Class Notes

1878*

August 1942 WILLIAM D. PARKINSON
Class Notes
1878*
August 1942 WILLIAM D. PARKINSON

Bouton, Hayt, Parkhurst, Parkinson, and Tarbell, have all recently reported themselves up to par, and a snapshot of Harlow in his chair makes him look sturdy as ever, but he confesses himself not quite solid on his feet. Sully is the only one unreported. .... Mrs. Small, who has been closely associated with the class, died suddenly, May 15, and was laid beside her husband at Hudson, Mass., the town where they first met Hayt hears of the death of Mrs. Whittelsey early this year, but: without particulars. A letter to her son asking for details brings no reply Hayt attended Alumni Dinner at San Francisco, oldest alumnus present as usual: approves sending out young professors like Professor Foley to grace such occasions; says it attracts the younger element, and makes the old stiffs wish they had had such a fellow for a professor in their day. In another connection he says the Japs of his vicinity are accepting concentration far better than a band of Americans would Mrs. Parkinson is now completely bed-ridden, and the Parkhurst couple is the only one of our original pairs still upstanding Tenney would be gratified at the recent appointment of Dr. Chan Wing-Tait to a Lectureship on Chinese Culture at Dartmouth. Tenney himself was once offered such a lectureship, or perhaps the Chair of Far Eastern Civilization, held since igsi by Professor Lattimore The Class Secretary was present at the annual Secretaries Meeting; thinks he holds the record for consecutive attendance; but Perry 'BO, substituted for him as the most ancient of those present in the picture of the group, printed in the June MAGAZINE.

Secretary, 321 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass