a couple of dinner meetings during the winter."

How are you feeling this fine February morning?—think that 41 Christmas days have passed since we climbed the hill to Hanover's Plain. Here's hoping for 41 more happy New Years. In case you do not expect them, take care of your continued representation in the Alumni Fund by fixing your-will so that the Class of 1913 Memorial Fund benefits and your heirs will not have to remember to keep your name on the rolls where it belongs. Parker Trowbridge is Memorial Fund Chairman.

We have received several suggestions for Class President. Have you a nomination or a suggestion as to how the vacancy should be filled—post card vote or otherwise.

Sid and Lillian Akerstrom have been seeing classmates and traveling a bit. They found Howard Ball in Claremont and Harold andCaroline McAllister were in Littleton for a wedding. Ed Robinson they found in his magnificent office in Portland, Me., with its glorious view.

Fred and Mabel Hovey are still on Etna Hill and while the wind has tried to blow them off, and with more drinking water trouble than New York City, they plan to stay on. Bob Conant, Fred Page and HarryFrench come up from Hanover frequently for cribbage.

We have now had more details of Rollo W.Hutchinson's sudden passing from his widow, Gertrude Hutchinson. Wilson, as she called him, went on Saturday morning, November 11 to San Francisco to take the California Medical State Board Exam. He was very nervous and excited and hated the waiting until he was called. After he left the examination room he felt the attack coming on and had to walk to find a drugstore. Luckily he was given the medicine he asked for but it did not relieve the pain. He took a taxi to the Fell Street Dispensary where he was treated and sent by ambulance to the U. S. Naval Hospital (Oak Knoll) at Oakland, where he was placed in an oxygen tent. Gertrude was called, but as she had been in an automobile accident last July 24 and suffered a broken neck, she goes out only in an ambulance. Peter, their son, went to the hospital immediately. Rollo told Peter he was sure he had passed the exam, and Sunday seemed better but Gertrude was urged to wait until Monday when she was to have X-Rays anyway at the hospital. Before she could arrive, however, he had another attack Monday morning and was unconscious on her arrival and died about 4:20 that afternoon. They had bought a lovely home in Berkeley when he learned last spring that he would be transferred from Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, Calif., to the Dept. of the Pacific at San Francisco. A picture has been received of the September gathering at Fay Andrews' Lunenburg, Mass., home.

WHEN '13ERS get together the good old days have nothing on the present. At the Lunenburg, Mass., home of Ben Andrew (center), Edmund Freeman (I) and Ernest Thomas meet for a visit.

Secretary, Box 2057, Boston 6, Mass.

Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.

Memorial Fund Chairman, 340 Main St., Worcester 8, Mass.