1900

I he paucity of this month's news items may possibly be attributed to the travels of your Secretary. He was suddenly dragged from the cloistered seclusion of life in Westchester County to a mad dash down the New Jersey Turnpike as far as Williamsburg, Va. He spares you details of this trip realizing that anyone who has done this can win the undying gratitude of any potential victim of his odyssey by deep and lasting silence.

There are few of the Class who will remember Henry Witter Beckwith. At 27 years of age he was admitted to Dartmouth and enrolled with 1900. His name is listed as a freshman in the 1896-1897 catalog. After a few weeks he transferred to the Dartmouth Medical School from which he was graduated. He practiced medicine in East Lyme, Conn., for many years, retired and is now living with his son in Lynn, Mass. He has never apparently regarded his short .affiliation with the Class as more than one of record. The Alumni Records Office does not include his name on the 1900 records. We have deleted his name from ours. The result is that our Class roster now lists 164 names. Fifty-one are living It is suggested that those of you who keep your Class Directory up-to-date eliminate this name.

Beginning last December Harold Hastings had a two months trip which, contrary to the accepted custom of our Class, did not include Florida. He went to California where he visited his son Lemuel, wife Bette and their four children three girls and one boy. Lemuel is associated with the Paul Bunyan Lumber Company in Redding, Calif. Then he went on to Oregon, Washington and Minnesota. As he neared home, in Mansfield Center, Conn., he stopped in Springfield, Mass., for a visit with son Henry '39, Mary and his newest granddaughter. Henry is with the Elliott Advertising Machine Company.

Ed Jonakowski has sent us from Sarasota a much worn handbill in celebration of CliffMiller's return to the fold after four days of school teaching. We would very much like further information on this. It is the writer's belief that this was a gag worked off on Cliff by his loving friends in Reed Hall, possibly in the fall of '99. Incidentally Jonny writes us that they, have renumbered the houses on his street and that beginning May 1, his address is 760 South Orange Avenue, Sarasota Fla.

Here are some second and third generation notes bringing the Ned Brown family up to date: to Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred C. Belise (Mrs. Belise, granddaughter) a son David, born in June 1952; and to Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Brown (son), a son born December 1952.

Secretary, Chatsworth Gardens Larchmont, N. Y.

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