CLASS OF 1899

The Ninety-Nine annual round-up came off as usual the first Saturday night in March at the City Club in Boston. Present were Win Adams, Ed Allen, Bill Atwood, Jim Barney, K. Beal, C. N. Currier, Charlie Donahue, Walter Eastman, George Evans, Gus Heywood, Owen Hoban, Joe Hobbs, Leon Martin, Jack Sanborn, Ed Skinner, and Herb Rogers. On the table were the class song-books and some fancy paper shamrock hats, while on the walls were some of the class collection of family snapshots, which is to be complete by the Twenty-Fifth in June, '24. N. P. Brown at court, Cav and some of his youngsters on the sand at Scituate, John Ash's family out in Corvallis, Oregon, Doc Norton's from Texas, Ikey Leavitt's from New York, these were some of the pictures that gave a real reunion aspect to the gathering.

Bill Atwood had dug out some of his freshman letters home, which called us all back to the days of the first football rush, and those innocent times of yore when $16.00 would furnish a room, and a debt of $1.12 seemed like a nightmare. These recollections precipitated a flood of reminiscence in which everybody joined, with George Evans stressing the antique traveling troupe of "Uncle Tom's Cabin - supported by Bob Johnston and Neal Hoskins, and with Hobe recalling the enthusiasm roused by General John B. Gordon in his lecture on the Civil War. Eddie Skinner reviewed the circumstances of the birth of Ray Pearl's famous band, and Walter Eastman brought us down to the present with an account of his trip last fall through the Northwest and his twenty-four hours' visit on Bones Woodward in Seattle.

And the message that came from Bones Woodward is the message that means the most now to all the men of '99: "I am planning definitely to come East in June, 1924, with my wife and two boys, to the Twenty-Fifth Reunion." We'll be there, Bones!

Secretary, Kenneth Beal, 55 Botolph St., Melrose Highlands, Mass.