1911

191 l's next important date is June 17 at the Mountain View. Classmates are already signing up. Is your name among them?

Among those already listed are Vail andMildred Applegate. They tried to endure the rigors of the New Jersey climate during the winter, but the last of March decided it was too much and they left for Chili via Mexico City, Guatemala, and Valparaiso. Vail writes, "We hope to be in Whitefield June 17 for a few days. We have enjoyed these get-togethers, especially since I was not in touch with class activities for some time after I left Dartmouth." How these Applegates get around!

Other southern sojourners from whom word has been received have been the Agrys,Coopers, Fred Eatons, Hedges, Les Gibsons,Chick Jordans, Mayos, Russels, and Spin andPeg Norris. Add to this list those who now make their home in Florida and others who have been there unbeknown to us, and it looks as though our next reunion should be held during the winter season in Florida.

The Art Shepherds will be leaving Stamford, Conn., on June 1 for their summer home on Meeting House Hill in New Boston, N.H. They will take time out to join the gang at Whitefield.

Word from Grace Emerson tells us that she is going to stay on at their home in Nashua, N.H.

We Easterners will be welcoming Ruth Hastings this spring and hope that she will be able to join us at Whitefield for a day or two. She flew to New York in March where she will visit with her family, as well as in New England.

Jack Ingersoll has a fine new position as director of the Department of Public Relations of Hillyer College. Hillyer is an institution of some. 5300 students in the downtown section of Hartford. The college has recently bought a 150-acre site for a new campus on the outskirts of the city in the region of West Hartford, to which it plans to move shortly.

Josh Clark, as president of the Class Agents, presided at the large meeting of about 150 Agents and Assistants at the Boston Club in Boston on March 28.

A delightful informal talk by Marie Peary Stafford was enjoyed recently by Hanover residents. Marie is an accomplished speaker and told in a very entertaining manner the inside facts about her father and mother and their many trips to the Arctic. Marie, herself, was born in Northern Greenland and made four more trips into the Arctic before school age. In 1900 she and her mother went alone to take supplies to Admiral Peary who had left for a four-year stay in the Arctic in 1898. The ship on which Marie and her mother went was caught in the ice of a sheltered cove before they could reach her father and they spent the entire winter with only Eskimo children as her playmates. After graduation from high school, Marie made several trips to Europe and spent six months in a French pension in Switzerland learning French. In 1932 she and her two sons made an expedition to Greenland to erect a 60-foot stone monument in memory of her father at Cape York where the famous meteorite Ahnighito was discovered. Besides lecturing, Marie has written articles for magazines and papers and a series of children's books laid in the Far North. She is a member of the Arctic Institute; the Polar Society; the Philadelphia Geographical Society; the American Museum of Natural History; the Royal Geographical Society, London, England.

Our wandering classmate Ray Carmichael writes in from Chloride, Ariz., where he is currently ensconced in a trailer. Mike is having a marvelous time seeing the western halt of the United States. After he gave up a job as an attendant in a hospital in Illinois, he bought himself a car and trailer and started. He has enjoyed El Paso; Tucson; Frescott, Ariz.; Grand Canyon; Kanab, Utah; National Parks; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Kingman and now Chloride. On his travels he meets many interesting people, from friends of acquaintances, to Indians and poets. It is good that at last Ray has a chance to travel and enjoy himself.

Chub Pease writes that he is now located at 44th Avenue in Seattle, Wash., in their new house, which he says will be their home from now on. He has had his fill of traveling and living in so many towns and houses, during his engineering career of 37½ years since his marriage. He and Lucile now take time off for traveling about a bit, particularly to visit the children arid grandchildren.

Secretary, 1 Webster Terrace, Hanover, N.H.

Class Agent, The Hedges Co., 210 Dows Bldg. Cedar Rapids, Iowa