1894

This is Phil Marden speaking, as pinchhitter for our class secretary, Charlie Merrill. Charlie told you this was going to happen in the last issue of this MAGAZINE. At the moment he is making a sort of good-will tour, a la Eisenhower, in the sunny South, where he expects to call on a number of the '94 family, including our poet laureate, Eddie Grover, retired Professor of Books at Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.; Mrs. Ben Welton in Vero Beach; Mrs. Billy Ames, who is also in Florida; Mrs. Aubrey Lewis, not quite so far South; Mr. and Mrs. Kent Knowlton, of Nutley, N. J.; and possibly more. He is to return to Cambridge around Easter-time. I am very glad to pinch-hit for him, but expect to go down swinging.

Charlie did ask how John Cassin, whose recent death we all mourn, came to bear the nickname "King." As I recall it, this was due to a certain lecturer, who came to Hanover in our freshman year. He talked on NearEastern ancient history and had a good deal to say about an early King Bar-Ashur, and this suggested "Bar Cassin," John's earlier nickname, which of course derived from the name of his home port, Bar Mills, Me. I'm not positive, but that's my recollection. Got any better explanation?

C. C. also sends along a very nice letter from Decker Field's daughter, Jean, now Mrs. Faires. It is dated early last year and is rather too long for inclusion here, but contains many items of interest about the Field family, now divided in residence between Lincoln and Omaha, Neb. Jean also enclosed a gift to the Alumni Fund in her father's name. I believe it got listed as a donation from a non-existent alumnus named "Deckerfield," which caused some confusion for a time. But it was ultimately ironed out, so our well-remembered and universally beloved Decker is duly memorialized.

The class of '94 now numbers, according to C. C., only nine men. They are, all of them, at least octogenarians, and C. C. can tell you just when we shall, if we live, break into the ninety age-bracket. It won't be long now! Also, by just sticking around, I have acquired some extra titles, myself. Officially, I'm only Bequest Chairman for '94; but as I am chairman of the Executive. Committee, C. C. insists I'm also Class - and now I'm subbing in as Class Secretary. We've even begun to recruit members from much younger classes. Bob Burroughs, Sherm's son, is on our executive committee; and Woodie Parker's son is our acting-treasurer. I don't know as much about my classmates as C. C. does, so can't dig up much of a news-letter, and I have no chance of consulting my honorary classmate, Charlotte Ford Morrison, who knows even more about us than Charlie does. So I guess this will have to do.

Oh, one thing more. Mrs. Faires also referred to Bob Burroughs '21 as having been chosen to a three-year terra as an Overseer for Tuck School, to take the place of Ort Hicks '21, who has been elevated to a vicepresidency of the College, and resigned from the Tuck School ;post. So '94 and its sons still get around.

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass.

Class Agent, 18 Center St., Nutley, N. J.