1897

No news is good news. This is an old saying and is probably true, but no news is hard for a class secretary to build on. Fourteen of our classmates are still working — some on a restricted basis. They are: Tuttle, Holt, Morse, Erdix Smith, J. D. Brown, Henderson, Sibley, Kelly, Pender, Noyes, Ham, Ryan, Temple and Ward. Nine of our classmates are retired: Rowe, Johnson, Appleton, Bolser, Gibson, Drew, Watson, Tent and Balch. Twelve of our classmates live in Massachusetts; four in New Hampshire, two in New York; and one each in Connecticut, Vermont, Florida and Indiana.

We all like to know about each other, and this suggestion seems simple. Just write a note on a card to your class secretary each month. Address: 114 State St., Bridgeport 3, Conn.

I find, as I review our reports and letters, that the life work of most of us has been in the class that might well be known as pioneering. An example or two will indicate what I mean.

"Hiram" built the stadium for Harvard, and Dartmouth won a victory soon after to christen it. This re-inforced concrete structure did very much to advance the development of concrete as a building method. Our six lawyers had to steer the corporations more in our time than the earlier lawyers did, where large holdings were quite often individual holdings. Our lawyers on the matter of corporation taxes in recent years have certainly out-done grandma's crazy quilt. I think a treasurer of a corporation should have a free bed in a crazy house during the month of March. Balch has pioneered in all of his activities in foreign countries - has been in four wars just looking for trouble. Morse started out with a program of designing women's hats and gave up this pioneering kind of activity to sell bonds.

I think Ryan in developing the school blackboard has had a result of interest in this pioneer work. He has eliminated the slates from school and as we all know, the slate has been cited in poetry with a little charming episode, ""You wrote on my slate, 'I love you Joe,' when we were a couple of kids"; and now these same kids turn to art as they draw the teacher's picture, trying not to flatter her too much, on Joe's blackboard.

The older we get the more I think we are impressed with the stability of our classmates.

1897 Fund Contributors

29 Gifts (Participation Index 107) Total Gifts: $1,224.31 (107% of Objective) MORTON C. TUTTLE, Class Agent

Appleton, Fred S. Balch, William H. Blanchard, Lewis H.1 Bolser, Charles E. Brown, Jay D. Brown, Maurice F.1 Chase, Henry M.1' 3 Drew, Frank E. Gibson, Hamilton Gibson, Harry A.3 Ham, William H. Henderson, John R. Holt, Hermon Johnson, Frank C. Kelly, Walter F. Lull, Henry M.4 McCornack, Walter E.5 Marshall, Benjamin T.6 Morse, Carroll W. Noyes, Frank H. Pender, Horace Rollins, Weld A.1 Rowe, Brainard A. Ryan, Joseph F. Sibley, J. Otis Smith, Erdix T. Smith, Selden C.7 Temple, Winfield Tent, George E. Tracy, Charles A.1 Tuttle, Morton C. Ward, Roy J. Watson, Albert P. Woodworth, Edward K.8

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1 Morton C. Tuttle '97.

2 Income from Henry M.Chase Fund.

3 Brother, HamiltonGibson '97.

4 Mrs. Lull.

5 Mrs. McCornack.

6 Son, Andrew Marshall'22.

7 Hamilton Gibson '97.

8 Daughter, Mrs. C. LaneGoss.

Secretary, Treasurer and BequestChairman, 114 State St., Bridgeport 3, Conn.