Class OF 1899
Walter R. Eastman, who has for years been connected with the Central Vermont Railway and who since 1920 has been general agent in the passenger department of the Canadian National and Grand Trunk Railways as well, with headquarters in Boston, was promoted early in April. His new positon is that of assistant general passenger agent of the Grand Trunk railway system, with headquarters in Chicago. He will be also general Western passenger agent for the Canadian National. On April 6, Walter was given a farewell lunch at the Boston City Club by some of his '99 classmates. Bill Atwood, Jim Barney, George Clark, Charlie Donahue, George Huckins, and Alvah Sleeper were the ones to give him the send-off. That same day, while he was on the street on an errand, a hurry call was sent out for him to return to the office on "important business." There he found the entire office force lined up, waiting to present him with a fine traveling case of black leather. And on the following day he met with another surprise. He was invited to the City Club to dinner by a friend, and on arriving there found a roomful of men to welcome him, representatives of over forty of the leading railroad and steamship lines. After dinner these gentlemen, or "boys of the street" as they called themselves, presented him with a handsome mahogany clock, with this inscription on the back: "Presented to Walter R. Eastman by his Boston Transportation Friends, April 7, 1923."
Albert B. Tootell has changed his location in Montana to Browning, where he is principal of the high school on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation. His son, Thomas, is a freshman in the high school with him, while the older boy, Robert, is a senior at Great Falls High School. Albert is not far from the Shelby oil fields, but he is not so much interested in them as in the possibility presently of returning East and attending the Graduate School of Education at Harvard.
William J. Colbert is proprietor of the College Shoe Store in Durham, N. H. Address him at the Pettee Block in that town. Bill has the sympathy of the fellows in the loss of his mother last November.
Last Christmas, Herbert L. Watson came from Lockport, N. Y., for a holiday. But his plans were abruptly changed. by being assigned to a new job in Moss Point, Miss. Here for the next year at least he will be superintending the building of the largest mill in the world making "Kraft" paper. He is about 40 miles from Mobile, 100 miles from New Orleans, and five miles back from the Gulf.
Ernest A. Abbott made a three weeks' trip to Miami and Lakeland, Fla., in February. Mrs. Abbott accompanied him. While at Miami, Rab had an interesting round-up with Henry Teague 'OO, whom to his surprise he found managing the famous Miramar Hotel. The return trip to Toledo was made by Clyde S.S. Arapahoe, first to Charleston, S. C., thence by rail, via Orangeburg.
Secretary, Kenneth Beal, 55 Botolph St., Melrose Highlands, Mass.
