Class of 1899
News items from Washington, D. C., these days include a visit by Lute Oakes on the Staleys, for half a day and dinner. Then at the " '99 Embassy" there was a dinner that brought together Percy and Mrs. Drake, Ray and Mrs. Pearl, Frank and Mrs. Staley, and the Secretary with his wife and family. Percy was on his vacation at the time, helping his wife visit hex home city, Baltimore.
Ray Pearl's daughter Ruth, his assistant in laboratory work at Johns Hopkins, is the recipient of a prize scholarship this year, and is studying in Hamburg, Germany.
While Charlie Donahue was holding court in Greenfield, Mass., recently, he had a call from Ralph and Mrs. Payne. Celery is now in the insurance business in that city. Donnie also, with Nelson Brown and Fred Walker, attended Justice Thayer's funeral in Worcester.
Jim Barney's boy Roger is now in the class of 1937 at Dartmouth.
Dr. Arthur W. Hopkins was president of the Old Home and Anniversary Committee which celebrated the reaching of the twocentury mark since the "Granting of the Town of Swanzey." The date of the celebration, August 17,*was also the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Denman Thompson. Hoppy, in extending a welcome to the hundreds who crowded the local town hall for the exercises, reviewed the history of the town.
Gus Heywood is back on the job lour days a week at the American Steel and Wire Works in Worcester. His present duties are particularly the indexing and throwing away old drawings of obsolete equipment.
Florence Eastman brought Caroline East from Chicago in September to enter Jackson College, Medford. Dick Beal, a nephew of K. Beal's, is also in the entering class at Tufts. George Beal, after two years at Dartmouth and a year of miscellaneous work, has registered as a junior at Boston University. Jerome Eastman, after graduating from Norwich University in June, has been conducting round-trip tours during the summer to Saginaw. Caroline Eastman, by the way, after Jerome's graduation visited Miriam Sargeant in New Bedford, Mass. Then, before Miriam returned to Oberlin, she in turn visited Caroline in La Grange. Together they "did" the Fair. "Dad" Walter Eastman capped the climax by spending one day with them in the Transportation Building.
On the night of July Fourth, Walter and his family were startled from their sleep by the unexpected descent upon the fair grounds of a party from Plymouth, N. H. George Clark, Morton Wheeler, Myron Clark, and Bill Dearborn were to make an eight-day inspection of the Chicago spectacle, and when that holiday night found every tourist camp full to the thresholds, the hospitable Eastman home just naturally took them in.
The Thirty-Fifth is on the way, and plans are shaping. It's the big objective in '34.
Secretary, 41 West Kirke St. Chevy Chase, Md.
