1899

Returns from the first committee bulletin on the 55th Reunion are very hopeful. One member is bringing a family of eight, including two grandsons. If you should be one 01 the few still undecided,.please sign up pronto so that room reservations may be finally completed.

Sometime ago the Secretary was informed that Raymond Pearl's daughter, Penelope, presented the library of her illustrious father to the Dartmouth College Library. It was a voluminous and most valuable contribution.

Word was received early last month that Herbert Bailey was a patient in the Claremont N.H., Hospital. Condition reported "very' poor." Also that George Clark was again in the hospital in Hanover for a minor operation.

The Oakes were trekking again last month —to Woodstock, Vt., New York and a few weeks in St. Petersburg. Fla.

Bessie (Mrs. Peddie) Miller has changed her residence from Black Mountain, N.C., to Orlando, Fla., to be near her son Maurice who lives there.

Florence Cushman, who returned to her old home town Joliet, Ill., sometime after the death of Cush, is planning to return to Randolph, Vt„ this summer to live there permanently.

The following was received from Robert F. Leavens '01. Bob is an Episcopal minister in Berkeley, Calif.

"Some member of your class was so kind as to send me a copy of Report Thirty-Six, issued last June. The report became useful unexpectedly this week. I learned a day or two in advance that a member of '99 was to be present with his son-in-law, at the regular weekly lunch of local Dartmouth alumni in San Francisco. It was John W. Ash of Corvallis, Ore.

"Thinking that I might introduce him to the group, all younger alumni, and having no personal recollection of him from my own college days, I looked him up in the 1950 Alumni Directory, in the 1940 General Catalog, in the college catalogues of the four years in which your class was in College, in the Aegis published by your class, and in this new Report Thirty-Six of your class. Needless to say, the last named gave me more information, especially up-to-date information than any of the other booklets. I had the pleasure of presenting him to 25 alumni more or less. He was well received and made a lively spicy response. His son-in-law is Roy Smith, a photographer in Oakland and a resident of East Bay. I always had high regard for '99, never more so than in recent years, and now more than ever since receiving the newly issued report."

Heigh Ho and away we go for the 55th!

Secretary and Bequest Chairman New York Times, 229 W. 43rd St., New York 36, N.Y.

Treasurer,: 11 Park View Drive, Worcester 5, Mass.