1885*

Charlie Floyd recently made a pleasant call on the Secretary and while he said he had no news to report, as his life runs along in a very even, quiet tenor, he did confess that fifty years ago, during the period he was employed in the Pension Office here in Boston, before he was transferred to Washington, he had ridden quite a "hobby" in the gathering of American postage stamps and had a valuable collection of a thousand or more specimens; having lost interest in that hobby he only recently came across the collection, which he promptly turned over to a niece, to her great delight, as she is now a stamp collector.

Lorrain Weeks writes from his Long Island, N. Y. home that he is "in statu quo" which translated is that he takes his daily walk of two miles each morning, reads during the afternoon and studies astronomy and the skies at night. He wishes to send, through these notes, cordial greetings to each member of our class and to Frank McCutcheon '76, under whom he prepared for college, and to the following friends of his college days, Rev. Sidney L. Gulick '83, Sidney E. Junkins '87 and Ned Dearborn '91, the latter being a schoolmate of his brother Albert.

Henry Austin, faithful as ever, writes that the main topic of conversation at St. Petersburg, Florida, outside of the war news, is how and when the Florida winter tourists with automobiles will be able to get home. The Governor of that State assures the visitors that there will be no difficulty as he has the word of Secretary I ekes to that effect—but alas! who believes in Ickes, either his ability or his word. Henry hopes to start his escape homeward by automobile early in May. His proficiency as a "bowler on the green" is wellknown but through modesty he neglected to inform the Secretary of his recent and perhaps most signal victory, when, as a veteran member of the St. Petersburg Lawn Bowling Club, he and his partner won a very close contest of 18-17, in the club doubles against two of the members of the club, crack players from Ontario. This interesting item comes to the secretary through our mutual friend, Albert L. Partridge, Esq. of Boston, who is himself an ardent lover of that sport.

The April issue of the MAGAZINE was particularly interesting with its extensive report and analysis of our last year's Alumni Fund Campaign and the cordial thanks of our class are extended to John Brooks who did such excellent work as our Class Agent in securing contributions from every member of the class and very substantially exceeded the quota of the previous year.

Secretary, Kimball Bldg., 18 Tremont St. Boston, Mass. Class Agent, 10 Lawrence Avenue, Potsdam, N. Y.