Class of 1898
Within the last three weeks the case of our classmate Russell has been brought to the attention of a number of the class, and a splendid response has been the result. Such a spirit of fellowship speaks well for the class of '98. From far-off Santa Ana, Calif., came a contribution from our classmate Guy L. Gary. How my blood used to thrill as I saw Guy round the last quarter in the bicycle race and leave the pack behind!
Joe Barlett and Buck Chandler had time for just a word with Sherman Moulton last summer as they motored through Burlington, Vt. Sherman later did Joe the honor of sitting for the day in a Boston court room listening to a jury trial in which Joe had a leading role.
Frederick Vucassovich Bennis is spending the winter with his sister at the Hotel Concord in St. Petersburg, Fla. I hope he and Dick Marcy and Mrs. Marcy may meet. Bob Marden is spending a month at Palm Court Hotel and Apartments, Miami Beach, Fla.
Joe Carney expects to be in Chicago during January and hopes to have a good call on Fred Pope. Ich Crane has been having a tough time with the grippe, but is once more on his feet.
George L. Farley was a prominent official at the recent Poultry Show held in Boston, which is one of the great shows of this country.
It is amazing to me how our President, Harry Goodall, turns out so much highgrade work with apparently so little wear and tear. Whenever I call there is always someone waiting to see him or someone with him. In spite of that, he takes a keen personal interest in everyone in the class of '98.
Everard W. Snow continues to be one of the most popular professors in Burdett's Business College, and on Sundays has a thriving Congregational church in South Natick.
Chester F. Williams has the same facile pen that he used to have when he was in college. A letter sent to me that I forwarded to President Goodall read in part as follows:—"Harry writes that 'when alawyer and a book agent get in conflict theservices of a physician are usually required.Sometimes a surgeon has to be called. Inthis instance I think the services of aphysician are needed.' Bill then retorts bywriting, 'Ordinarily when a lawyer and aphysician get in conflict the services of anundertaker are required.'"
I expect when Bob Marden gets back from the Sunny Southland he will have stored up enough energy in that emaciated frame of his to do some yeoman work on our 35th Reunion to be held in June. We want everyone present there and voting. It is to be the best reunion ever, and, if you don't believe it, ask the committee, Bob Marden, Ev Snow, and Ich Crane.
Miss Mary Greene, a friend of our late dear classmate Ernest French and his wife, tells me that the two boys are coming along well. The elder, Reginald French, is married, he has an A.B.,A.M.,andPh.D. and is teaching at Williams College. Everard H. French, named for our classmate Everard Snow, is married, has two children, and lives in Woodstock, Vt.
Professor Fletcher Harper Swift of the School of Education, University of California, at Berkeley, announces the receipt of contributions from the national kindergarten sorority, Delta Phi Upsilon, and from the Southern Section of the California Kindergarten Primary Association, to be used in correcting the error in the date of birth on the monument on the grave of Emma Marwedel, in the Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif. A bronze tablet will also be added to the monument, giving the names of Miss Marwedel's parents, her birthplace, and certain other heretofore unknown facts presented by Professor Swift in his recently published monograph. Miss Marwedel is best known as the founder of the first kindergarten training school on the Pacific Coast and as the teacher of Kate Douglas Wiggin. *
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