1902

This is June at last, the month of our Golden Reunion, and your secretary is looking forward with pleasure to meeting all of you about whom he has been telling stories for the past ten years. Please excuse him if he has neglected some of you or if at times his notes have been prosaic. He has attempted to put a little life into the class picture and really enjoyed your many kind letters and thanks you heartily for them.

When one of us has definitely retired and gets called back, even temporarily, to resume some of his old duties, there is a certain thrill about that resumption of duty which is very pleasant. I experienced it when I was down on the Florida Keys at Marathon, where there was no physician, and I had five emergency calls. True, not being registered in Florida, I could make no charge; but I was paid in gratitude and twice in a bottle of the best bourbon and again in a bottle of Fine Champagne.

I knew when I had letters from HermFarwell and Watty that they were experiencing the same pleasure when they again became professors for a time. Herm, last summer, went back to Columbia to give his old course in optics at the summer school and Watty returned for several months last winter to teaching English when Prof. Cox died suddenly at Dartmouth.

It is a joy to get a letter from Burr Whitcher because it is always a newsy letter and has always a cheery note. He pictures a happy, ideal family life which he and his good wife have worked hard to attain. Dr. Burr is still doing active practice with a good bit of obstetrics in New Jersey and his wife does nursing, having charge of the children's ward in the Burlington County Hospital from 3 to 11 p.m. daily. Burr's family is growing up. His son Robert is in the Air Force and his oldest daughter Mary, having studied to be a nurse, has married a University of Pennsylvania graduate who is a lieutenant in the Air Force. Burr says he gave her a lovely wedding and she has grown to be a beautiful young lady. His next daughter Jeanette is to take up nursing this fall and he says his youngest daughter Arline "is as bright and wide-awake as can be." Burr is coming to the reunion and bringing his wife. We will give them a royal welcome.

Secretary, 7 Ship Channel Rd., South Portland, Me.

Treasurer, 73 Tremont St., Boston 8, Mass.

Class Agent, R. F. D., Hubbardston, Mass.