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A postal with the picture of Heald Homestead in Scarborough, Me., came to hand the first of the year from Heald. On it he told of his active participation in the Red Cross and other civic organizations and tendered his appreciation of the efforts of the class officers in making the 50th reunion possible and successful.

Under date of December 21, 1941, Rev. Evarts W. Pond writes he is located at 712 sth Ave. North, St. Petersburg, Fla., and that he has his eyes back all O. K.

On Sunday, December 7, 1941 on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, members of the Caledonia County Bar Association gave a delightful surprise party to David Sloan Conant at his home in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Messages were received from many including Chief Justice Sherman Moulton of Burlington, Judge Harland B. Howe and Ex-Gov. Stanley Wilson. The following poem from an absent friend, Fred E. Gleason, was sent:

He who has weathered the storm and strife Of all the courts, and the links, and life, For a time which goes back to the carpet bag And the reconstruction, and all its swag; He's seen and he's done a lot that few Of the rest of us did or ever can do. He's ripe in experience, tested and tried; And he's been on the ebb and the flow of the tide And he's always been where the fight was thickest And usually knocked out even the slickest Of adversaries.—A redoubtable foe, A good lawyer, a man we're all glad to know. So here's to you Dave; though I cannot be Where they're doing you honor on this jubilee I join with the others in wishing you well. May you fight all the rest of the rounds till the bell.

Secretary, 80 Federal St., Boston, Mass.