1900

Arrangements have been made to hold the annual June round-up of the class at the usual place, the Follansbee Inn, North Sutton, N. H., on the weekend of June 22-24. This is a week later than has been the custom of the class but is the most available period for the management of the Inn. More detailed information will be sent to you (or perhaps has been sent you before the receipt of this issue of the MAGAZINE) by President Rankin. These roundups have been held annually, except for reunion years and for the two years when war conditions prevented, since 1914. In some respects they have advantages over reunions and a full attendance is confidently expected. Be sure to reserve this date on your engagement list.

Something should be said of the report of the Golden Fiftieth. Page proof has been received from the printer at the date at which this is written (April 3), and there should not be much further delay. It makes a pamphlet of about 100 pages and is accompanied by a separate production which serves as a class directory. As a matter of fact, the writing of the report was nearly completed last October but further progress was made impossible byillness in the family of the secretary. When the work was resumed the process of printing was found to be somewhat slow, but it has now progressed to the point at which the completion of the work in the near future may be anticipated.

Walter and Alice Rankin spent the last two weeks in March at the Vinoy Park Hotel in St. Petersburg and report a pleasant vacation despite the fact that the Florida weather did not entirely come up to expectations. Also as guests at the hotel at the time were Horace andMrs. Cristy and Ned and Mrs. Bigelow. This resulted in a reunion dinner on one occasion, when Charles and Mrs. Proctor and JedProuty, who were staying in the vicinity, made up the number of 1900 people to 11.

A letter from Mrs. Condit reports that her son John '49, who is spending a year at the University of Munich, is much enjoying his stay in Germany. He plans to spend a part of the spring recess in travel in Italy and is not to return until August.

A letter has also been received from JohnWarden. On account of the illness of Mrs. Warden the family rather hastily migrated last August from Hanover to Ormond Beach, Fla., where the son, now employed by the Weather Bureau, has purchased a home. The aged aunt of Mrs. Warden, long a member of the household, is confined to her bed and has been nearly all winter in a nursing home. John himself reports that his powers of locomotion are limited and that he is not able to write many letters, but that he is up and about the house each day. Although his plans for the future are not entirely definite, he and Mrs. Warden hope to return to Hanover early in June.

Belated news in regard to 1900 progeny. Mrs. Foss reports the birth of a grandchild, Frank Drake Bender, a son of her daughter Agnes and her husband Joseph S. Bender '34, on January 24, 1949. He is the grandson of the late Calvin Foss.

Harold Hastings, now living with his brother Alfred at Mansfield Center, Conn., reports progress in the manufacture of maple syrup on a limited scale, but one which involves a lot of work in cutting and hauling wood and stoking the fire under the evaporator; work, however, which is enjoyable, as is the finished product.

Clarence McDavitt has been busying himself with a very thorough investigation of the origin and early history of All America football teams and with the claims advanced by Collier's that Walter Camp was predominant from the beginning in such selections. Mac's very convincing results show that these early selections were mainly the work of Caspar Whitney and that the more extreme claims of Collier's are not well founded.

Secretary, Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer and Class Agent, 212 Mill St., Newtonville 60, Mass.