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Chester Flagg died on the evening o£ Palm Sunday, March 30, at the Mercy Hospital in San Diego, Calif., where he underwent a surgical operation on March 4. He entered the hospital for observation the last day of February. Prior to that time he had been in excellent health since his operation for the same cause about a year ago. During past months he had enjoyed many motor trips into the country about San Diego with his niece, Miss Martha Flagg Emerson, who had made her home with him since she accompanied him on his return from the East last autumn. They had been planning all winter to have Mrs. Edmund E. Day, a younger sister of Miss Emerson, come on from her home in Ithaca, N. Y., to visit them in March, and accompany them on a motor trip, starting the first week in April, through the southern states on their way to Marblehead, Mass., for the summer. In a six-page letter to your secretary, written four days after the operation was performed, he wrote in his usual cheerful mood and was still looking forward to leaving the hospital and being able to start on the long drive East on the date as planned. Mrs. Day arrived in San Diego before the death occurred. An obituary will appear in the June issue.
Mrs. David N. Blakely, her daughter Elizabeth and her son John follow with keen interest all news relating to members of our class. They are living quietly and happily in their home at 16 Beech Road, Brookline, Mass. Mrs. Blakely, at a recent chat with your secretary, was looking forward with a great deal of pleasure to receiving a visit in April from Miss Mary Fletcher of Hanover, N. H., daughter of the late Prof. Robert Fletcher, of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering.
Ferguson, Bard and Bartlett are planning to gather in Hanover for the weekend of June 13 to 15, time o£ Commencement, when our contemporaries—the classes of '87 and '92—will be holding Reunions. Reservations at the Hanover Inn have already been applied for. Recruits are wanted. For attendance, there will be no compulsory draftmerely an appeal for voluntary enlistment for classmates able and keen to go to Hanover for another get-together. Recruiting office, apply to class secretary.
Bard keeps active. He gave your secretary a surprise call late in March, and appeared to be in the best of health. It is always a pleasure to have a visit with him. He has the praiseworthy habit of calling upon classmates whenever within calling distance, and can truly be said to be "the visiting ambassador of the class of '89." From the good reports he gave about "Ferg," there would appear to be no let-up by our efficient class agent in his ceaseless activity upon important jobs in his highly successful professional career.
Dearborn and his daughter Mrs. Mills were fortunate in having plenty of warm clothing for the cold weather they encountered during their winter visit in Crescent City, in northern Florida. They enjoyed their stay in this pleasant town and made nice acquaintances among its citizens. Mrs. Mills left there by train the last of March to visit her brother Clinton H. Dearborn and his wife at their home in Hampton, Va., giving her father an opportunity to motor through parts of Florida with which he was not familiar before joining her in Hampton a few weeks later preparatory to motoring from there direct to their home in Littleton, N. H. Dearborn writes. "I don't really hanker to see the White Mountains before June, but we shall probably be home late in April, see snow and shiver."
Our Class Notes tor the April issue were sent in before your secretary had received the March number in which he first learned through reading Prof. George C. Wood's review of the book The Cap'n's Wife that its author, Albert Joseph George, is a graduate of Dartmouth (class of 1935). This authorship gives added Dartmouth flavor to a book dealing with Cape Cod folk and centered about the life of "Great-Aunt Di" (Didama Doane), an own cousin of our two classmates from Harwichport on the Cape, each bearing the Doane family name (one now deceased), who themselves were cousins.
Your secretary had the pleasure of accepting an invitation of the Alumni Fund Committee to attend the annual Class Agents Dinner for the Boston group held on the evening of March 20 at the Algonquin Club. Roscoe O.Elliott '2O presided, and President Dickey was present and spoke most interestingly about the problems of the College. His talk was closely followed and enthusiastically received by an attendance of more than one hundred active workers for the Alumni Fund. Of the older alumni present were Perry '80, Hilton '90, Emerson '92, Rice '95, Spring '98 and McDavitt '00.
Secretary and, Treasurer,108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.
