1905

No doubt spurred on by the jibes of those who scorn retiring or staying retired, your scribe has slipped back into the classroom. This time it is a part-time job teaching two classes of Greek at Bloomfield College and Seminary. He is finding the work very pleasant and far from burdensome. This is a small school which had specialized for a long period of time in preparing young men for bilingual service in the Presbyterian ministry. It has included in its courses of study such rather unusual subjects as the Hungarian language. When the demand for such service fell off, because nearly all groups now use only English, the school had dropped in numbers severely. It's now enjoying a fine resurgence.

The name of Rufus son, Dr. Emerson Day '34, appears in a recent newspaper report. Under the date of February 18 he is mentioned as speaking at a conference on cancer under the sponsorship of the New York Cancer Committee. He is quoted as saying that there were means available for saving one third of the people who are slated to die of cancer, provided the cases are reported early enough. Dr. Day is director of the Strang Prevention Clinic.

Chester A. Grover is now field agent of the Masonic Service Association of the United States and is located at the V. A. hospital, Alexandria, La. His address is 122 A Rainbow Drive, Pineville La.

A card from Walt Conley from Montego Bay, Jamaica, states that he had a fine trip down and was enjoying the balmy air (75-80° in the morning) and correspondingly warm water. As you admit, Walt, you'll have to do a lot of wood chopping when you get home to get into your usual robust form!

Gib Fall writes that he has long since started conning the seed catalog, looking forward to the days when his Cape garden will reward him once more with rich returns materially as well as esthetically in an abundance of choice vegetables and lovely flowers.

As I am preparing these notes, word has reached me of the passing of Katharyne, wife of Stanley Besse. Through a call to the home, I learned that Tubby himself is laid up with a relapse of an attack of virus pneumonia, but that he was making some improvement. Our hearts go out to you, Tubby, in deep sympathy in your great loss.

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