1902

An appeal to Dr. Philip P. Thompson, oar class president, for another of his inimitable "Then and Now" articles about the College, which the readers of the '02 Newsletters have been enjoying for some time, brought merely the suggestion that an addition might be made to a recent one, entitled, "Transportation to Hanover, Then and Now," by reporting that an airplane trip from Portland to Hanover for "Hoppy's" funeral took considerably less than one hour. Quite a change from the old horse-and-buggy days. Even the trip from the Norwich station to the corner by Lou Meade's drug store that Hoppy himself must have taken often when he had an extra quarter was quite a journey in Hamp Howe's stagecoach.

Of himself, Phil writes that in the past three years, he and his wife, Jennie, have spent delightful "foliage" weeks at Spalding Inn in Whitefield, N. H., where Ned Kenerson '03 has added to their pleasure by taking them on charming trips through New Hampshire and Vermont. Ned was born in Vermont and knows every inch of that area since he traveled all over it, selling books shortly after he graduated from Dartmouth. "The trip down the Connecticut," Phil writes, "from Littleton, N. H., to Hanover on the east side of the river and back up the west side in late September is one that can't be beaten for beauty and color, fine old homes and red barns with the background of the colors of turning maples and oaks, wild blueberry leaves and the plum color of the ash."

Speaking of selling books will remind one of others who also started that way. Among them is Bert Briggs. He graduated with '01, since he took extra work at the Cornell Summer School, but he always considered himself a member of '02, with whom he started. He has left us now, but his running mate, Duckie Drake, is still very much with us. He writes that after hurried trips among the Greek islands in previous years, he has at last spent a wonderful leisurely time there, with a week in Crete and another on Corfu. He is now relaxing in Baden Baden and plans to spend some time in a glorious (he says, "The most glorious") villa on the Riviera.

Incidentally the Drake Room in the Hopkins Center seems to be filling as great a need for conferences of all kinds as the Center itself does for the College as a whole. The Bulletin board in the lobby of the Inn carries frequent notices of meetings in the "Drake Room." Although '02 is not mentioned, Duckie continues to cast vicarious glory on the Class.

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