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As of January 31, 1953, Miss Margaret Hutchins, sister of Harry of our Class, retired from her position of Associate Professor in Columbia School of Library Service. We believe a brief outline of her life activities will be of definite interest to those of us who cherish the memory of her brother.

Smith College, A.B., Phi Beta Kappa; University of Illinois Library School, B.I.S., 1908; Columbia University (School of Library Service), M.S., 1931; Reference Assistant and Reference Librarian, University of Illinois Library until 1927. While there collaborated in a textbook, Guide to the Use of Libraries which went through several editions.

September 1927 to July 1930, Supervisor of Branch Reference in the Queens Borough Public Library, Jamaica, N. Y. Carnegie Fellowship at Columbia University 1930-31. Successively Instructor, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in Columbia School of Library Service. At the request of the American Library Association wrote Introduction toReference Work. Miss Hutchins plans to use her native Lancaster, N. H., as a permanent address, spending her summers there and her winters in New York.

In the spring 1952 issue of White MountainEchoes (issued at Lancaster, N. H., periodically) appeared an article by Miss Hutchins entitled, "How Different was the Teen-Age Boy of 1895?" This was based on Harry's boyhood diaries and to the writer this gives fascinating glimpses of boyhood life in the North Country. We shall hope to draw on this article for a future issue.

By one of those errors which can't be explained we failed to note the birth, nearly a year ago, of Scott Gregory Hayes to Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Hayes. Mrs. Hayes is the former Lorraine Bean, daughter of Ruth Jenkins. This makes our Class Baby a grandmother. Eheu fugaces, etc.

The Pete Fletchers were at Titusville, Fla., for the 1951-52 winter. This past winter they were at Winter Park where they have purchased a home to which they propose to retire each and every autumn as soon as the Arctic Circle and the Northern wolf pack transfer to Groton, Vt. We have no definite data on the subject but understand this seldom occurs prior to Columbus Day.

Mrs. Ted Gate died suddenly on March 14, '953' when returning to her home in Pittsburgh. Pa., after visiting friends in New York City. The children who survive her are Dorothea, wife of Andrew Rankin (Walter's son), Francis, Cynthia and Jeanette; and eight grandchildren.

An interesting letter has come in from Harold Holland. He ascribes his good health to two outdoor interests: (a) A stock and grain farm about ten miles out from his home in Galesburg, III. He spends much of his time there. The farm has been operated by three generations of the same family for over 45 years, (b) Ornithology, in which he has been interested since boyhood. He still does a lot of field and research work as well as photography.

John Condit, son of Dayton (obit June 1942) has, this last winter, been serving on the staff of Dartmouth's Director of Admissions while writing his thesis for an M.A. at Columbia. He entered Dartmouth in 1942 but his graduation was delayed until 1949 by war service. He spent a year teaching at Tilton Academy in New Hampshire; another studying at Munich University and a third at Columbia University in New York.

Secretary, Chatsworth Gardens Larchmont, N. Y. Class Agent, 212 Mill St., Newtonville 60, Mass.