1896

Another honor has come to our classmate, Robert Frost. He was a member of 1896 albeit for only about a year. He is without question the most widely known member of our class. His very wonderful poetry is read and known and loved by countless numbers.

He is the dean of American poets. He has been awarded four Pulitzer prizes. On June 13 last he was the guest of honor at the Boston Art Festival, held in Boston Public Garden, and was awarded the Festival Poetry Award by Nelson Aldrich, the Festival Director.

Your Secretary's son-in-law, H. Franklin Irwin '37, and Princeton Ph.D. '41, is in the State Department Foreign Service. He and his wife Josephine, Bryn Mawr '37, and their three children have been in the Consulate at Edinburgh, Scotland, for some three years. In. April last they were returned to Washington and reassigned to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he is Attache to the American Consulate. They have the problem of learning to speak and understand Spanish.

Word has been received of the death of William A. Meserve on June 10. A nongraduate, his home was in Creighton, Nebr. So far as your Secretary knows, he has had no contact with members of '96 since he left College.

Secretary and Bequest Chairman 206 Appleton St., Arlington, Mass.

Treasurer, 21 Forest Rd., Cape Elizabeth, Me.