1899

June birthday greetings, to Hawley Chase,Sam Smith, and Lucius Varney. Montie Fuller, '99's only minister, though retired from active work, still preaches now and then, as he did on April 24. But a heart condition still aggravates him, and, as Montie says, "doesn't give any advance warning of its actions." AlbertGalusha's granddaughter Gwendolyn, now in college, is seriously thinking of becoming a medical missionary in Africa. Herb Rogers' son-in-law Philip Batchelder was in Mexico City in April, planning on the erection of a new paper mill there. His command of Spanish is a great asset in this connection. Herb's other son-in-law, Donald Noyes, with Westinghouse, is now chief inspector in their Springfield, Mass., plant.

Ed Nye and wife, after spending the winter in Gulfport, Miss., stopped off on their way home for a pleasant visit with Joe Gannon at his New York Times office. Ed, or Bill to us, also planned on seeing son Richard '25 and daughter Mrs. Carl Fuchs while in New York. Kenneth Beat's wife May had another visit at the Lahey Clinic, Boston, on April 28, and then had to go to New England Baptist Hospital for further checkup after that. We all hope for her rapid and complete recovery. Sandy Irving, up and around again, looks a bit better than when K. Beal had last seen him, but wife Tat had been in bed for a week with the flu, third time this past winter. They sure have had it tough, but for them, too, we hope that the spring weather has worked wonders.

After seven years as president of Allegheny College, Louis Benezet's son Louis '36 is resigning. Offered State Commissioner of Education for Pennsylvania, he declined, and on September 1 takes over as president of Colorado College at Colorado Springs. Though no larger than Allegheny, Colorado College is the only liberal arts college in the whole Rocky Mountain Region. We all wish him the best of success in his new field. Wintering in Florida wasn't enough of milder climes for Hawley and Margaret Chase, for a card postmarked April 30 shows them in Bermuda.

As these few notes go to Hanover, Joe Gannon and your Sec-Agent are following along there for the spring meetings of the alumni class officers, hoping for good spring weather. A newsletter that you will receive at about the time these notes come to hand gives you a few more intimate details. But for those of you who have not yet contributed to the Alumni Fund, please let's make '99 a 199% contributing class.

Secretary and Class Agent 659 Allen St., Syracuse 10, N. Y.