Class of 1878

Since the death of Geo. E. Perley, Mrs. Perley has made her home with their only daughter, Grace, now Mrs. Raymond V. Hess. The family has been residing in Minneapolis, but at last accounts was to move in August to Worthington, Minn., where Mr. Hess with a partner has taken over Hotel Thompson and other properties.

Geo. R. Harlow has been spending the summer at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ralph Bevins, at Chatham, Mass., where he says he finds odds and ends to occupy him. At the annual meeting of the Cleveland Heights (Ohio) Presbyterian church, Harlow was elected emeritus member of the session, of which he had been an active member for the past ten years.

Harlow calls attention to an interesting article in the August Readers' Digest (condensed from The Rotarian) under caption "Consider the Heavens," in which "an 80-year-old minister in Florida" is numbered among the alert watchers of the sky on the night Peltier discovered his comet. The reference is undoubtedly to the same Rev. T. C. H. Bouton of St. Petersburg upon whom was recently conferred the Merit Award of the American Association of Variable Star Observers.

The diploma of award, which is quite an elaborate document, reads: "TheAmerican Association of Variable Star Observers presents its Second. Merit Award toRev. Tilton C. H. Bouton, for almost aquarter of a century an assiduous observerof variable stars. His zeal and his loyalty tothe Association have been an inspirationto his fellow Members.

(Signed) Harlow Shapley, Pres.W. J. Olcott, Sec'y."Harvard College Observatory,May 23, 1936."

The diploma was supplemented by several highly appreciative personal letters from officers of the Association.

Bouton makes his rather imposing observatory something of an educational power station. He welcomes visitors, especially teachers and their students, and enjoys introducing them by telescope and talk to wonders of the sky, or, as one astronomer puts it "winning recruits to an inspiringavocation."

He is a recognized authority on amateur astronomy, and is author of the leading article in Amateur Astronomy for April.

Bouton's summer locus is Hudson, N. H., where he has old friends and whence he radiates to several former parishes.

The trustees of Caverly Preventorium at Pittsford, Vt., have hung upon the walls of that highly useful institution an enlarged copy of the familiar group photograph representing the '7B winners in the athletic meet of May, 1877 (4th in the series of these memorable events). Caverly appears therein as winner of the running broad jump; hence its interest to the Preventorium and its juvenile inmates. Of the twelve athletes in that group, three survive: Hayt, winner of the wheelbarrow and the sack races, Parkhurst of the mile and 3-mile walks, and Vittum of the mile and 3-mile runs.

Secretary, 321 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass