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On October 31 "Honest Dan" Watson was 79 years old and this is how he announces this interesting fact:

Oct. 31, 1949

Today I'm seventy-nine. The Choice is mine. The best of it to make Or 'belliach.'

I might fegret my years, The futile tears; I might abandon hope And idly mope.

Begone, delusive whim! It's up to him Whose better days are told To cheerily be old.

In reply to my inquiry of Classmates as to what sort of reunion we should have at our 55th, "H. Dan" wrote: "I have no suggestions as to a program for our 55th. I do not expect to attend but will probably send some sort of written greeting.

"My prospects in health are not at all promising; June, 1950, is likely to find me incapable o£ catching the boat. The spirit will be most willing but the flesh weak. However, if by some miracle of renewing youth, or even five-year-ago age, I'll venture the trip. Nothing for me better than to contact the fragments of '95 once more."

Ernest Gile writes that he plans to be up for our 55th, but suggests that we keep it on the quiet side. He reports that all is well with him.

"Tappan" Mason plans to attend the reunion. He writes, "I have no suggestions for the reunion except that it should be simple and as little trouble to Mrs. Stevens and you as possible. Just to get together and renew the old times is what we really want." He and Mrs. Mason observed their 50th wedding anniversary at Lido Norde beach in California with their son's family and friends.

"Dud" West says he is concentrating on our Reunion. He wrote a postal to John Hayes recently telling him that his trouble (glaucoma) can be helped by new treatment and that it is not as desperate as it once was.

My space is filled. I must defer more news till the next issue.

Secretary, White River Jet., Vt.

Treasurer, 10 Occum Ridge, Hanover, N. H.