1889

Class President Hardy S. Ferguson, our youngest living member, observed his 85th birthday November 3.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Frost late in October made a trip to the city of Quebec, stopping at the Chateau Frontenac, where they enjoyed a delightful visit in the quaint city across the border.

A recent letter from Professor Davis tells how he, his wife and daughter returned to their New Jersey home the middle of September after spending the -summer in Hanover. Your secretary was told that they were still in Hanover when he was there early in September and he attempted to contact "E. B." but without success. He did learn, however, from his daughter, Miss Elizabeth Davis, on calling at where they were living, that Mrs. Davis was in the Hitchcock Hospital for a check-up and treatment and that her father was at the hospital at the time your secretary called just as he was leaving Hanover. In his letter "E. B." states that the doctor at the hospital advised that Mrs. Davis was too ill and weak to stand the long train trip home. Consequently our classmate hired a small plane with just room enough for the three Davises, the pilot and the suit cases, to bring them home. They flew from the West Lebanon airport to within a few miles from the front door of their New Jersey home —and in two hours instead of the eight it would have taken by train. Mrs. Davis' health is now much improved and she is beginning to again take an active part in household affairs. In closing he says, "We'll be back again next year if our decrepitudes and finances will permit."

Ralph W. Doane in his 87th year is still active and enjoying all that life has to offer him, living in his old ancestral home in Harwichport on Cape Cod where he was born. He recently disposed of his cranberry bogs which he no longer was able to personally care for. He writes that the Cape was overrun by visitors last summer and, due to the building of so many new houses, only a few building lots in Harwichport are now left within a half-mile from the shore. His daughter and only child, Miss Sylvia Gladys Doane, a few years ago gave up the responsible business position she held in Boston for many years in order to return to live with her father in this picturesque old Cape Cod town.

Hiram J. Hitchcock, son and only child of our late classmate, writes that his mother, Mrs. George H. Hitchcock, Terrace Park, Ohio, died on August 30. His son, George Hiram Hitchcock, is at Dartmouth, Class of '54. He will be graduating at the time our Class will be in Hanover observing its 65th anniversary of graduation. A cordial invitation is extended to the Hitchcock parents and son to pay a call upon our living members assembled in Hanover at that time.

1889 Fund Contributors

11 Gifts (Participation Index 157) Total Gifts: $255.00 HARDY S. FERGUSON, Class Agent

Bard, George P. Bartlett, Ralph S. Blair, Henry P.1 Blair, Henry P.2 Blakely, David N.3 Davis, Edwin B. Dow, Dexter D.4 Ferguson, Hardy S. Flagg, James C.5 Frost, Harry M. Moulton, Clarence E. Redfield, Burt H.6 Wellman, James A.7

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM: 1 Anonymous.2 Friend, Mrs. Nichol M.Sandoe.3 Daughter, Mrs. RobertB. Taylor.4 Sister, Mrs. Jennie D.Henry.5 Niece, Miss Martha F.Emerson.6 Mrs, Red field.7 Son-in-Law, Robert P.Burroughs '21.

HERBERT E. GAGE '87 was a new Class Agent kept busy during the 1953 Alumni Fund campaign.

Secretary, Treasurer and BequestChairman, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.