1894

This is "the morning after" the annual Matt Jones Fall Roundup, but this columnist is feeling neither dazed nor groggy but very much set up.

This year's Roundup was held at the Howard Johnson restaurant on Route i, just outside the city of Portsmouth, N. H., on Wednesday, October 3. This restaurant is partly owned by our classmate, Woodie Parker, and he and his gracious wife were our completely adequate hosts. They were assisted by Miss Wood, who manages the restaurant. The partnership between her and Woodie comes out of a long friendship. The meal served was Howard Johnson at its very best.

'94 now has fourteen living members of whom seven were present. Last year we had seventeen living members of whom eight were present. (The three men who have died during the year are Field, Welton, and Gibbon.) Present this year: Ames, Cassin, Marden, and C. C.Merrill - and all came without what was last year called "uxorial and maternal support." This means that their wives were not with them. Hall, Parker, and Stone did not have this disadvantage; their wives were there. In addition there were three wives of deceased members, Mesdames Gilford, Sawyer, and G. E.Mann. Woody's son Lloyd and wife finally represented the children of the class, although we were sorry there were not more of this group. Mrs. W. W. Jobson, sister of Mrs. Arthur Stone, was also present, bringing the total number up to sixteen.

Woodie had sent out invitations to 48 members of the class family and remarked that if they had all come "we would have had a real party." The rest of us thought, however, that we were having a real party as it was. Of the 48, 37 responded, either by attendance or by letter. Of the members of the class who were not present, letters were read from Grover,Martyn, Knowlton, B. Smalley, Lovejoy and Colby. Letters were also read from seventeen wives of deceased members, children and our one honorary member, a summary of which will be given in succeeding issues of this magazine.

Especially regrettable were the absences of Mrs. Victor Spooner, who had been on her back in the Maine General Hospital for eight weeks on account of a broken hip, and of Mrs. Rob Penniman, who had undergone an emergency operation to remove a non-malignant obstruction in her system. Mrs. Penniman had come through the ordeal so far better than could have been expected, there is hope of complete recovery. She is in the Windsor Hospital at Windsor, Vt.

Due notice was taken of the fact that Woodie, our host, has been twenty-five years Town Clerk of Hudson, Mass. Woodie says he will decline to run again next March, but we predict that he will not be permitted this exit from public service.

In pursuance of his duties as Bequest Chairman of the class, Phil Marden was registered at the Hanover Inn, September 14.

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

Treasurer, 60 Maple St., Somersworth, N. H.

Bequest Chairman,