1899

Summer, even though a hot one, has passed all too quickly, and here we are close around turkey-time, with birthday greetings to CharlieAdams and Bert Boston; with summer bypassed birthday greetings to big Jim Walker; and an October one for Dr. David Parker.

The Class of '99 sends best wishes for a speedy and full recovery from an attack of polio suffered by the Rev. Roger Barney '97,son of our late classmate Len Barney. JackAsh is still quite active. An interesting letter from him last June telling of a trip he had made from his Corvallis, Oregon, home to Newport where he has long had a summer cottage and where each spring he loves to go to admire the rhododendrons which bloom so profusely in that vicinity. He's still driving his car; more power to him, one of our oldest members. Among other things he writes of an unusual and beautiful Memorial Day custom of the people of Newport, Ore. Each year on that day they send out on the ocean a boatload of flowers in memory of those who have lost their lives at sea. One year Jack and his wife followed such a boat over twenty miles up the coast till they finally lost sight of it behind a headland. This year the Coast Guard took the boat out over the bar through the rough water and then turned it loose. It is a beautiful ceremony and each year it is viewed by thousands.

Maud Bailey, widow of our late H. MBailey, passed away on August 10, almost exactly a year after Herb's passing. Herb Collar's grandson, Grant J. Gruel jr. is back in classes in Hanover after his tour of duty in the Army and is due for graduation next June. Ed Allen has changed his place of abode from Scotia, N. Y., to 16 Greenwood Place Valhalla, N. Y. Was over Boston way in August and got into the midst of the floods and washouts round Southboro. One day couldn't get out of town because of 'em. Herb Rovers' daughter's family, the Batchelders, from Alabama, are back there after a two months' stay in Mexico City where Phil B. was supervising the construction of a paper mill.

Joe Gannon spent his summer vacation periods at his summer home at Ogunquit, Maine. Anne. Oakes was east in the spring, and then to Helena, Mont., where she had a wonderful four-day visit with school-day girl friends. Daughter Betty and family were with Anne for a five-weeks' visit and son Tommy '41 was there from Mexico for part of the time. He's now located in Guadalago and expects to make this place his home for some time.

And please bear in mind that if you want to know through these columns what your classmates are doing you'll just have to send along the "necessary" to your Class Sec.

David Francis Cavanaugh, eldest son of our own renowned "Cav," the "Iron Major" of World War I and one of our old football coaches, passed away in Syracuse, N. Y., on September 29. It was David to whom Cav wrote the letter in 1918 which was spread across the country and which read in part:

"You must always remember that your father came into this great war for the sake of all little children, and I know that you will, while I am gone, take good care of Mother and all the children. I can see you growing up tall and straight with shoulders back and head up, because that's what old Cav wants." It was printed in hundreds of newspapers.

Secretary, 659 Allen St., Syracuse to, N. Y.

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

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