Class of 1899
Luther Oakes and George G. Clark held a private reunion carnival week at Hanover in February.
Ray Pearl has accepted an appointment as the Heath-Clark lecturer for 1937 at the University of London. This lectureship is in the "History and Progress of Preventive Medicine and Tropical Hygiene." Ray has to write a book on his subject matter.
The Kendalls, Staleys, and Pearls had a '99 reunion in Washington last month with Mot Sargeant's boy, Howland, present to keep the oldsters in line.
Bob Johnston writes Joe Gannon that he is getting ready to take his annual hike with the Big Circus. Bob is still vice president of the Circus Fans Association.
Mot and Mrs. Sargeant's daughter, Miriam, was married Nov. 28, 1936, to Mr. Kenneth Packard in Pilgrim church, New Bedford, Mass.
Warren Kendall, the great American traveler, writes from the North Coast Limited on March 29, while East bound from a trip to the Pacific Coast. The letter was posted at Fargo, N. D. In part he says:
"I called on A. H. Brown while in San Francisco, and found that he had left the Graham Paige Auto Cos. about five weeks previous to my visit. Arthur has been in ill health for some time, and I didn't stay in San Francisco long enough to look him up. Neither did I see Mary Jones Foss, Walter's widow, although I know she is living in San Francisco. Roger Staley, Frank's boy, is vacationing in Wyoming, at Casper. He is in government service attached to HOLC. Another of Frank's boys, Jerome, is with the Matson Line, Hawaii and South Sea service. He is a staunch supporter of California as a place to live and finds it too far away to make frequent trips to see his parents. He expects to drive to Washington and return with a boy friend the coming September.
"Alice Ash, John's daughter, is very much interested in portrait photography and has been connected with large studios. She is now with one in Oakland, Calif. She had dinner with Mrs. Kendall and myself and is a very attractive girl. I saw John Ash in person, the four-time president of the Oregon State Concrete Products Association. He was in Portland, Oregon, last Wednesday and we had several hours together. His organization meets about once a month. John looks fine and is apparently prosperous. I have a date to return to his territory for a fishing trip within a few months. He told me he would have brought his family except that: (a) Mrs. Ash has just recovered from the flu; (b) Martha has it; (c) John Jr. is in college; (d) Mabel is running his business in his absence; (e) Homer is tied up with his farm work; and (f) Ruth has returned to Juneau, where she has established a shoppe of her own since her husband died there over a year ago.
"This has been a hurried trip with meetings arranged in such manner as to absorb my time. Stopped at Kansas City, San Francisco, and Portland."
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Satterlee Hurlbut of Cambridge on March 31, a son: Robert Satterlee Hurlbut Jr. Mrs. Hurlbut is the former Sally Drew, Pitt and Mabel Drew's daughter.
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