1900

A sure way to induce people to move is to issue a directory. Already that of the Class of 1900, which you have just received, is out of date in some particulars. Mrs. Geneva Chesley, widow of Dr. Alfred E. Chesley, is now to be reached at 159 Main St., North Andover, Mass. Her daughter, Barbara, was married on August 23, to Mr. Donald A. Roberts of Danville, Vt. Both are now doing graduate work in Columbia. Her son, Norman, is with the army intelligence service in Japan.

Mrs. Nancy E. Stevens, wife of the late Sidney F. Stevens, is to move very soon from her life-long home at Somersworth to High Meadows, London Station, Concord, N. H. (Route 8), where she has an apartment in the home of her daughter.

William Blair, son of the late Walter Blair, has moved to Cohasset, Mass. He is now employed by the Scoville Mfg. Co. and has a son, David Walter Blair, born on June ag, 1947.

Paul Redington Jr., after being in the army for four years, has entered the St. Helena Extension of William and Mary College, at Norfolk, Va., for a course in chemical engineering. His brother, Edward, who was a commander in the navy during the war, is now in San Francisco with the Elmer Moss Studios.

Through Clarence McDavitt's efforts, contact has been established with the family of the late Father Francis Bradley, in the person of his sister, Mrs. Andrew G. McNamara, of North Easton, Mass.

It is noted in the Boston papers that Cornelius J. Mahoney (our Baron) has been appointed by the court as defense counsel for Vincent Chiaie, who is charged with the recent murder of six-year-old Louise Kurpiel, at Lawrence, Mass.

I.en Tuttle spent most of the summer in New Hampshire at the Follansbee Inn and the Eagle Mountain House. The secretary was privileged to see something of him during this period and, in particular, to hear his groans and watch his contortions resulting from a bad sacro-iliac, acquired, according to Len, from his charitably-intended exertions in weeding a petunia bed of his sister-in-law's during one of his short visits home. He has submitted the following financial account with the petunias—Expense: osteopathic treatment, New Rochelle and Concord, $26; diathermy treatment, New York, $40; travel, to reach the scenes of treatment, $20; one hot water bottle (new), $2.25; total, $88.25. Credit: estimated value of petunias (not his property, at that), $5.00. As a result, he reaches these conclusions. (1) Under certain circumstances the culture of flowers can be overdone. (2) Boy Scout stuff is better left to the boys.

John Warden heads the 1900 invasion of Florida this year. He is already there, with the same address as last year—l522s Gulf Boulevard, St. Petersburg. His trip to the south was wet ("out of one tempest into another") and tragic in that one undecided dog turned back from mid-road under his wheels, so that there is now one less dog in Georgia.

Jed Prouty sends a picture of an attractive cottage in Michigan (called by him, a "hideout") facing Portage Lake, where he has been spending the summer.

The death of Frank Chapman is noted in another column. Frank was a prominent member of the class in freshman and sophomore years, until his enlistment as a part of the small contingent of our members which took part in the war with Spain: a group made up of Teague, Moody, Colbert, Snow and himself. After the war he did not return to college and, although always on the mailing list, had little contact with the class in all the subsequent years. Some three years ago, however, the secretary had a letter from him, calling to mind old associations and expressing the regret that his distance from New Hampshire had always prevented him from revisiting the scenes familiar to his youthful days.

Secretary, Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 212 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass.