1906

Bob Adriance was a guest at a reception on New Year's Day given to honor Howard Chidley on the occasion of his Both Birthday. This took place at the First Congregational Church in Winchester, Mass., where Chid had served as pastor for 38 years. Following is the toast given him by the parishioners and friends, -

To Howard J. Chidley, our Pastor Emeritus, who for 38 eventful and fleeting years provided Christian leadership in our town, vigorous, outspoken and effective, under whose ministry First Church rose to prominence and influence with its lengthening shadow reaching- outward and far beyond its little acre; a. preacher who bit into the hard core of reality in his own life and in the lives of his parishioners; a pastor who was with us in sorrow and in joy; who christened children, their children, and their grandchildren, joined in marriage parents and in turn their children and became woven into the fabric of the lives of second and third generations; strong, resolute, weak only in his surrender to the lure of the casting rod and the taut line; a warm and understanding companion, a man of humor and good fellowship; a man's man among men.

To you, Howard J. Chidley, our Pastor Emeritus, and to you, Frances E. Chidley, our Pastor Emerita, many more years of good health, happiness, sunshine and pleasant sailing, and the enviable satisfaction that comes from lives consecrated to the service of others and from the priceless possession of a host of devoted friends you have made oyer the years on your journey along life's broad highway."

Another of our classmates was given a testimonial banquet on January 2. After 35 years of service to Hanover as Superintendent of the Water Works, Fred Parker was honored by his colleagues on the Board of Directors of the Hanover Water Works Company. At the annual meeting the board voted that Mr. Parker "be appointed consultant to the superintendent" thus retaining the knowledge and experience of one of the community's most devoted public servants for future years of usefulness.

After 48 years of preaching Fred Walsh has retired and moved to Florida to start all over again. His permanent address is 1313 Friend Street, Clearwater, Fla.

Nat Leverone is in Florida resting up from his many activities. Until April first his address will be 530 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Fla.

1906 had a good delegation at the Hopkins Dinner in February. Those present were Ned French, Joe Nuelle, Polly and ThurlowGordon, Ethel and Walter Powers, Helen and Lonnie Russ, Ruth and Eliot Cogswell and Eleanor and Ned Redman. Elon Pratt,Charlie Crane, Watson Smith and Norm Russell had hoped to be present but couldn't make it. Halsey Edgerton wanted very much to be present but felt that he had better not try it.

Thurlow Gordon was in Hanover the first of the year showing off the College to one of his grandsons.

1907 Class President James M. O'Neill with Miss Annah Hazen, Smith '95, Dartmouth M.A. '97, at the 50th reunion in June when Miss Hazen became a member of the class.

Secretary, 94 Grandview Ave. White Plains, N. Y.

Treasurer, 9 Pond St., Newburyport, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,