CLASS OF 1899
Marie Barstow Sharp and her husband come back East this summer from Madison, Wis. They have both been teaching in the University, but now "Bob" must go after his Ph.D. They both have their A.M.'s. At Harvard they'll be near enough to be neighborly again for a time.
Mot Sargeant's boy, Howland, has been elected treasurer of the class of 1932 at Dartmouth.
On May 9, Virginia Rogers, Herb's older daughter, helped sponsor the visit of Harlan Eugene Read to Boston. Mr. Read spoke at the Macmillan Publishing Company's headquarters at 240 Newbury St. His subject was "Crime as a Novelist Sees It." The speaker's "Thurman Lucas" has been called the "American Jean Valjean."
No member of '99 offers more difficulties in the way of publicity than George Evans. He has a way of continually being recognized in some new connection. For the ordinary mortal a librarian's job in a big city like Somerville, Mass., is sufficient to hold him down. Not so with George. So aside from his activities in promoting the five-day meeting of the New England, New Jersey, and New York library associations in Swampscott in June, he has been chosen chairman of the Recreation Commission of the Somerville Rotary Club. He succeeds Charles S. Clark '82, who served as chairman for many years.
John Abbott, oldest son of Manchester, N. H., Rab, is making an excellent record at Worcester Academy. He is slated for the class of 1935 at Dartmouth.
Louis Benezet will be one of the teachers in Boston University's summer session, held in the buildings of the International Y. M. C. A. College in Springfield, Mass. Benny will use one of Peddy Miller's text-books.
Peddy himself is laid up temporarily with a bad foot in the hospital at the American University in Beirut, Syria. Somewhere in China, Japan, India, or other parts of Asia his world hike demanded one step too many. However, he's getting on, and Art Bacon '97 and Malcolm Beal '28 are doing their best to cheer his convalescence.
Joe and Mrs. Gannon have announced the engagement of their daughter, Frances Josephine, to William Chosnyk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Chosnyk of New York. Mr. Chosnyk is a violin soloist and composer, and has been one of the music teachers of his fiancee. Frances was graduated from Mount St. Mary's in Hooksett Heights, N. H.
This year the '99 golfers are going in a body to Grand Mere to accept Weary Wardle's long-standing invitation to visit him in his forest wilderness. The party includes for a certainty the following baker's dozen, and probably as many more besides: Charlie Donahue, Nelson Brown, Louis Benezet, Owen Hoban, Pitt Drew, Arthur Irving, George Clark, Warren Kendall, Dave Storrs, Rab Abbott, Jim Barney, Pap Abbott, and Tim Lynch. Grand Mere is 100 miles from Quebec, and 335 from Hanover. Weary suggests Rouses Point as a gathering point for New Yorkers and Westerners, and St. Johnsbury for the Easterners. Get this calendar in mind:
Arrive in Grand Mere, July 28. Spend two days there, July 29, 30. Return trip to Hanover, July 31, August 1. Golf in Hanover, Saturday, August 2, at 9:00 A. M.
This is a summer round-up, fellows, not a golf tournament, but there's plenty of golf for those who like it. Write to Weary or Tim about hotel accommodations and transportation. It's a big family party. Be sure to bring the rest of the household along.
Secretary, 41 West Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Md,
