1882

Your secretary has just received notice from the secretary-treasurer of the annual meeting of the Boston section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, from which the following is quoted:—

"Its officers and Executive Committee deem this a most fitting occasion to invite, as our guests to sit at the head table, those who have been members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers for forty years or more."

This is another reminder that age brings what may be reckoned honors as well as burdens; weight of years which we of 'B2 are beginning to feel. Our six members are in reasonable health so far as heard from, though the writer is kept for the time being rather quiet as the aftermath of an operation. The average age of the six is nearly 86 years; Jack Lawrence is the eldest, being well on toward 89; while Webster still engaged in law practice is almost 83.

Lawrence in one of his poetic effusions lauds age in the following lines, the last of five stanzas:

Most, whom I hear, speak words of cheer, Of Hope and Expectation; So why should anybody fear And Fret their life's duration.

Secretary and Treasurer, 14 Marion Terrace, Brookline 46, Mass.