1878*

Harlow was reported in the November issue to have been in attendance at Plymouth, Mass., upon a meeting of the Descendants of William Harlow (1624-1691) of that town. It now appears that he was honored with the vice presidency of that historic clan, and so he is enabled to hand on an authenticated pedigree to his expanding posterity. What other member of '78 can compare? Harlow has other unique honors, as will appear below.

He announces himself as housekeeper of a family of four, the other three of which (daughter, son, and daughter-inlaw) go to their daily tasks outside the home. Very appropriately he includes Good Housekeeping among the periodicals he reads regularly. Others are Cleveland Plain Dealer, Saturday Evening Post, Readers Digest, Geographic Magazine, Christian Herald, and Indian Work (organ of the Indian Bureau); a list that would seem to keep him up with affairs domestic, local, national, foreign, religious, and aboriginal. And in spite of being, as he says, a good deal of a shut-in, since he finds it hard to stand erect, so does not walk much, he is perhaps the only mem- ber of the class who regularly attends both Church and Sunday School. Hence another honor publicly bestowed, which if unique to us is apparently not so in the highly civilized community in which Harlow dwells, as he was only one of three octo- genarian attendants of the same Sunday School each to be led to the platform and introduced by a child, given a bouton- niere, and subjected to snapshots together and singly. Surely each of us should have a copy Parkhurst badges himself as "a professional loafer," and attends all the football games. He and Mrs. Parkhurst ob- served their 59th wedding anniversary No- vember 18, and were wondering whether they would be permitted to round out the 60 years, when a neighbor galvanized them by announcing a 70th, making them feel like a pair of kids, challenging them to set a new goal. So they will soon be off on another decade. We will all hope the stalwart pair will round that new buoy under full sail. We can't all hope to see the finish, but let's all be on hand to see the start The Parkhursts are not alone in approaching their 60th. The Fields ob- serve their 59th in April The Tarbells will observe their 56th in May The Parkinsons will observe (but not cele- brate) their 58 th in November Sully is surprised to find himself "very well in- deed," walking a mile or so in the park every morning and another in the after- noon, and quite active meanwhile.

Secretary, Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass.

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