1889

While his classmates were gathered in Hanover for our 65th-Year Reunion, Ralph W.Doane, our only living non-graduate member, unable to be present, was greatly pleased to receive a beautiful scroll engraved with his name and a brief life sketch. It was a scroll such as Harry Frost, endowed with the discriminating taste of a discerning critic, had especially engraved for presentation to each of our living members to keep alive the happy memories of our 65th Reunion, at which all five of our living graduate members were present. This record of attendance, made at what most likely will be our final 5th-year anniversary reunion, perhaps was - and probably is - a record for attendance at a 65th-year reunion in the history of the College.

Closely following our June reunion, Class President Hardy Ferguson was called to Jacksonville, Fla., on a professional business trip. The heat there was terrific, he said, but he found it scarcely better on getting back to New York, where he was obliged to stop two days before returning to the cool, refreshing atmosphere of his Cape Elizabeth home on the coast of Maine, where he remained throughout the summer.

George Bard, rejuvenated by his air-flight North last June, spent his 89th birthday on August 24 at his home in Alabama in the "deep South." Again back in Birmingham with his son and family, who had been so much concerned about the aged parent undertaking the risk of a trip North, he now is contented and once more happy after having had the pleasure of again seeing all his living classmates and joining with them in observing the 65th anniversary of our graduation.

The family of our late classmate BenjaminF. Ellis, living in Evanston, Ill., took much interest in the deliberations of the World Council of Churches holding its meetings in August on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston. Great difficulty was experienced by the different churches in finding homes to house the hundreds of privileged visitors assembled there from all over the world. Mrs. Ellis writes that her next-door neighbor, who spends the summers in Canada, offered her home; and daughter Peggy (Miss Margaret T. Ellis) volunteered to take charge of it, which included preparing and serving breakfast to the notable guests housed there.

Mrs. Burt Redfeld, who returned to her cabin retreat in the Passaconaway Valley after attending our 65th-Year Reunion, made a two-weeks visit in August at the camp of Mr.and Mrs. Harry Frost on Crystal Lake in New Hampshire, where they spent the summer. On July 6 our genial classmate observed his 88th birthday by attending a dinner given in his honor in recognition of the anniversary by members of his family.

Mrs. Robert B. Taylor writes from England that Mr. Taylor is sailing for home in early September in time to be back the middle of the month at the opening of Phillips Andover Academy where he is an instructor in Spanish. She will remain with David, her young nephew in England, where the school he has been attending does not begin until late in September. Soon thereafter Mrs. Taylor will return home by ship with her luggage and motor car. During the year abroad both she and her husband, a graduate of Harvard, have enjoyed receiving and reading the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and Mrs. Taylor, daughter of our late classmate, Dr. David N. Blakely, has renewed her subscription for the coming year.

Our classmate E. B. Davis, professor emeritus at Rutgers University and long head of the department of Romance Languages there, spent the summer in Hanover after attending our 65th-Year Reunion, during which, on Commencement Day, the 88th anniversary of his birth was observed. In late July he entered Hitchcock Hospital after an attack of pneumonia, an illness that previously had necessitated his receiving treatment there. This time it took only five days for the doctor to sufficiently fix him up to allow his discharge. Heretofore, "E.B." says, the doctors have used sulfanamides, or penicillin, to both of which he now is allergic; so this time it was done with streptomycin and erythromycin. The former, he says, was discovered by a colleague of his at Rutgers and little did he ever imagine he sometime would have his colleague to thank for rehabilitation.

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