Class of 1889
On March 10—one day too late for this item to appear in the April issue—Warden gave the Secretary a thrill of joy by telephoning that he was in town and had a couple of hours before taking the train for Chicago and Montana. He had been in Washington to attend a meeting of the B. of D. of the U. S. C. of C. and in New York, and had come to Boston to visit his youngest daughter, who after three years in the University of Montana, is spending this year in very hard work at the Katharine Gibbs School in further preparation for a journalist's career. We had a pleasant chat and then saw our much-traveled classmate on board his train for a three days' run to Great Falls, but with the distinct understanding that he will be in Hanover for our reunion on June 15, and this, too, in spite of the fact that he must come to Washington and New York again in April.
It has been suggested that at the reunion one of the topics for informal discussion shall be, "Which shall we consider the greatest traveler, John Barrett, who covers the chief cities of Central and South America by airplane, Ralph Bartlett, who makes an annual pilgrimage to Russia, and last summer traveled over 5,000 miles in the U. S. R., or Warden, who commutes regularly five or six times a year between the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic Seaboard, besides occasional side trips to San Francisco and Alberta?"
On April 2 the Boston Alumni Association arranged a "Pretzel Party and Smoker" at the Copley Plaza Hotel. Undoubtedly this will be described, by the proper officer of the Association, elsewhere in this issue of the MAGAZINE. TWO loyal members of '89, Ralph Bartlett and the Secretary, attended this first of a new series of entertainments. They received a somewhat embarrassing shock by discovering that they were the oldest alumni present, the next oldest being a '92 man. And yet they do not consider themselves old, particularly as, three days before one of them had sent greetings to a brother alumnus of the class of '64, who was celebrating his 94th birthday.
Secretary, 87 Milk St., Boston
