1899

Many '99ers have birthdays this month. Felicitations and May flowers to Dearborn,Hawkes, Hoban, Kendall, Lynch and Whittier. A distinguished roster.

Our one and only minister of the gospel, Montie Fuller, reports that continuing lameness limits his activities and consequently he no longer is able to render supply pulpit service as he has from time to time in the past. However, he and his good wife Martha are enjoying serenity at their home in Thomaston, Conn., comforted with the recollection of many friendships and the well-being of sons and their wives and their daughter and her husband. Son Mark and Nora live in Albany, N. Y., Melville and Pauline and their daughters, Jean and Nancy, in Great Barrington, Mass., Marcia and her husband Robert Brennan, with their three sons, Jerry, William Fuller and Bob Jr., in St. Petersburg, Fla. If you write to Montie, and please do, he will be grateful. All in '99 have a warm place in his heart.

For one who is retired, Louis Benezet is a very busy man. He writes:

"I am still teaching. One of our History Department professors (Evansville College) has left and I am being transferred to take some of his work the coming term. We operate on the quarter system. I have given six lectures since January 1- Rotary, Kiwanis, Minister's Association, Jewish Synagogue, Shrine Club, East High School, and have three more scheduled in the near future So I manage to keep busy. We have eight grandchildren now—three at Honolulu, three at Meadville, Pa., and two at West Hartford, Conn."

Hawley and Mrs. Chase sojourned at Vero Beach, Fla., during March, motoring there from their home in Newport, N. H. On the way down they stopped over night at the Carolina Hotel at Pinehurst and had a pleasant visit with Tim Lynch who spends his winters there and plays golf almost every day on the famous links which attract many devotees of the game.

The following contributions of Ned Baldwin are among several that have appeared in newspapers:

"When Abraham Lincoln was in Congress in 1848, he described a fellow congressman's speech as follows: 'Representative Jackson in his speech is very like a ten-foot steam boat that used to run on the Sangamon River. It had a seven-foot whistle, and every time the whistle blew, the boat stopped.'

"Congressman Justin S. Morrill of Vermont, in iB6O describing a colleague's speech in the House of Representatives, said: 'His discourse was a copious diarrhea of ponderous, polished platitudes; which, when allowed to settle, showed hardly a sediment of common sense.' "

Continuation of the late June weekend at Swampscott, which many classmates and their families have enjoyed for several years past, is now under advisement. The Secretary would like to hear from those in favor of continuing it next month.

AT HOME: Rev. Montie J. B. Fuller '99 is shown with Mrs. Fuller at their home in Thomaston, Conn.

Secretary, The New York Times 229 West 43rd St., New York 36, N. Y. Treasurer, 11 Park View Drive, Worcester, Mass. Class Agent, 659 Allen St., Syracuse 10, N. Y.