1891

When a class reduces to fifteen living members, it is difficult for the Secretary to have an actual picture of what is going on among men who are now averaging over 80 years of age. It is particularly true for Ninety-One as the nearest member is in Manchester, Mass.

Anyway about two weeks ago, the Secretary passed ten minutes with Shorty French now confined to his bed since December and under the care of three nurses. He seemed pleased to have the Secretary call.

Then, on April 3, it was possible for the Secretary and Mrs. Rowe to call on the Quints ;n Manchester-by-the-Sea. As the Class recalls, Dr Quint has been retired for several years, but has done some interim term preaching. Mrs. Quint is very lame and obliged to get about with the help of crutches. Mrs. Rowe and I were pleased to meet their daughter Elizabeth, a librarian in the Essex Institute, Salem.

By an inexcusable error, Mrs. Edward G. Watkins, formerly Mrs. Bertram Gilman, was omitted from the list of families. As on the trip last summer the Rowes had a delightful call on Mrs. Watkins and so told Ninety-One in the October letter; it still rankles that he omitted the address of the widow of our valedictorian.

Mrs. Watkins very modestly tells in a recent letter that three grandchildren are in schools of higher education. John Haggart is at Case Institute in Cleveland; Mary Annis Roberts is a freshman at Cornell; Judith Moore is at Walnut Hill, where her mother was secretary before her marriage. Judith is going to Katherine Gibbs next year. "They seem to have inherited some of their grandfather's brains, I like to think." We who know of the high standing of Mrs. Watkins as librarian in Gardner would give at least equal credit to grandma.

Secretary and. Treasurer, Suite 505, 60 Congress St., Boston 9, Mass.

Class Agent, New London, N. H.