1898

A good rousing '98 cheer for "Tute" Worthen who has been off his normal health for some time. With the coming of the spring time and the birds and flowers, may his old time zest for life all return.

A good letter from Nelson Blake, son of our faithful first secretary, tells of his mother's life in the old home at Gardner, Mass., and of the recent marriage of his sister, Priscilla, Syracuse University 1942.

On March 22, Governor Saltonstall submitted to the Council the appointment of Chester F. Williams to the judgeship of the Third District Court of Southern Worcester: Our Bill has been a special Justice in this Court for a number of years.

"Pete" Adams writes that he is as busy as ever and the two boys are away from home. Edmund the older is at San Marcos Field in Texas. John the younger will finish his preparatory school in June.

Fletcher Harper Swift writes that his old enemy arthritis has been in evidence again. He also states that he and Bob Peck had a delightful luncheon together and celebrated to the extent of one cocktail each. Whether it had anything to do with the gout attack he had the next week Fletcher says he does not know, but adds if it did it was worth it.

The announcement of the engagement of Miss Sarah Whitehead Perry to Edward Mastin Crane, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Crane of Brattleboro, Vermont, appeared recently.

Frank Hartigan writes: "It is also refreshing to lear,n of the attitude of all the '98 boys toward the coming 50th Reunion. Their optimism puts more pep into my old bones than all doctors and tonics could do."

Bill Witte and wife have spent two happy months at the Waldorf Astoria in New York this winter. They took in the theatre and opera many times.

Mr. and Mrs. Witte are our most traveled couple. They have been to Alaska and all over North America, Mexico and South America.

"Bill" is now working for the U. S. Treasury Department and recently helped to finish a sixteen million dollar bond campaign in Yonkers, N. Y. He is also an enthusiastic Rotarian.

The secretary recently had a brief visit with "Prexy" Rodgers on a street car; he wore his usual genial smile and said he was retiring this June from his educational work and going with Mrs. Rodgers to their Y'ork, Maine, home to live.

The Snows are kept busy with the work of their parish at Stratham, N. H. Fortunate is this community to have these two alert and sympathetic '98ers to direct its community church.

Secretary and Treasurer, 17 Fairbanks St., Brookline, Mass.