Class of 1888

Annie Laurie, wife of Warren F. Gregory, died August 25. She was born at Hartford, Ct., a daughter of the late Charles Laurie, senior partner in the firm of E. Fleming & Co., Boston bookbinders. In November, 1898, she was married to Warren F. Gregory, treasurer and manager of Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard, Boston publishers. For many years she was active as a member of the Lucy Hull chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and she was a member of the First Baptist church of Newton. She is survived by her husband, her mother, and a daughter, Mrs. Courtney F. Bird of 276 Highland Ave., West Newton.

Charles F. Brock, who for three years and a half, from the fall of 1937 to the spring of 1931, was unable to work at all on account of critical illness, has so far recovered that he has resumed his old position as counsel for the Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles, Calif. In a letter to the Secretary of his class he announces that he is again able to resume his old week-end recreation of champion fisherman on the end of the pier at Balboa Beach. His address is Title Insurance Building, Los Angeles.

The marriage of Miss Mildred E. Blake, daughter of the late Rev. Elmer T. Blake, to Otho F. Humphreys Jr. of Boston, took place October 7 in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where the ceremony was performed by the bridegroom's father, Rev. Otho F. Humphreys. The bridegroom is a graduate of Williams College, 1922, and was at one time a student at Oxford University, England.

Ann, daughter of John Lew Clark, graduated from the Wheelock Kindergarten School of Boston in June, and Robert, his son, graduated from Dartmouth. His oldest daughter is in China, where she has worked as a missionary during the past nine years.

Benjamin B. Gillette, who for months has been confined to his house with arthritis, reports, to the joy of his friends, that his health has improved to such a degree that he has been able to resume, at least temporarily, his position as church organist.

F. L. Pattee spent the summer as instructor in the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury. In May he delivered a course of lectures at the Pennsylvania State College on "Literary America in the 1790's." He has signed up for another year at Rollins College, where he teaches a class in American literature.

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on Truman O. Harlow in February by Webster University.

The extensive and richly stocked flower garden at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Williams, Milford, Mass., has been a source of pleasure to many people during the past summer.

Secretary, PROF. Coronado Beach, Fla.