1887

The class suffered a double loss in January, die death of Doctor Eastman on January 9 and of Judge Hill at Portland, Me., on the twelfth. Hill was at his office attending business the previous day, but suffered a heart attack at night and failed to rally. He had not been well for several years. Eastman died at Detroit of bronchial pneumonia. He has led a retired life there with his son for several years. Junkins' son. Page '14, resides in Detroit and promptly notified his father, so that flowers were sent in name of the class. As the most widely known member of '87, his passing was the occasion of much press comment. A widely spread error may be corrected here; Eastman was not of full Indian blood, as his maternal grandfather was white, Col. Seth Eastman, U. S. Army. . . . . After waiting for the temperature to drop to 350, the Johnsons left Bath, N. H., for a visit at Bronxville, N. Y.

. . . . Mrs. Emerson writes, Jan. ,23: "As for my family, we are all pretty well now, but last year was a pretty hard one for my younger daughter Florence, who was ill for an entire year with a streptococcic infection. I suppose it is natural that there should be some deaths [in the class], and natural too to expect more. But to me you are all ageless, and even though some pass from our sight they are not really gone, just in 'another room'—that is all." . . . .

Brackett writes: "Am recovering slowly but satisfactorily from an attack of myocarditis last July. Am living on Balboa Island, having sold out at Claremont but retaining an emeritus connection with the college. Frederick [his son] and family are in Washington, D. C., in the U. S. Bureau of Health, and Parkhurst and family in Technicolor in Hollywood, are carrying on successfully their respective lines of work." .... There was an echo from the 'roaring eighties' at Tampa, Fla., Jan. 13, when Austin '85, Kelly '86, Gage, Corwin, and Rice '87 dined as guests of Kelly. Again on Feb. 2 Gage brought Conn and his son, Dwight 'l4, from St. Pete and fraternized with Corwin and Rice. Conn desired to see the Spanish section, Ybor City, which he visited some 35 years ago. A branch of Conn's family migrated from Hillsborough county, N. H., to Tampa in early days and gave the county here and the river the name Hillsborough

Mrs. Wallace has closed her home in Canaan, N. H., and has placed on die market die fine 14-room house Bun built years ago Rev. Fred E. Winn, the present poet of the class, has become a permanent resident of Hanover, giving with Dr. Sydney Edwin Junkins two representatives of the class there. Winn occupies himself as a reporter of college matters for the Hanover Gazette— including an appreciative article about Professor J. F. Colby's 88th birthday anniversary. He also acts as a sort of secretary for Mr. Colby, writing many of his letters. The Gazette of Jan. 26 carried a two-column account of Eastman written by Winn Stanley Johnson, as editor-in-chief of the Golden Jubilee book soon to be issued by the class, in honor of its fiftieth anniversary, gave the manuscript of the work to the committee of publication several months ago. The committee is giving the matter of the printing very careful consideration, that it may be worthy of its importance in the annals of the college.

Secretary, West Southport, Me.