1897

Rowe tells me that Hilton lost his wife December 8 th.

Drew, soon after his return home from four months in hospitals, suffered the loss of his wife on February 10th. Frank has no children, but one of his sisters is living with him at present. He is gradually convalescing, being able to take walks now, and even do a little work.

The most spectacular thing in our class history is Johnson's recent re-encounter with the United States Army. Johnson has been superintendent of schools at Ayer, Mass. since a time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Ayer is a small village and when Camp Devens was filled with 30,000 men during World War I, the question of educating army children gratis became thorny. Now Fort Devens is full again and apparently a trade was made by which the United States agreed to contribute in three instalments of $2500 each. Frank announced that the second instalment had not arrived and that the schools would be closed to army children beginning Monday, March 2nd. The LieutenantColonel commanding at Fort Devens said that he would move on Johnson on the morning of March 2nd, with three army bus-loads of children. Here was an impasse indeed. Johnson held that he was right in his insistence on the $2500, but the Army had the might and the invincible tradition. Johnson rapidly scanned the provisions of the Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights and the pages of history. The Colonel inspired the children with military fervor. March 2nd came and the schools were not opened to the children. The situation was extremely serious. But the deadlock was broken when Johnson was informed that federal funds were on their way, and Johnson announced that the schools would be open on the 3rd.

Don't fail to make your plans to come to the reunion in May.

Fund Contributors for 1941 Contributors: 45 (82% of graduates). Total gifts: $1,180. MORTON C. TUTTLE, Class Agent.

1897 Adams, Benjamin F. Appleton, Fred S. Bacon, Arthur A. Balch, William H. Bolser, Charles E. Boyd, J. Merrill Brown, Jay D. Brown, Maurice F. Carr, Edward G. Chase, Henry M. Christophe, Herman Conlon, James H.1 Drew, Frank E. Foss, George E. Gibson, Hamilton Ham, William H. Heald, Franklin E.

Henderson, John R. Holt, Hermon, Jr. Johnson, Frank C. Keating, John F. Kelly, Walter F. Lull, Henry M. McCornack, Walter E.2 McFee, William D. Marshall, Benjamin T. Meserve, John S. Morrill, Albert H. Mosher, Loren A. Noyes, Frank H. Pringle, James N. Rowe, Brainard A. Ryan, Joseph F. Sanborn, Byron

Sibley, J. Otis Smith, Erdix T. Smith, Seidell C.3 Temple, Winfield Tent, George E. Thome, John T.4 Thyng, Herbert M. Tracy, Charles A. Tuttle, Morton C. Ward, Roy J.

Watson, Albert P. Memorial gift fromAirs. Conlon.2Memorial gift fromMrs. McCornack.sMemorial gift fromMrs. Smith.*Memorial gift fromMrs. Thome.

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