1876*

Secretary, . 411 High St., West Medford, Mass.

Hardison in his ninetieth year has been reelected a director in a Massachusetts insurance company not as an honor, nor on account of his age, but by reason of his special efficiency on a committee which may be presumed one of the most difficult.

—that having to do with real estate recently acquired through default.

Mrs. William H. Gardiner, living in Seattle, widow of a former secretary of '76, sends a specially interesting letter with references to her son in South America engaged on a contract of his Minneapolis company, a granddaughter just arriving from a trip round the world, and a grandson in Tech., Cambridge, Mass.

Hardison will leave Florida for home about April 1, Hill is already back from Chattanooga, and Mrs. Anderson is meditating a departure from DeLand, Fla., for "Sheet Anchor," her summer home in Litchfield, Maine.

"Shorty" Goodhue is in mind at this time when contributions begin to arrive for the Alumni Fund. The Fund made a special appeal to Shorty, none the less that his building loan investments became worthless early in the depression. Most of his investments were of this sort. He was fortunate in being able to keep up some portion of his large practice almost to the last. One feels now more than ever before how thoroughly Shorty understood the two great essentials of friendship, sincerity and compassion.