1887

Your secretary has received several very interesting letters, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Dr. Bsackett and several others have expressed their acute sorrow for the death of Professor Cleaves. He was a constant, affectionate and loyal correspondent, and his bright comments will be sadly missed. One letter adjures this writer to a tight secrecy of a project, which, when completed, will knock us all cold, and raise the banners of 'B7s distinctions much higher in the skies. It is too bad the gentleman is so modest! All seem to be in excellent health and spirits. Hardy and "Jigger" both have sons and grandsons in the Armed Services. "Jigger's" boy is a colonel.

Our most interesting letter comes from classmate Ranlett, all the way from Spokane, Wash. It is such a long time since we have had any word from "Had" that you will all want to know, so we quote:

"My activities for the past year have been working daily with the Spokane Air Service Command, in civilian Civil Service status. This is a huge service air field, where general repairing and overhauling is now done, principally on the world-renowned flying fortresses. The field, comprising about twenty six hundred acres, about fifteen miles west of Spokane, also carries great stores of all kinds of Army supplies. About 10,000 people are employed, with a large percentage of girls and women. In view of the future expansion in the Pacific and Alaska, it will no doubt be a permanent establishment. Doubtless you have read of the aluminum and magnesium plants built here to take advantage of the greatest of all dams, Grand Coulee, ninety miles from here.

"Since my wife passed away two years ago, my unmarried daughter and I are still in the old home. My son lives in a suburb out ten miles. His family consists of a wife and two children. The son, a sixfooter, has been inducted, but not yet called for the Army. The daughter is engaged in clerical work. Sad to hear of our classmates dropping off, but we know it is inevitable at our time of life."

Please give my regards to the boys.

The secretary has recently been under the scrutiny of three physicians at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital at Hanover. It was believed for a time he would have to submit to a major operation. After being internally X-rayed for several hours, in a variety of postures, Dr. Bowler patted him on the back, and sent him home uncut. They reported that he possesses two lovely kidneys, a sound heart and lungs, normal blood pressure, and excellent alimentation. Dr. Bowler is the son-in-law of our well-remembered Dr. John Gile. The secretary also delivered an address before the Lions' Club at Woodsville—subject: "Ancestors and Pioneers."

The secretary's winter address will be —Clearwater, Fla. Home, 410J/2 Laura St.; P. O. Box 869.

Secretary and Treasurer Bath, N. H.