CLASS OF 1899
Tim Lynch had to go without a sabbatical this past year, but he managed to travel a little at that. He and "Detta" have moved into the next house, at 25 St. Alban St., Dorchester. Six rooms on the first floor, heated, with garage underneath. All Tim has to do now is to get in his car and roll out down hill to school.
Ray Pearl sailed for Europe May 13 to attend the annual executive committee meeting of the organization with the longest name in Europe or Asia: The International Union for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems. Did we get all the words in, Ray?
Herbert Watson continues to pepper the landscape with huge paper mills. He sixty miles down the coast beyond Halifax and gave Nova Scotia her first edifice of the kind. Now he's back in Bucksport, Me., putting one up for the Cushnoc Fibre Company.
Among the winter visitors to hospitals was Lute Oakes. But his recovery was complete enough so it will almost surprise him to read about it here.
Herbert Rogers dropped in at the old drugstore where he used to work summers in York Harbor for Ralph Hawkes's father. Ralph's in charge just now, while his duties as district attorney in York county are less urgent.
Herb's youngest daughter, Barbara, graduated in June from the Atherton Hall Secretarial School in Boston. "Barb" delivered a good essay on a genuine '99 subject, "Friendship."
Arthur Norton writes from Texas that he has "graduated another Longhorn." The commencement program that "Doc" sent seems to show that the Brackenridge High School thought rather well of Elizabeth, for she is listed both as a member of the Sigma Epsilon Society and of the National Honor Society. After a summer course in shorthand and typewriting, Elizabeth will take up a four-year course in the Florida State College for Women for a B.S. in physical education. Doc's children, however, don't have to go to school for a degree in that subject. He sent on a picture showing four of them engaged in a rousing snowball fight during one of the rare Texas snowstorms last winter.
A change of address for Willis Hodgkins: North Harvard Boulevard, Hollywood, Calif. More news expected soon.
Ernest Silver has his hands and school full with the summer courses at his Plymouth, N. H., Normal School.
Guy Speare is giving up his work in American history in order to give his full time to the Normal School in the way of research. His investigation will be on the subjects of methods and curriculum.
Albert Tootell has been teaching in Madison, S. D. This summer he will be working out some new problems at the University of Minnesota. Too bad Dan Ford isn't there any longer.
Arrangements were made some time ago to ship around to different '99 centers the moving picture reels taken last year at the Thirtieth. So keep a sharp lookout, you people who couldn't get to Hanover in 1929.
One of the first men to get a look at the celebration thus is Bill Nye. Mail for Bill, by the way, should now be sent to Spencerport, N. Y. He has sold out his insurance business in the city, and carries insurance instead on sixteen full-blooded Guernsey cows. Rochester gives him a market for his Grade A milk and for the eggs which his 1000 hens lay. Ten acres of potatoes, eight of cabbage, besides nobody knows how many of corn, oats, and wheat give him plenty to do. Bill's happy. He'll be still happier if some of the fellows run out and see him this summer.
Secretary, 41 West Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Md
