1885

Sam Hudson has spent a very pleasant season at his summer home at Hingham, Mass., coining to his Boston office several days a week. He recently contracted a bronchial cold, which has kept him at home for several weeks, but he is making good recovery and expects soon to be in his office as usual; later in the season he and Mrs. Hudson will close their Hingham home and come to Boston for the winter, as is their custom.

Frank. Whipple of Lynn, Mass., our vice-president, is very pleasantly and busily occupied in his official duties in connection with the Middlesex University of Waltham, of which he is a director and vice-president.

Billy Rockwood of Everett, Mass., and his wife spent a very long season at their summer home at Yarmouth, N. S., where heat breezes never blow and tornadoes are unknown.

Charlie Floyd and his wife divided their summer between their home in Boston and automobile visits to Falmouth, Mass., and to various places in New Hampshire. From all that he says, Charlie is enjoying himself very much, dividing his time between reading and playing bridge.

Henry Austin, our class treasurer, is one of the Secretary's stand-bys on correspondence and class news; he writes that he and his wife are just about starting for their winter home at St. Petersburg, Florida, where he expects to find our classmate, Arthur Whitcomb, who is his nearby neighbor during the winter. Henry writes that last summer he had the honor of attending, as a delegate, the General Council of Congregational-Christian Churches of the United States at its annual meeting held at Beloit, Wis. Henry has always rendered valuable services in church maintenance and support.

Al Briggs of Chelsea, Mass., finds himself quite busy with his public and private occupations; he is now chairman of the City Excise Board, of which he has been a member for many years; and he also has been busily engaged in remodeling his home in Chelsea, and a business and apartment block which he owns in his home town of Middleboro, Mass., and finds his time quite fully occupied.

The Secretary and his wife had their daughter, her husband, and their four children from Pittsburgh, Pa., as guests during the summer at their home in Beverly, Mass., and like dutiful grandparents, they renewed their youth with the children. Their older granddaughter, Lucia, is a student at Abbot Academy, Andover.

The sympathy of every member of our class goes out to our classmate, Dr. Ed Allen, in the loss of his wife, which occurred suddenly from heart attack on September 15 at their Whitinsville (Mass.) home; they were married in 1896. Mrs. Allen was the great-granddaughter of Paul Whitin, who founded the town of Whitinsville, where he built the first textile mill. Her funeral services were held from St. Paul's Cathedral, Boston, on September 19, and was largely attended. She had long been a member of that church and had been an ardent worker in its numerous activities. She was also deeply interested in the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the American Red Cross, and was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Besides her husband, she is survived by their son, Nathaniel D. W. Allen.

The Secretary would remind his classmates that he is anxiously awaiting news items from each one of them.

Secretary, Kimball Bldg., Tremont St., Boston