1876*

During four years and more following the Sixtieth reunion the class of '76 enjoyed a period of special serenity. Late in the year 1940 changes began to multiply. Three members of the class, partly as the result of sickness and accidental injury, and perhaps from other causes, became enfeebled, and so continued. Two members

who had been specially active, each the owner of a house he had long occupied as a home,—so long indeed classmates could with difficulty recall when they had lived elsewhere;—removing from the longtime occupancy, found locations where they were relieved of many cares and burdens. One of them began a recent postcard to the Secretary as follows: "In Paradise, but still keep an address on earth at 38 High Street." At this time practically all of the nine surviving- graduates had retired from occupational activity.

When the date of the Sixty-fifth arrived, largely from the fact that several classmates still in frail health were of those who had been in the habit of attending reunions,—classmates resident in New England,— only one member, the Class Secretary, was able to reach Hanover. Mrs. Kenerson Anderson of the larger '76 group, with her a friend, a Miss Brown, motoring from Litchfield, Maine, joined the Secretary at Hanover, June 13. Saturday evening, June 14, the three dined together in the Inn dining room and so celebrated the Sixty-fifth. Five years earlier, eight members of '76 were in Hanover, and more than a dozen members of the larger group had dinner together in the Inn dining room.

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