1894

Let the boys and girls continue to speak for themselves (with C. C. M. as editor):

Bar Cassin: "I have just got home from Dick's House where I was a patient for 12 days with bronchial pneumonia. I am all run down and have lost a lot of flesh. Weight, 117 1/2 lbs. when I was discharged. How does that look beside my usual 145?

"I would like to be one of those to congratulate B. Smalley on his 80th birthday soon; I am three years over four "score the 20th of October.

"I am now on the gain and the doctor, on the occasion of my discharge, said, 'Eat, Eat, Eat.' Well, I am doing that."

Jimmie Mann: "Am getting firmly installed in the 'same old' class same town, same house, same job. Even my family, formerly seven, has decreased to a permanent two. When it goes to one, looks like I would be the shrinker, but the family pretty well maintains the tribe's history of change.

"The entire tribe in-laws and all seem to have been disgustingly fit except E. {his wife], who is now again fit as a fiddle, who had an operation for a varicose ulcer shortly after returning from the Reunion and went to a sanitorium and to Tucson to visit Mary.

"All are occupied except Roger, Martha's husband. Formerly a Major, now on Reserve waiting to see what' will happen. Present occupations in order of age (more or less): J. L. M. Road Design Dept., State Highway (Indianapolis) Edith, the wife in charge of lingerie, L. Strauss (Department Store) C. H. Eberhard (Frances' (No. 1) husband) Truck and Auto tires and repairs (Indianapolis). Frances, home body, three children and club woman. Roger Martin As above: Martha (No. 2), his wife Housewife. Small town socialite and general church and village promotion (Bedford). Jimmie (No. 3) Has charge of super-secret photos at Northrop (Los Angeles) Mary (No. 4) Formerly teaching Tucson schools, now "expecting" about Xmas. Paul MacCready Jr. (husband) Student, broadcaster arid salesman (Tucson) . Betty (No. 5) Housewife, small town socialite, political promotion for husband. Harry Bergnall Jr. (husband) Lawyer associated with prominent firm (Coolidge, Ariz.)"

Eddie Grover: "Time is catching up with all of us, but my sisters and I are growing old busily and happily. My sister Eulalie has just writing a 300. page biography of Benjamin Franklin, being a story of his life told for the teen-age.... Her SunbonnetBabies book is still on the market and has sold a million copies. The Associated Press interviewed and photographed her for a feature story as the Dean of present juvenile writers.... And she won't be 78 until next summer!

"We had a wonderful summer at 'Green Gables, our summer log cabin at the foot of Huckleberry Mountain, six miles out from Hendersonville, N. C. ... I put in five or six hours a day at manual labor on the place and when the summer was over, I tipped the scales at 195 pounds. This weight was partly due to the quarts of milk on which I have been living for the past two years to get rid or my peptic ulcers. I think I have them well under control and am again eating chicken, fish and other balmy foods. Some day, I am going to celebrate with a juicy beefsteak.

"Last fall I was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of Bethune-Cookman College at Daytona Beach. It is the leading college for Negroes in the state, with a college student body of 1100 and 700 veterans taking vocational work. I am now 'President Emeritus' of the Mead Botanical Garden and a member of the Board. I am still President of the 'Hannibal Square Associates,' which promoted the Library and the Community Center for the Negroes of Winter Park. We are now jointly completing a fund of $10,000 to build a ten-bed nursing home for them.

"We shall miss having Spooner here this winter, for he was an active and regular attendant at our Dartmouth round-ups.

"We reached our summer cabin on June 3, just in time for a quiet celebration on June 4 of my 80th birthday. My two daughters spend some time there with us. Frances is now in north Florida, where she is taking a course in library training at Tallahassee. Hester is enjoying her work with the American Friends Service headquarters in Philadelphia."

Mrs. Fred Mudgett: "I recall Fred's telling of the esteem in which Dr. Tucker held your class, and think the occasion of which you speak {the day he told us how much he appreciated our help, as the Senior Class, during his first year] occurred before Fred's death [Yes] or have I heard it from someone else ? It was a great day for the class and worthy of your remembrance.

"With others I was grieved to learn of Spooner's death. I saw him in Florida three years ago and again in Hanover last year when there seemed no reason to fear his leaving us so soon. Hope joins me in greetings and best wishes to the class."

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass.

Treasurer, 60 Maple St., Somersworth, N. H.

Class Agent, 9 Felton St., Hudson, Mass.