CLASS OF 1873

On January 7, this present year, Freeman Putney received, fifty years to a day from the time he began his school work in Gloucester, Mass., two especially cherished letters. One came from the school board of Gloucester, whose members had all been his pupils. The other came from the Gloucester Teachers' Association. They convey expressions of "the high esteem in which the school committee has ever held your services to the Gloucester schools. Pew men, if any, have been privileged to hold so warm a spot in so many hearts or to garner so rich a harvest of loyal and sincere friendships." The greeting from the Teachers' Association of Gloucester was no less earnest and appreciative, saying, among other things: "Your ability to enter into the lives of others and to stimulate them to higher things can never be forgotten." Each year, on the anniversary of his birthday, he receives many letters of good wishes from his former pupils, some of whom are grown old in years, but retain their youthful enthusiasm and affection for their teacher of long ago.

Mrs. S. W. Adriance is a patient at the Winchester Hospital, suffering from the fracture of a hip, due to a fall over an obstacle carelessly left in one of the local stores of that town.

Secretary, 9 Mt. Pleasant St., Winchester, Mass.