1902

Our Class President, Phil Thompson, has submitted a splendid article, entitled, "The Hopkins Center, by an old Grad" which will appear as a class Newsletter, though it deserves a much wider circulation than we can give it there. At any rate he complains that it makes him feel passe to find nothing from 1902 in the Alumni Notes in the MAGAZINE. The omission has been made in the interest of saving space. But since Phil is anything but passe, and also to meet the desires of a number of others, the secretary will in the future try to find items that may be of interest to other classes as well as our own and so avoid the blank under 1902. The regular class Newsletters will of course continue.

Kendall Banning was so well known for his literary activities in college and later that it came as a surprise to many to find his name on the list in the Hopkins Center that honors those in the Armed Forces who died in the service of their country between the beginning of World War II and the end of the Korean conflict. As a matter of fact Banning had a long and distinguished military career that started in 1902 immediately after graduation with his enlistment as a private in the National Guard and ended with his death in 1944 as Lt. Col. in the Ordnance Branch of the Regular Army. The last of the long series of his books, published in 1943 is entitled, "Training the Army Today."

Frank Moore informs us that as proof of the high regard with which our ChesterStudwell is looked upon in the Masonic circles of the Empire State, "Chet" has been appointed by the Grand Master Mason in New York to serve for the ninth time on the Committee on Masonic Fellowship. He is known to us who have attended recent reunions, as a master photographer.

Unfortunately there is another member of the class, Harry C. Hill, also high in Masonic circles, about whom we must report sadder news. His wife writes from their home, 611 Fernshaw Avenue, Eustis, Fla., that "Cy" suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last July and has been lying at death's door ever since. His stepson, Kenneth C. Simonds, graduated from Dartmouth in 1925.

Secretary, 29 Messer St., Laconia, N.H.

Class Agent, 35 Du Bois St., Noroton, Conn.