Class of 1876

In his latest letter Stimson mentions a complete retirement from law practice. With Mrs. Stimson he is passing the days serenely at his home, La Jolla, Calif.

Hill writing from Pasadena, Calif., mentions having had experience of a sand storm; indeed, he gives a vivid description of the phenomenon, and considers that he has now had a taste of all the vagaries of California climate except earthquake.

Susan Elizabeth Mikkelsen, born January 24, 1933, at Glendora, Calif., gladdens two great-grandmothers, Mrs. William H. Gardiner and Mrs. James F. McElroy.

What do they talk about, Hardison and Piper, when they lunch together at the Statler Hotel, Boston, on a Wednesday? With the exception of McCutcheon, they are the only survivors at present in the Boston district. Well, a little of old times, of fitting-school days, of college, of the day's doings, of individual happenings; but surely of classmates, and never so intimately and sympathetically as now, each seen in present state or through the mist of years, a group so reduced in number that the whole might be gone over in the hour; eighty years of age in the average, each member so individual, each with the aura which has come to be his after so many years, so definitely his and not another's,— a theme so familiar yet so fresh, and so enthralling.

Secretary, 411 High St., West Medford, Mass.