1894

This columnist slipped a cog last month in not noting birthdays. So you were without information that Jimmie Mann was 76, on February 25, and Walter Merrill, 75, on February 17? Sorry, boys.

March seems to have been quite a prolific month for '94. The list is headed by BillyWallis, who joins the Octogenarian Group, March 11. It is now a quartet: Lovejoy, Gibbons, and Cassin having preceded Billy. Senator Amey is next in line, but not until December. Herman Lovejoy suggests that the octogenarians

"ought to organize a Birthday Greeting Club or do something to emphasize and perpetuate the fact that we're still alive after eight decades of life beginning back in the late sixties or early seventies and continuing through the 'good old days' of the Gay Nineties and the not-so-good days of two World Wars and on to the topsy-turvey world in which we now find ourselves." Incidentally, Billy Wallis' address is 1720 Kenyon Street, N.W., Washington 10, D. C.

The other March birthdays are: March 15, John Henry Bartlett (1869); March 20, WoodyParker (1871); March 3, C. C. Merrill (1872); and March 27, Decker Field (1872).

Mrs. Jim Townsend took the advice of her doctor and the prompting of her common sense last fall and, accompanied by her son Jack, went on an extensive automobile trip to her old home in Ohio, then to Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, New Orleans, and home via Texas and the Southern route—a jaunt of about 22,000 miles, with their '38 Buick rendering splendid service.

Mrs. Carl Hoskins writes of an expected trip to California this winter, and Mrs. FrankTrow speaks of a visit she made to Massachusetts last fall. She spends most of her time between her three children—Marion, still in Poughkeepsie; Stanley in Arlington, Va.; and Harold, on the farm where he raises 1800 turkeys as his father did and serves as Supt. of Highways in Red Hook.

At the Tuesday Pow-Wow of the University Club in Winter Park, Fla., Edwin OsgoodGrover was given a warm tribute for his highly successful work as president of the Mead Botanical Garden. Here is the citation in part:

"Few in this community will ever realize how much time and thought, business ability and energy Dr. Grover has put into this horticultural venture. His personal sacrifice, we suspect, has been very great. More than a hobby, he has treated the Garden as a community enterprise affording an unrivaled opportunity for the study of our native flora and of orchids, botany's aristocrats

"Always optimistic, he has greeted inquiring friends with the report of an occasional new subscriber to his precious orchidaria. Indeed, he has not only kept the Garden going, almost singlehanded, but he has actually developed it, witness his four greenhouses, evidence of his diplomatic gift in securing the cooperation of other plant collectors.

"We salute this fellow-member, this valuable citizen. Winter Park, Orlando, and Central Florida all owe a debt to him they can never repay. Had this Club the authority to confer degrees, his, at our hands, would be summa cum laude."

Secretary, REV. 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass. Treasurer, 89 Prospect St., Somersworth, N. H. Class Agent, 9 Felton St., Hudson, Mass.