Class of 1899
The great event of the summer of 1933 from the point of view of all good Ninety- Niners was the annual tour of Tim Lynch's Troupe, this time to Norwich, Conn. The trip had an added sentiment in the fact of Prexy Tucker's boyhood in that town, his birthplace being Griswold in the same state.
Charlie Donahue and Tim and Detta Lynch left Boston that Friday afternoon in early August in time to reach Norwich for supper. The evening passed in disappointing quietness, with no other arrivals. But soon after Tim had retired, leaving Donnie to his favorite detective story, who should appear but Arthur Irving and his wife. In the morning Tim at the breakfast table was bemoaning his lack of a golfing competitor when—in walked the Irvings.
Thereupon the party broke up into two groups, golfers and cheerers. As both groups were nearing exhaustion on the eighteenth (or was it the thirty-sixth?) hole, reinforcements arrived. This time it was Bill Greenwood and his wife and Tom Whittier and his wife. After lunch Tim was compelled to face the formidable challenge of Tom on the links, with Mrs. Tom increasing the odds on Friend Husband by acting as caddy.
At nighttime Percy Drake and Joe Gannon and their wives, together with Warren Kendall made up a total of fourteen, so that the supper became forthwith a banquet. Cards made the natural sequel, orchard pitch and contract, until midnight, when the Secretary had to leave to get in touch with Montie Fuller at Torrington the next day.
Some of the spirit of the whole happy occasion is caught in the following sketch from another source:
"Traveling Tim Lynch, having in successive summers conducted flying squadrons of the class to visit outposts of '99civilization in Canada, in Maine, and inVermont, this year led a battalion intothe wilds of Connecticut. There were nocasualties; the '99 garrisons were foundwell equipped and disciplined and undaunted by the savage tribes of Yales,Trinities, and other aborigines surrounding them. . . . Old Dr. Ike Leavitt wasthere by intention and in spirit, althoughbodily absent, since he operated on thefaulty diagnosis that the clinic was to beheld at Norwich, Vermont."
The death of Cav at the end of the summer was a shock to all the multitude of friends, in spite of the fact that his condition was known to be serious. Funeral services were held in the Church of the Sacred Heart in Newton Center. Among '99 men present were Hale Dearborn, Herb Rogers, Alvah Sleeper, K. Beal, Tim Lynch, Charlie Donahue, George Clark, Ed Allen, and Nelson Brown. The burial service in St. John's Cemetery, Worcester, his native city, was attended by local classmates, Ed Skinner, Fred Walker, and Gus Heywood. A later issue of the MAGAZINE will print a fuller memorial.
Secretary, 41 West Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Md.
