1895

Our Class has been sadly depleted during the past weeks. Albion Wilson was a recent loss by sudden death. Joe Ford died suddenly a few weeks later. William Wight died on January 12, 1951.

My own family has been suddenly bereft. Mrs. Stevens passed away very suddenly Sunday, January 14.

From now on others of our Class family will pass on. This is history repeating itself.

Dr. Jesse K. Marden, our most distinguished Classmate, died of cerebral thrombosis, March 21, 1949. He was the only one graduating in our Class who was honored by a special citation for an honorary degree. I have polled the Class as to individuals desiring a copy of his life story. Mrs. Marden and her sister have published a booklet on Dr. Marden's dynamic and interesting life. The following Christmas and New Year's Greeting, issued in printed form by Mrs. Marden and Miss Morley, was distributed during Christmas week:

"560 Mayflower Road Claremont, Calif.

"Dear Friends: "Our joint greetings for Christmas and the New Year go from beautiful Pilgrim Place where we have been all the year, except for seven weeks in the summer.

"As in every life and every year, there have been lights and shadows; but the lights have predominated. Lucy's broken vertebra and resultant ten weeks in a plaster jacket was one shadow. A deeper one was the Home-going of Mr. Dana Getchell on November 1.

"Lights were: 1. Our trip in July, when Bertha's foster-son, Robert Daoud, drove all the way from Spokane and took us back with him for seven weeks in Spokane and northwest Idaho, then motored us back to our door. These weeks were high-lighted by the coming of our sister Lillis (Mrs. Nutting), her daughter Ruth, and married daughter Nannie Chaffee and husband, to Kellogg, Idaho, where live the two oldest of the Chaffee sons, Sidney and Carroll, and their dear families. And our visit with them all in Kellogg was climaxed by a trip to Coulee Dam.

"2. A week's visit in November from Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Pye.

"3. In Bertha's foster-family, the building of a new home in Monroeville, Ohio, by Setrak (Dr. S. James Kashian); and a son born to John and Rosalie Karbo, in Alhambra, Calif.

"The outstanding achievement of the year for Lucy is the getting out of a booklet on the life of Dr. Marden.

"Life grows sweeter and richer in fellowship and in faith, as we climb the ladder of the years; and as we learn more and more of the wonder of God's love, our hearts go out with increasing love to friends far and near.

Ever faithfully, LUCY H. MARDEN BERTHA B. MORLEY."

Secretary, White River Jet., Vt.

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

Class Agent, 1328 Essex Rd., Winter Park, Fla.