1925

These be puny pickings, but they represent the total store of news now at hand. If you want to read about each other, you will have to send something in once in a while about yourselves. The clipping bureaus, professional and amateur combined, can't do it all. Meanwhile, space being available, here are some address changes received during the summer:

Donald C. Lyman, 6120 North 20th St., Phoe Ariz.; Lincoln C. Price, 414 Bauer Ave., Louisville, Ky.; Clinton. S. Martin, 39 Morningside Rd., Verona, N. J.; Horton Conrad, 174 Riverview Road, Gates Mills, Ohio; Mott A. Garlock, Russell Ave., Suffield, Conn.; Arthur C.Hill Jr., 1226 12th St., Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Karl P. Lipsohn, c/o Barta Press, 30 Newbury Street, Boston 16, Mass.; Stanton G. Litchfield, 501 Land Title Bldg., San Diego, Calif.; Elmer E. Richards, 2912 York Road, So. Bend, Indiana; Allan Shapiro, 161 Center St., Concord, N. H.; C. Allen Bickford, 2141 MacLarie Lane, Broomall, Pa.; Lee P. Burgess, 1029 Farmington Ave., West Hartford, Conn.; Comdr. Kenneth P.Coykendall, 30th Naval Construction Reg't, Navy 3002, c/o F.P.0., San Francisco, Calif.; John D.Hamilton, B. F. Goodrich Sales Co., P.O. Box 4509, Atlanta, Ga., 2607 Oak Grove Terrace, Decatur, Ga.; Richard G. Heydt, The National Bank of Toledo, Toledo, 3, Ohio; Wendell C. Jones, 160 College Ave., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Howard W. Me gee, Gen. Motors Corp., 1775 Broadway, Room 2317, N.Y.C. 19; Philip T. Molloy, Striplings Dept. Store, Fort Worth, Texas; EdwinB. Pease, 225 Wyman St., Waltham 54, Mass.; Albert R. Perkins, Peter Cooper Hotel, 130 E. 39th St., N.Y.C. 16; Robert C. Reynolds, 2135 County Rd., .Westbury, L. 1., N. Y.; Porter Roberts, 16 Kendall St., Rochester, N. H.; EugeneM. Callis, P.O. Box 218, Sharon Hill, Pa.; FrankT. Kennedy, 41 Woodfield Drive, Short Hills, N. J.; Lester A. Frenkel, Securities Dealer and Broker, 150 Broadway, Room 1710, N. Y., 38, N. Y., 430 East 63rd St., Apt. 8-1, N. Y., N. Y.; Louis S. Kimball, President of Kimball Chemical Corp., 130 Lincoln St., Boston 35, Mass., 49 Newton St., Weston 93, Mass.; Robert N. MillettJr., 104 Powder House Blvd., Somerville, Mass.; Philip C. O'Connell, 486 Ridgewood Ave., Glen Ridge, N. J.; Henry C. Sailer, Teacher, Orange, N. J. High School, Woodfield Drive, Fieldstone, Whippany, N. J.; James H. Walls, 486 Madera Ave., Youngstown, 4, Ohio; Howard D. Wellman, Box 705, Jamestown, N. Y.; Frank J. Calkins, Box 1107, Salt Lake City, 10, Utah.

Two important publications by '25ers appear on current lists. Carl Bridenbaugh'sCities in Revolt (Knopf, $7.50) is a history of urban life in the late Colonial period as it was manifest in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newport, and Charleston. His earlier book, Cities in the Wilderness, 1625-1742, has been re-issued uniform with the new work. Together, they clarify and emphasize the importance of pre-revolutionary American urban civilization. Alex Laing's new novel JonathanEagle has for its background the stirring period of 1787-1801, the days of the Alien and Sedition Act (Little Brown, $4.95). Like many of Alex's earlier works, this has a nautical setting and combines fine imaginative writing with sound and accurate scholarship. If you order a copy from the Dartmouth Bookstore and so request, it will be autographed for you.

Walt Vom Lehn and Millard. Peabody became grandfathers simultaneously when a son was born on September 3 in New York to Barbara (Peabody) and young Walt '53, who is now in his third year at Cornell Medical 5ch001.... Susan, daughter of Madeleine andEddie Edwards, has returned to Russell Sage College, from which she graduated in June, to work for her Master's degree. She holds a graduate Assistant Fellowship in the Department of Physical Education.... Mr. and Mrs.C. Lane Goss have announced the marriage of their daughter Georgia Goss McCaig to Mr. Perley Everett Armitage Jr. on October 1, in Dover, N. H.

The composition of obituary notices is one of a secretary's duties which necessarily leads to melancholy reflection, especially when there are three in one month. Actuarial statistics may tell us to expect them, but these deaths, at our present age, must seem to us untimely. And on a beautiful autumn day, in just that time of year when we were beginning to know each other for the first time, it is hard to believe that so many have seen for the last time the changing patterns of the foliage on Balch Hill. Yet ours was a fortunate generation; our numbers were not thinned by military casualties. And, as a matter of fact, fewer than 10% of those who came to Hanover in September of 1921 have died. We have no need yet to speak of closing our ranks; they are still essentially intact. In spite of the occasional sad reminder of mortality, we find ourselves now in the prime of life, with our membership substantially undiminished. But, returning to the occasion that set off these reflections, there is nothing more poignant in writing of these departed classmates than the occasional admission of great gaps in our knowledge of them. Death itself we may teach ourselves to accept philosophically, but that we should lose contact with each other in life is neither necessary nor good. There is always a haunting fear that the man who has lost touch has done so as the result of need or misfortune, of which we may be unaware until it is too late to help. Now, while yet we can, while most of us enjoy means and vigor, is the time to fill in these blank spaces. It is unlikely that there is a single man in the Class, however obscure, whose situation is not known to at least one other, through whom the essential communication may be maintained. It may require no more than a casual word, a 'phone call, or a brief note. There need be no question of back slapping, false heartiness, nor of intrusion upon privacy. But now is our chance to secure for all those who want it, the enduring privilege of the fellowship upon which we entered together when we were young.

Secretary, 58 Winfield St., Needham, Mass.

Treasurer, R.D., Old Mill Rd., Chester, N. J.

Bequest Chairman,