1885

One more of the small number of '85 graduates has passed on as was noted in the July number of the MAGAZINE. Lorrain Weeks died on June 17 following an operation. Had he lived until September 17 he would have observed his 90th birthday. For the past several years he has lived with his son William at Jamaica, Long Island, where he pursued his daily avocation of a mile walk even to the end of his life. He was bora in Gilmanton, N. H. and after graduation taught for a while in Kingston, R. I. and in Fairbank, lowa. Later he returned to Gilmanton and devoted himself to his farm there, meanwhile writing for the county paper. He was active in the Congregational church, serving as deacon and as teacher and superintendent in its Sunday school. According to Herbert Foster, "he led the life of a contented rural philosopher." '85 has now six living graduates and one

John Brooks, as usual, spent the summer at his old home in Eliot, Me. During the summer he called on Warren Adams at Rye, N. H. and found him in good health, and, as usual, playing golf regularly at the Wentworth

Mrs. Edwin H. Brooks (Beatrice Allard) spent a part of the summer in New England. Because of the absence of her son and daughter, together with the death of her mother, Mrs. Allard, she has given up her former large house and has moved into a small apartment. Her address is still Western College, Oxford, Ohio.

The secretary and Mrs. Austin quietly observed their 6oth wedding anniversary on May 2 at their home on the shore of Lake Winnepauket, Webster, N. H. (postoffice Warner, N. H.) They are very fortunate in having all the members of their family in the immediate vicinity during a part of the summer months, son, daughter, grandson, two granddaughters, and a great granddaughter.

Secretary and Treasurer, Warner, N. H.