1894

Accurate records have not been kept but they would probably show that class Round- ups have been held in Boston and vicinity from the very first and it will be recalled that Charlie Berry and Matt Jones frequently got us together, one of the frequent places of meeting being on the second floor of the South Station Restaurant. However, our Round-ups took on greatly added significance when Matt Jones invited us to his home in 1914 and we continuously went there (with perhaps one exception when we went to the Union Club) until Matt's death in 1940. Since then we have met continuously at various clubs until last year when we were invited to the home of Billie and Nettie Ames in Somersworth, N. H. This year, what may be considered our 41st Round-up in the regular order was held in the spacious home of Dwightand Alice Hall in Dover, N. H., on October 2. These homes have been so hospitable that there is now a general feeling that we ought to meet in a home if it is at all possible from now out.

This year we bettered last year's excellent attendance of 18 by four. This number, 22, was made up of 10 members of the Class (out of a possible 18), seven of whom brought their wives, and by three wives of deceased members and two daughters. The names follow: Ames, Hall, C. C. Merrill, Parker, F. L. Smalley, Stone, Welton, Cassin, Colby, and Marden.

The first seven of these were accompanied by their wives. The attendance was completed by Mrs. Pearl Gifford, Mrs. Billy Mann and Mrs. Rob Penniman, and by Miss Louise Colby and Mrs. C. M. Strong (daughter of Mrs. Penniman).

The Round-up was featured by the ceremonial induction of Ben Welton into what Bud Lyon used to call the "80 Club." Ben's birthday didn't come for eight days but that didn't lessen the heartiness of our congratulations, the deliciousness of the cake and the felicity of Ben's response. The fact that the birthdays of three other men, namely, Cassin, Gibbon, B. Smalley and Fred Smalley, occurred during October and the first day of November was noted in our last issue.

Letters were received from five absent members and twelve wives of deceased members and from Mrs. Sumner H. Babcock (Catherine Jones) who for obvious reasons has now been made an honorary member of the Class. This Round-up, for which we owe so much to Dwight and Almie Hall, may be considered as a kind of dress rehearsal for our 60th at Hanover next June. Arthur Stone, John Cassin and Ben Welton were appointed a local committee of arrangements for this Great Event, with Phil Marden who is nowadays a frequent visitor at Hanover as a co-opted member ex urbe.

Bud and Maud Lyon had fully planned to be at this Round-up. The Secretary read extracts from Bud's letters for the class reports and the following minute was passed which had been so well prepared by B. Smalley:

At this time, and in this company, it is fitting that we pause a moment in thought of our dead. Comrades, all; but none more worthy of our deep affection than he who has so lately left us. On campus, and in the decades which followed, he was a quiet man; but in him still waters ran deep. So it was that he was a useful man. Useful to his College, to his Class, his Community. Ever a wheelhorse in their service. Friends he had aplenty all his days. To them he gave wise counsel and rare understanding. Between him and his classmen so intimate the fellowship that it were idle to spread on any record mere formal words. So long as any one of us survives Bud Lyon remains a living, fra- grant memory.

A COMMON GROUND for three generations of Aborns is in Hanover, where, on the Inn corner, they were recently photographed. L to r: Willard G. Aborn '93, John P. '52 and John R. '22.

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass. Treasurer, 60 Maple St., Somersworth, N. H. Bequest Chairman,