1908

Commencement time is ahead. This is not our regular five-year reunion, rather an opportunity for an informal reunion, to which, as a veteran class, we are welcome in Hanover. There still may be grandsons, grandnephews, or what have you, to lure you back to Hanover. It has been suggested that if you expect to attend, and if you will so advise the Secretary, with your assigned room if ready, he will pass the information to others who intend to go.

Word has been received that Dana Parkinson, who was a patient in the Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Md., passed away on April 3. One of the really fine human beings that our Class has been privileged to have among its members, Dana will be greatly missed and mourned by all of us. Had he lived longer, he would have had special pleasure in the Dartmouth graduation next month of his grandson Terence, who is the son of Dr. Dwight Parkinson '38. His address is 418 Medical Arts Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Roger Hill has not been out much the past winter. Not snow, but sleet, ice, and high winds have been too much for his arthritis. Spring is here and we hope, Roger, that you will feel better. Henry-Emery was confined in a Manchester Hospital for about six weeks, and released after amputation of his left leg above the knee. Now he must stay in bed for about four or six weeks, but may sit up in a chair two or three hours a day. We wish him a good recovery at an early date.

Charlie and Louise Walker went to California in April and are expecting to see Web Evans in Los Altos. Charlie is continuing the business which his father started in 1865, in Portsmouth, N. H. George Lowe is enjoying life at his new home in Leesburg, Fla.—shuffleboard, bridge, gardening. Recently George has had a complete clinic test and the report is good. Great news for, at 87, George is second oldest living member of the class.

Sumner Crosby compares our four to five feet of snow with twenty inches on Cape Cod. He argues that the cold wind makes up the difference. He quotes an old saw used by the late Fred Copeland, "nine months of winter and three months of poor sledding." Pop Chelsey reports more fame for the Treadway name. A 20-mile footrace, called the Treadway Twenty, started from the Treadway Inn in Utica, March 26.

A long letter from Royal "Nick" Carter to your secretary arrived via Leon Woodward. Nick is handicapped because he has lost full use of one leg. And he claims to be handicapped in writing also. We agree except that his epistles are as long as ever. As far as we can make out the Philippines, "they aren't what they used to be." Neither is the U.S.A. for that matter. But naught eight is still high in Nick's favor. And that's enough.

Secretary, 18 Bailey Ave., Montpelier, Vt. 05602

Class Agent, 257 Loring Ave., Pelham, N. Y. 10803