Dan Hemingray present for MIT club meeting

NEWS FROM THE CLASSES

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1879.

E. C. MILLER, Sec., WAKEFIELD, MASS.

The annual meeting of the Class of '79, M. I. T., was held at Reisenweber's, 58th Street and 8th Avenue, New York city, Dec. 28, 1908. There were present William J. Haskins and Mrs. Haskins, Horace J. Howe, S.B., Daniel C. Hemingway [sic] Hemingray, Frederic H. Lane, S.B., and Mrs. Lane, Walter Large, William W. Macfarlane, S.B., Arthur M. Waitt, S.B. At the business meeting twenty-five ballots were cast and polled by Messrs. Howe and Haskins, who reported the following officers elected: president, Frederic H. Lane, New York city; vice-president, Professor R. W. Lodge, Boston, Mass.; secretary, E. C. Miller, Wakefield, Mass.; business committee, Allen M. Jenks, New York city, and Louis P. Howe, Marlboro, Mass. In the absence of the secretary, Mr. E. C. Miller, whose business engagements prevented his attendance, the minutes of the last meeting were read by Mr. A. M. Waitt and approved. Letters of regret were read from Vibe C. Spicer, Edwin C. Miller, William S. Stearns, Charles S. Gooding and R. M. Hosea, and notices that they were alive, but unable to attend, from F. B. Knapp, J. W. Cabot, Wilson Eyre, H. G. Hall, G. W. Fabens, F. S. Coffin, C. A. Washburn, F. G. Stantial, Professor R. W. Lodge, Louis P. Howe, George F. Blake, William S. Hazeltine, E. A. Cutter, William H. Rea, Professor W. H. Pickering and George F. Riggs. Also notices of non-ability to attend were received from two members who were too modest to sign their names, and deserve the obscurity that shall be theirs. The members of '79 are saddened to learn of the death of their well-beloved member, Mr. Frank E. Alden, who died at Edgartown, Mass., Sept. 16, 1908, rounding out in his prime a particularly useful as well as successful career. Resolutions of respect and sympathy for his family were adopted. The banquet began promptly at 7.30, and good fellowship, reminiscences of the past thirty years, songs and stories, made the time pass quicky [sic] quickly till nearly midnight. The presence of the ladies was an innovation heartily welcomed, especially since the attendance was small, and their graciousness was fully equal to the occasion.