1894

From now on out until July this column will be headed by a quotation which was at the end of the February column and by mistake was not credited to Eddie Grover.

I expect to see you at Hanover in June!

Arthur Stone and the Secretary are in not quite daily communication with reference to arrangements which he is making at Hanover for our 60th. Details went out to the members of the '94 family during the month of March. Accommodations at the Inn will be supplemented by accommodations in one of the Massachusetts Halls. The Class Dinner is scheduled for Saturday evening, June 12, in Thayer Hall. Decker Field and Phil Marden have been appointed Co-Masters-of-Ceremonies.

What this Class Secretary would do without the assistance of Philip Sanford Marden he doesn't at all know. Phil's lively, pertinent and comprehensive column in the March issue was one fine illustration of what he has been doing all the years.

Most of this month's space will be devoted to the '94 contacts which the Secretary made in his February visit to. Florida. Unfortunately Arthur Stone and wife didn't go to Florida until March. Ben Welion and wife were too far from the beaten track for the Secretary to reach them. Mrs. Aubrey Lewis had to be just a day late, to her great regret and ours. Otherwise it seemed to be a complete '94 Florida Round-up which was held around a luncheon table in Sunrise Terrace, Winter Park, on Lincoln's Birthday, February 12.

Eddie Graver, who had assembled the group, sat at one; end, with the Treasurer of the Class at the other end. At Eddie's right was Austin '95, with the Secretary and Mrs. Victor Spooner occupying the other two seats on that side. On Eddie's left were Mrs. BillyAmes; her, sister, Mrs. Ackerman; and BudLyon's sister, Mrs. Minerva Norris. Mrs. Norris gave her impression of the occasion in this extract from a letter to the Secretary:

"The '94 Reunion was one of the happiest days of this winter. I felt as if I were in that half-way place between earth and Heaven. Is it Paradise? You all brought me so many memories of Bert."

After the luncheon Eddie Grover piloted the group to the Mead Botanical Garden, of which he is the head and shoulders. He then took them to the Congregational Church Parish House where a Hobby Show was going on. Edie was represented by orchids. He had given the Secretary a preview of the Garden and of the hobby show the day before, which afforded the Secretary an opportunity to spend some time with Mrs. Spooner after the luncheon.

One doesn't know which of Eddie's achievements that make him just about, if not quite, the First Citizen of Winter Park, to play up first. Probably it is the Mead Botanical Garden. However, what he did for Rollins College in establishing the chair of Professor of Books and filling that chair for approximately 25 years, and in establishing the Rollins Animated Magazine, the 27th volume of which was published on February 21, deserves very honorable mention. It was good to find Eddie looking so well. The local papers carried a picture of him pinning an orchid on Lillian Gish, one of the speakers at the AnimatedMagazine.

Toward the end of the afternoon the Secretary was taken in hand by Billy and NettieAmes and transported to their winter home at Vero Beach. There he spent five delightful days. Billy showed me his orange grove which he has developed to such an extent that he doesn't need to give it the close personal attention which was true in previous years. He may now be said really to be enjoying it and, indeed, life in general.

In late January word came that Fred Smalley had suffered a paralytic stroke. His brother, B, reports that he is making encouraging progress and there is hope that he will soon be able to go to his home at Bryant Pond.

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass.

Class Agent 82 Hillside Ave., Nutley 10, N. J.