1904

A recent Slayton bulletin reads: "I shall spend the months of May and June in the Marlboro (N. H.) Supervisory Union substituting for Supt. Charles Bowlby who has been given leave of absence to complete his work at Columbia for the doctor's degree. This is the ninth 'mission' of this sort since 1944 when the State Board of Education decided that I was too young to lay on the shelf for keeps. Good news, Bill. We shall expect a visit from you Saturday and/or Sunday., June 7-8 at reunion headquarters, South Massachusetts Hall.

"No, I can't get to Schrafft's May 9. I think Washington envies Maine's political record. We've had scandals and in spite of them have continued to elect Republicans. We vote Republican, take Government money to dump our potatoes, then pretend we don't want support. In '40 our tax rate was $48; that year we adopted a town manager; in '51 the rate was $8. Isn't that progress? Mellow with age, Lester Ames."

From the New York Post of March 2:Dr. Jerome Meyers, senior district health officer at the Mott Haven Health Center in the South Bronx, yesterday retired from the Health Dept. after 33 years of service.

An author, poet and lecturer, Dr. Meyers launched his career in the Health Dept. in 1919 as an industrial medical inspector. He was assigned to special study at West Side Continuation School until 1930, when he was put in charge of service at the Brooklyn Boys' Continuation School.

Four years later, the Albany-born doctor was appointed assistant to the director of the Bureau or Schools Hygiene and placed in charge of school and supervising physicians. He established standards and criteria of diagnosis, technique and statistical reporting for the five boroughs. He also taught and trained medical personnel.

A graduate of Dartmouth College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Meyers became a district health officer in 1937 and was named senior officer at the Mott Haven Health Center, 349 E. 140th St., in 1944....

He is the' author of two books of poetry, "The Wood Dream" and "Penny's Worth of Poetry," and is represented in the "Anthology of Doctor s Poetry."

The now-retired Bronx health officer was graduated from Albany Medical College and took post- graduate courses in internal medicine and diagnosis at the Universities of Berlin, Halle, Munich and Vienna.

The classes of 1900 through 1907 celebrated the dinner of the original five (1901-1905) at Schrafft's in Boston on May 9. The occasion was as usual a rare one. Clary Howes '03 was at his best in his review of his operas, "Baker of Zuyder Zee" and "Tu-Ah-Kim. Many of the casts of these shows of 1902 and 1903 were present, including a half dozen from our class group of eleven: Sexton, Robinson, Bolster, Mathes, Walker, and from far-off Washington, D. C., Bill Roby.

This is the only reunion group of which we have knowledge that is composed of vertical and horizontal units who were in college together. The first meeting was held March 15, 1941, attended by 49 men of whom 12 were from our class: Sexton, Robinson, Bolster, Bullock, Maguire, Lampee, Charron, Uniac, Mosely, Davis, Parker and Austin. These gatherings always held in the same room at Schrafft's have made history for a new brand of reunion fellowship.

New addresses: Bernard L. Boyle, Box 852, New Port Richey, Fla.; Dr. Harry W. Chase, Box 491, Northport, L. 1., N. Y.; Rev. Percival B. Cobb, 19 Church Rd„ Levittown, N. Y.; Edward K. Robinson, 103A Elm St., South Dartmouth, Mass.; Burritt H. Hinman, North Stratford, N. H.

We can reasonably expect all those who attended the eight-class party to be present also at our Hanover reunion, June 6-7-8, augmented by Hinman, Bartlett, Brayton (from Idaho), Edgerly, Gale, Hobbs, Rollins, Leddy, Maynard, Russell, Sewall, Streeter, Terrien, and Uniac.

Make your own room reservation through the Bursar's Office, Hanover, N. H.

There has recently come to me an issue of the Yale Forest School News containing a fine memorial tribute to Al Hastings, written by one of his classmates at Yale graduate school. In part, it said:

"Of his high idealism, unquestioned integrity and courage to stand for the right, all who knew him were keenly aware. Of all the men I have known, and I have a pretty wide acquaintance among a good many kinds and conditions of people, he stands out as THE MAN, in whose integrity I had absolute faith. Alfred Hastings (how Anglo-Saxon was his name) never failed in keeping an obligation. And, he would have gone to the stake for a principle. The finest stuff of Old England and New England coursed in his veins. He was of the metal of Sir Philip Sidney and Roger Williams. And like William Lloyd Garrison when wrong was afoot, he 'would be heard.' I am happy to have stood with him, on several occasions when we stood almost or entirely alone.

"Hastings felt very deeply about the cause and practice of conservation. As in everything he went into it with very little thought of personal but rather as a crusader in a cause that had to be won. When we were leaving New Haven for our Forest Service posts in the West, he said to me, 'We are rather like young Englishmen taking our commissions to go out and serve the Empire and the Commonwealths.' One thing I know of Alfred Hastings—whatever the cause, high or low, he served it well.

"And yet, with all his high mindedness and strict devotion to duty there was in him a winsome tolerance, sense of humor, and lovableness for the sinner. I recall one mellow October afternoon, I had a much stronger urge to look down a gunbarrel at grouse and squirrels than at cell structure as disclosed by a microscope, so I cut the laboratory session and roamed the woods. Hasty who would not have done such a thing, was just a little censorious, but more amused, and I suspect, envious of my misdemeanor. He frequently referred to me as that 'free spirited rascal.' For his high qualities I admired him, for his sympathetic tolerance, I loved him."

BRINGING HOME THE BACON: Snapped on a shopping trip in Clearwater, Fla., this winter are Rosie Hinman '04 (left) and Pen Mower '04, who no doubt touched on class topics during their sunny stroll.

Secretary, Canaan Street, Canaan, N. H.

Treasurer, Morristown, N. J.

Class Agent, 9 Foxcroft Rd., Winchester, Mass.