1885

The Censorship, along the Home Front, appears to have "cracked down" so tightly that only letters from Henry Austin and Lorain Weeks "got by" for this issue. Henry reports slowness of Southern mails and the probable omission of the Dartmouth Dinner of the Florida Alumni this year; and Lorrain has fully convinced himself that the planet Mars is inhabited and has a well-established and extensive canal system in operation.

Also a letter from Mrs. F. W. Plapp (4140 North Keeler Ave., Chicago), widow of our late beloved classmate, "Fuddy," saying that her son Elmer is a major in the Ordnance Dept., F. W. Jr. is in defense work in Columbus, Ohio, and her daughters Doris and Marie are still highschool teachers in Chicago. It was a pleasure to hear from her.

The secretary has received "under cover rumors that Chase, our only manufacturer, is too busy making up his annual Federal tax returns to write any class letter this month; also that Will Cragin, in collaboration with Harry Parker, is preparing a review of the doings of the members of our class, since graduation, in the nature of a "Chronicles" which should rival Sam Hudson's famous production of our Class Day exercises, and that Frank Whipple is diligently at work upon a history of the development of the Junior High School system in Massachusetts. This should prove of great value, for he spent many years in that particular work.

Mrs. Bayley and the Secretary gladly acknowledge the receipt of Christmas greeting cards from various members of the class.

Secretary, Kimball Building, Rooms 910-912 18 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Warner, N. H.