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The Boston Globe of April 7, 1947, published the Harry Clark letter from the March 1947 Class Notes in the MAGAZINE, together with pictures of Harry and Mrs. Clark.
Joe Bartlett, Bucky Chandler and Ted Leggett reuned in Florida this winter with DickMarcy.
Albert Smith writes that he is going very gently in everything but office work. He has had to buy a house where they can live on one floor. Work very interesting and at times almost exciting. "Am looking forward to next year's Reunion."
Judge John R. Spring, Tax Commissioner of New Hampshire, was a speaker at the testimonial dinner tendered Henry W. Long, Massachusetts Tax Commissioner at the Copley Plaza, Boston, March 13, 1947.
Fletcher Swift though retired is a very busy man. He says he is in better health than for twenty years. After his return last September from teaching in the summer school of the University of Southern California, he was asked to serve on various committees of the University of California, chiefly committees to examine candidates for the Doctor's degrees. He has been a member of a committee to draft a bill for the legislature embodying a new plan for apportioning the State School Fund. Fletcher will lecture in the 1947 six weeks Summer Session and the four weeks Postsession of the University of Southern California. On January 9, 1947, his elder daughter, Mary Ruth, presented them with their first grandchild.
Ev Snow furnished some very interesting notes and these are only a portion, a cut was regretfully necessary because of limited space.
"Supposed to be retired some years ago, I am now completing my fifth year as the minister of a small Community Church of Congregational affiliations located in the town of Stratham, N. H., on the main highway between Exeter and Portsmouth, about three and one half miles from Exeter.
"Here in this New Hampshire parish we try to carry on in typical pastoral fashion. Preaching, teaching, exchanging hospitality, baptizing, marrying, burying, cooperating in numerous forms of social service, trying to follow up our youth as they endeavor to get started in their varied careers beyond the boundaries of our town,—these are some of the church activities that claim the time and interest of Ruth Snow and me as the days go speeding by.
"Both of our daughters are married. The older one with her husband has her home about twenty five miles south of Boston in the town of Norwell. Both she and her husband are in business and commute regularly to Boston. Our youngest daughter with her husband, a doctor, and their two boys, make their home in Detroit where he is chief of staff of the Children's Hospital of Michigan.
"Contacts with classmates are not as frequent as one would wish. We recently called on Harriette Patey in Brookline, Mass. We found her comfortably housed in an apartment with her sister, bravely carrying on in spite of some hampering physical handicaps, deeply interested though in any news about the class whose devoted secretary Phil was for so many years. Jack Spring and his wife gave us the pleasure of an overnight visit. They have both made places for themselves in the state and New England has been enriched by their respective contributions. Ernest Gleason, with his daughter, stopped in to say 'Hello' as they motored through town last summer for an outing in Maine. He seems to be carrying his years as well, if not better, than most of the rest of us. From Bob Peck, out in Carmel-by- the-Sea, Calif., comes word of his great joy in all that wife and home mean to him in a climate that is so much kinder to him than was that that he knew for many years in Concord, N. H. Handicapped in health as he was when he went there some years ago, and, injured as they both were by a serious automobile accident, they report continual improvement. In nearby Exeter, Archie Kendall, reinforced by a very capable business-minded wife, conducts a thriving real estate business. By the doctor's orders, he spends his winters in Florida but the return of milder weather brings him back to N. H. We pass the time of day off and on in his town and are always especially interested when there is any fresh news from the class. I tried to call on Jones over in Rochester a while ago but his office was closed and I did not see him. Dover evidently places a real value on the service that Batchelder has rendered through the years. These are some contacts that I have made, both direct and indirect. Perhaps others too will report. It would be a pleasure to hear.
"One additional fact I want to mention. It is a debt of gratitude that I owe to Ted Leggett. Back in 1914 I joined a pension fund established in the Congregational Church. For a good many years now, Ted has been one of the directors of that fund. The quarterly checks began when I was 65 and have continued without interruption. I don't need to state that they have been welcomed. Many thanks, Ted, for what you have done."
To those who have not done so, send along your contributions to Jack Spring for the Alumni Fund.
Secretary and Treasurer, 14 Sayward St., Dorchester, Mass.
