Dan Hemingray sends letter for club meeting

NEWS FROM THE CLASSES

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1879.

EDWIN C. MILLER, Sec., WAKEFIELD, MASS.

The thirty-first annual meeting of the class of '79 was held at the Hotel Knickerbocker, New York, on Saturday evening, January 21, 1911. The dinner was held with the Technology Club of New York who were holding their annual dinner. Those present were Fred H. Lane, Walter Large and Edwin C. Miller. Mr. Jenks and Mr. Fullerton were expected but were unavoidably detained. Many of the class were away from their homes, some being abroad, which explains the small attendance. B. H. Locke, '73, and D. W. French, '83, were seated at the same table with '79. It was with much sorrow that the secretary of the class, just before the dinner, learned of the death of our classmate, Horace J. Howe, on the morning of January 21, at his home in Yonkers, N. Y. A floral wreath was sent for the funeral services as a tribute from the class, and the secretary attended the services held in Yonkers. The following officers were elected for the year 1910-1911, twenty-one ballots being cast: President, Allan Jenks of New York; vice- president, L. J. Howe of Marlboro, Mass.; secretary, Edwin C. Miller of Wakefield, Mass.; business committee, Richard H. Morgan, Plymouth, Mass., and George F. Blake, Jr., of Worcester, Mass. Letters were received from A. B. Harlow of Pittsburg, Pa., D. C. Hemingray of Covington, KY., W. S. Stearns of Lockland, Ohio, W. H. Rea of Pittsburg, Pa., George F. Riggs of Carlisle, Pa., L. P. Howe, Marlboro, Mass., George F. Blake, Jr., Worcester, Mass., Col. R. H. Morgan, Plymouth, Mass., Prof. R. W. Lodge, Redlands, Cal. Others sending notices that they would be unable to attend were F. G. Stantial, S. A. Sargent, J. W. Cabot, C. S. Gooding, W. S. Haseltine of Boston, Wilson Eyre of Philadelphia, Horace J. Howe, Prof. William H. Pickering of Cambridge and Henry G. Hall of Salem. An interesting letter was received from Harry H. Campbell, who is still at Hotel Chalfonte, Atlantic City. The speakers of the evening were President Maclaurin, Prof. R. H. Richards, Charles Hayden and others, and were instructive and interesting. Their subject was on the present condition and the future of the Institute. Singing and merriment by the members of some of the younger classes made the evening one of enjoyment.