Class of 1894
Our high lights for this issue are two trips. The first is a "4-mile trip to the summit on snow shoes" which James Townsend was expected to execute March 1. We learn about this prospective trip from that excellent source of information about all things on the Pacific Ctoast—"Squeaks." Just which summit it is that James was supposed to reach we are not sure. The latest reports from that region, however, show that fhe depth of snow was one hundred inches. Jim's feat was to be a part of a "snow party at Norden (Calif.) near thesummit of the High Sierra, on Saturday andSunday, February 29 and March 1." Probably the High Sierra is the summit the former football husky surmounted.
The second trip is to South America. Phil Marden goes to Europe or to South America about this time every year. In an interview that the Secretary recently had with Kent Knowlton (who writes all the editorials for the Lowell Courier-Citizen when Phil is away, and some of them when he is there), Kent showed a surprising ignorance as to how long Phil was going to be gone. However, it can be safely asserted that he will be back for Commencement.
It will be evident from the above that the Secretary has been consorting with Kent Knowlton. Indeed he had the privilege of a meal with Kent and his happy family (wife and two daughters). Kent spends the week at Lowell going home Friday night. Amid the quiet of West Medway he can think out the deep thoughts that will appear on the editorial page during the following week.
The full notice of the death of Matt Jones' older son, Walter Leland, will doubtless be found under the class of 1923. It took place at LaGrange, Ill., March 8. Matt was able to reach him before the end. He was an executive in the Western Electric Company, had two children, and was giving every promise of being worthy of his ancestry. In a very special way the sympathy of the class goes out to Matt and his wife. The Boston Transcript of Feb. 22 carried the following despatch from Winter Park, Fla., under date of the 21st: "Mrs. MertieGraham Grover died last night in theFlorida Sanitarium from concussion andshock sustained when she was struck by anautomobile Monday night in front of herhome on Osceola Ave. The wife of Dr. Edwin Osgood Grover, professor of books atRollins College, Mrs. Grover had been aresident of Winter Park since the fall of1926, when Dr. Grover accepted his professorship. She was born Jan. 25, 1871, in St.Johnsbury, Vt., and was a graduate of St.Johnsbury Academy and Mt. Holyoke College. On obtaining her degree from, Mt.Holyoke, Mrs. Grover studied for threeyears in the Hartford Theological Seminary,where she was an honor student. She wasmarried to Dr. Grover June 4, 1900. She issurvived by three children: Frances Grover,now teaching in the Hindman SettlementSchool, Hindman, Ky.; Hester Grover, ateacher at St. Johnsbury Academy; andGraham Grover of Wi?iter Park."
The deep sympathy of us all instantly goes to our stricken classmate.
Secretary, 14 Beacon St., Boston
