CLASS OF 1899
A dispatch to the Boston Globe of August 27 from Athens, Maine, tells that Albert Warren Boston was elected president of the Alumni Association of Somerset Academy. Bert is the head of the school, having recently accepted the principalship. His classmates earnestly hope that he will make an effort to join them at the Harvard game this fall. It was the eagle eye of Charlie Donahue that picked this item out of the paper.
A good '99-er recently sent the Secretary a leaf out of the American Mercury, which devotes a page and a half to a review of a new book by Dr. Raymond Pearl. The title of the volume is "The Biology of Population Growth." Brother Mencken approves entirely of Pearl. It is rare to find an individual that suits Mencken, and the class can be very proud. The last paragraph of the article reads: " 'The Biology of Population Growth' is packed with interesting material, and that material is presented in an admirably lucid and succinct manner. The graphs and formulae look forbidding, but they are not so in fact."
The Sargeants had an interesting summer. They wound up with a trip into Maine, where Howland had been attending a boys' camp. Mot and he thereafter went on a fishing trip.
There was a '99 reunion at Plymouth in connection with the annual meeting of the New Hampshire superintendents. The Speares, Silvers, and Benezets were all in town, together with Bill Wiggin, George Clark, and Asakawa. The whole crowd, with the exception of Mrs. Silver, who has not been in the best of health, met one evening at George's house. Bill was forced to repeat the "Odyssey of the Montana Cow," and Benny pounded the piano while the bunch sang. "An enjoyable time was had by all."
Ned Baldwin's wife was one of two Vermont teachers who were picked out for special honor by the state, and sent on a trip abroad with all expenses paid, in recognition of excellent professional service.
The Secretary and his family have gone in for mountain climbing. In various relays they have learned to know what New Hampshire looks like from the top of Kearsarge, Moosilauke, Agassiz, Boott Spur, Monroe, and Washington; and they also had a look at Vermont this summer from the top of Mt. Mansfield.
Mrs. Eastman and the children spent their vacation in Jasper National Park, Canada, within sight of Mt. Edith Cavell.
The Surreys spent their summer at St. Malo, France, where Mrs. S. worked among the archives, and Frank also did some studying.
A letter from K. Beal announces that he is looking forward with pleasurable anticipation to a visit from his cousin, Arthur Bacon '97, professor in the college at Beirut, Syria, who is coming to America for his sabbatical year, and to enter his boy, Richard, in the class of 1930.
'99-ers report that they are constantly running across their classmates in unexpected places. As the Barneys wandered into a tearoom at Meredith and sat down at a table, a couple nearby rose and greeted them. It was Warren and Mrs. Kendall.
As the Barneys started north with Wendell, they stopped at the Benezets' in Manchester. To their astonishment, they were greeted not by their expected host and hostess, but by Peddy and Mrs. Miller. The Millers, en route to Boston, had stopped in Manchester over night, and the Benezets, booked to start for a Rotary convention at Jefferson early in the morning, had left the Millers in charge of the house when Jim and Helen arrived.
Saturday, the 18th of September, found both George Clark and the Secretary in Hanover, hobnobbing with Dave, Jim, and Mushy.
Long Jim Richardson has stuck to duplicate whist, and has discovered a large number of kindred spirits. At the recent meeting of the American Whist League, Jim was elected its president for the coming year.
Gustova Miller and Genevieve Benezet were astonished to learn that their fathers had entered them in the same school, Sea Pines, in Brewster on Cape Cod.
Gus Heywood has become a motor-cycle fan. He cycled (or motored) down into Maine for a vacation recently.
Herb Rogers has purchased a house in Newtonville, 37 Fairfield St. The two girls are in the upper classes in the Newton High School. Virginia will graduate next June.
George Huckins and family spent the summer in their cottage at Long Beach near Gloucester. George's boy, Joe, enters Dartmouth in September '27.
It now appears that before giving his famous Western lecture before Tim Lynch's school, George tried it out on the dog. The dress rehearsal was held in Bill Atwood's front parlor, before a select group, composed of the Hobbses, Bill Hutchinson, Ned Warren, ex-'01, the Aliens, and the Huckinses.
'99 was well represented at President Tucker's funeral. N. P. Brown was one of the bearers, Dave Storrs was an honorary bearer, and the group which stood by the grave included Richardson, Benezet, Clark, and Musgrove.
Dan Ford and his wife spent a vacation in Hanover this summer. They found time also to be entertained at the '99 hotel at Plymouth.
K. Asakawa, who spent considerable time at Plymouth this summer, dropped in at Hanover, and was the last '99-er to see Dr. Tucker alive. K. immediately journeyed to Hanover upon news of the President's death, but was forced to leave before the funeral exercises.
Just as we go to press, there comes a card which reads: "Miss Marie Louise Barstow Mr. Robert Lathrop Sharp" The class has not seen Mr. Sharp yet, but doubts very much whether he deserves his good fortune.
The Secretary would be glad to hear from members of the class in regard to a '99 roundup in connection with some of the football games this fall.
Secretary, 88 Lowell St., Manchester, N. H.
