Class of 1877
We extend our sympathy to Ball, who reports the death of his wife on the 17th of last October. They had been married 55 years, and had lived in the same house for 53 years. When Ball wrote, March 2, he had just returned from Camden, S. C., where he had been for six weeks.
George H. Child, Harper's Ferry, W. Va. This is a new address, or rather the return to an old one. He left Charleston the first of September to make Harper's Ferry his permanent home. He says: "I have no employment, and my time is occupied withsleeping, eating, and reading."
Ray T. Gile writes: "I have been verywell the past year. Have done more surveying than some years during the last tenyears. I shall try to be with you next Juneat the 60th reunion, and I hope Mrs. Gilewill be able to go with me, although shehas passed her 88th birthday."
And Davis hopes to be able to make the 60th, as he did the 55th. He reports fairly good health.
C. S. Wilcox left us in sophomore year and later entered Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, where he graduated in 1879. He writes from St. Petersburg, Fla., where he is passing the winter. He does not expect to be with us at the 60th, where he would be very welcome, but wishes to be remembered to his old classmates.
A letter has come from Murdock's daughter, Mrs. Hariph M. Smith, who is keeping house for her father in Spencer, Mass. A serious eye trouble has made it necessary for Murdock to lose his right eye. His health otherwise is fair, but he does not give much hope of being able to meet with us in June. Mrs. Smith gives some particulars of Murdock's family. The oldest son, Arthur, lives in Montclair, N. J. His oldest son, Edward Arthur 2d, after three years at Wesleyan, took a final year at the New York University School of Finance, and is with the Continental Fire Insurance Co. of New York. A daughter, Ruth, will enter New Jersey State College in September and will major in music. The other sons, Leon and Philip (Dartmouth '15) are in business in Chicago and have no children.
Secretary, Chelsea, Vt.
