1897

"Jerry" Simpson unmarried—still beautiful —works on construction jobs. Was sick awhile back and the nurse in the hospital when asked for his condition reported very favorably, and added, "I like him very much." This is the kind of report you would expect to get of Jerry. Some of the classmates will remember how well Jerry and Kid Folsom and I sang the old song, "I Have Roamed this Wide World Over from Barrington to Dover, etc."—the rest of it is not singable. I hope Jerry's voice is in good tune during Commencement.

Gov. Tent retired more or less to the beautiful climate of Cape Cod. Has more grandchildren than any other classmate, as far as I know, except John Meserve. Tent is a specialist in entertaining at Commencements, and this is a challenge to him to provide proper refreshments of a kind, and see that they are properly mixed to suit a discriminating group of class- mates. "Winnie" Temple worries your class secretary because I think he belongs to too many, orders of Masons all back to King Solo- mon at least—maybe further back. He has been Mayor and is Judge—being Judge worries class- mate Tuttle. In driving through Marlboro he states that he always drives in low gear because of the fear of difficulty with classmate Temple. Temple now is a Republican, and that is going some. We all recall his carrying the banner for William Jennings Bryan with no followers in the procession.

Charles Tracy—Tracy is one of those retiring fellows that soon goes back to work. It has not come to my attention that anybody else except Tracy has built a building with his own money for a school. Tracy and Kimball Union Academy are synonymous names. College honors and college degrees fall naturally in his life because of his accomplishments.

Herby Thyng now is living in Barnstead, N. H. Herby's son in the war was one of the great characters of daring. All kinds of honors have been awarded to him for carrying his plane through the hell of war and safely, after contact with his enemy at 50 yards. At this time Herby wrote that he was proud of his son but could not help being a little concerned about his safety. Herby's grandson, James Thyng, together with his Mother Mary, are the names painted on the fighter plane.

John Meserve writes about his eleven grandchildren scattered far and wide in the States of California, Michigan, Ohio and New York. John was married in Los Angeles in 1943. During this last fall I sold the timber to be cut on land that used to belong to the Meserve family in Barrington. In going over this tract with the purchaser I walked over the whole land which John's family owned and tried to include this in the sale, but the deeds were so well written with so many Meserve's that this wasn't possible and I had to be content with selling my own land only. John had, and probably still has, more pictures of our class at the time of college than anyone else. I have begged, pled and threatened to have him dig these out of the old trash heap and bring them to Hanover. I hope he will. I hope also he will bring his eleven grandchildren to the Reunion and more, if there are more, by June.

Secretary, 886 Main St., Bridgeport 3, Conn.

Treasurer, 53 State St., Boston 9, Mass.

ANNUAL BOSTON DINNER, FEB. 26 COPLEY PLAZA HOTEL, 6:15 P. M.