1899

Mrs. Luther S. Oakes broke into front page print in Western papers on Feb. 26th, when she christened with champagne, a Naval Auxiliary Ship for the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co., at its Evansville, Indiana Shipyard. Mrs. Dexter Ayers Clarke, nee Betty Oakes, acted as maid of honor for the sponsor and held the bouquets.

After a winter in San Antonio, reveling in sunshine, the "Bones" Woodwards have gone back to Seattle. They are thinking of giving up their town house and making Ingleside, their place on Lake Washington, an all year round home. There is a new grandson in the family, born to Robert R. and Virginia Langdon Sullivan Woodward, at Hartford, April 13 th.

So far as we know, Jim Richardson is the first member of the class to gather in a degree of Doctor of Law. It was conferred by Dr. J. H. Thomas, Pres. of Norwich University, at its Commencement in March, "for leadership in governmental affairs in New Hampshire."

Guy E. Corey, member of the New Hampshire Legislature from Portsmouth, is one of those advocating making the salute to the National Flag compulsory.

Hawley Chase now of Newport, N. H., got into the debate aroused by The NewYork Times, over the ignorance of the American Youth upon American History, through a long letter to the ManchesterUnion. Hawley is still tops in forensics.

John Gage Greenwood, second son of "Bill" and Mrs. A. H. Greenwood, whose first wife died, was married to Margaret Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Davis McClintock Jr., in Monterey, Mexico, on April 10 th.

The fight in the New Hampshire Legislature over the advisability of closing the Plymouth Teachers College, under the guise of wartime economy, ended in the defeat of the bill in the Senate, where the bill originated. It insures the continuance of the fine educational leadership of Ernest M. Silver, president of the institution, for many years to come, we hope.

In 1918 there was quite a bunch of '99 war workers in Washington, pivoting on the Food Administration and the Railroad Administration. Warren Kendall, Walter Eastman, in the American Railway Assoc., and Frank Staley, now of the Post Office Dept., are again there in the thick of war conditions, and along with them in Washington are the following members of the younger generation: Laurence and Newel Crolius, Howland Sargeant, Phil Batchelder, who married Virginia Rogers, Harold J. Minton, husband to Helen Sewall. With the foregoing for a nucleus, a real '99 Round-Up was set for the last of May.

Secretary, Community Trust Bldg., York Village, Me. Class Agent, 659 Allen Street, Syracuse, N. Y.