1894

The accompanying list of current gifts for the Alumni Fund should be carefully scanned. Please remember that gifts to the Capital Development Fund are also included. While we can be sure that the College has done its best to have the list correct if anyone notices an omission please write to the Class Secretary.

Notable is the fact that there are twentytwo. memorial gifts. This is a supreme way of indicating loyalty to the College and to the Class Family. It may be stated that in our decade (1890-99) '94 stands, first in percentage of participation (311) and also in amount given ($1,437.00). "The high percentage of, participation is of course due to the memorial givers:

Mrs. Gene Grow has made available to this writer some material of high interest regarding her husband. First, a pamphlet entitled "An 'Unlearnable' Vision Test Card for Use in the Naval Service" which Gene published in 1911. This is undoubtedly a chief factor in making it possible to say in a notice written about Gene after his death: "Captain Grow was conspicuously successful as a teacher and investigator as well as a practitioner, - he, probably more than any one else, having been instrumental in establishing standards of vision in the Navy."

Next is a paper read by Charles Snyder before the New England Ophthalmological Society in 1959. Mr. Snyder is Librarian of the Lucien Howe Library of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School. The first paragraph of this paper reads as follows -

Some weeks ago I received from Dr. Hanford L. Auten of Hanover, N. H., a small box containing two unmounted spectacle lenses. Written on the outside of the box was this legend: "The lenses herein were worn by Theodore Roosevelt during his entire presidency. He always had several pair available — as he was 8 D myopic and could see but little without them. New glasses were prescribed for him by Dr. E. J. Grow, U. S. Navy, at the time he left Washington to go to Africa.

The Class of '94 expresses to the Class of '96 its sympathy in the death of Thomas C. Ham, their Class Secretary. When '96 entered college, in accordance with the custom of that era (perhaps the custom still holds) we were the junior class who were supposed to be guides, philosophers and friends to the incoming freshmen. Perhaps it was for this reason that Tom Ham once expressed to this writer the highest tribute that anyone could pay to '94.

Word from the College comes of the receipt from the estate of Lucy A. Ruggles of $2,775.00 ($3,000 less inheritance tax) in memory of her husband Edward F. Ruggles who died in 1946. Mrs. Ruggles' death took place in December 1959, after a long illness. This legacy is a tangible reminder of the attitude toward Class and College which Ted and Lucy Ruggles always showed. What a superb teacher Ted's father was! Ted's brother, Arthur H. '02, now living at Providence, R. I., was a trustee of the College from 1936 to 1946.

1894 Fund Contributors

28 Gifts (Participation Index 311) Total Gifts: $1,437.00 Class Agent

Ames, William M.1 Bartlett, Rolla W.2 Burnap, Robert L.3 Burroughs, Sherman E.4 Claggett, Fred P.5 Colby, Ira G. Crocker, Allen C.a Field, Frank D.' Ford, William H.s Gifford, John P.9 Grover, Edwin O. Ham, Ernest G.10 Hardy, Ashley K.11 Hodsdon, Edgar C.12 *Hoskins, Carl S. Hurd, Henry N.13 Jenks, Paul R." *Jones, Matt B. Knowlton, Kent Lewis, Aubrey C.13 *Lyon, Albert M. Marden, Philip S, Merrill, Charles C. Parker, G. Woodbury Read, Julius I.16 Rollins, Fitzhugh S. Rollins, Walter H.18 Sawyer, Augustus B.19 Smalley, Bertrand A.21 Stone, Arthur W. Townsend, James A.20

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1 Mrs. Ames.2 Mrs. Bartlett.

3 Nephew, John B.Burnap '40.

4 Son, Robert P.Burroughs '21.

5 Daughter, Mrs. JohnM. Gaines.

6 Income, Allen C. Crocker Fund.

7 Daughter, Mrs. JeanFaires.

8 Niece, Charlotte F.Morrison.

9 Mrs. Gifford.

10 Daughter, Mrs. OttoJ. Slack.

11 Mrs. Hardy.

12 Son, Merrill Hodsdon'28.

13 Mrs. Hurd.

14 Daughter, ElizabethJenks.

14 Mrs. Lewis.

16 Mrs. Read.

17 Widow, Mrs. JuliusI. Read.

18 Daughter, Mrs.Phyllis R. Turner.

19 Mrs. Sawyer.

20 Son, J. RichardTowns end '23.

21 Income, Bertrand A.Smalley Fund.

*Memorial Gift throughCapital Campaign.

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St, Cambridge 38, Mass.

Acting Treasurer, 76 Washington St., Hudson, Mass.