1905

You will already have been appraised through Sliver Hatch's Reporter of our grievous loss in the passing of Gilbert Fall. An able, painstaking treasurer and a most cordial friend, Gib will be sadly missed. The deep sympathy of the class goes to his wife and son in their sad loss. We hope that Florence will continue to grace our reunions with her presence.

Roger Brown has requested that we print this notice: "Our Executive Committee has asked me to take over the job of Class Treasurer. I explained to Fred Chase and Sliver Hatch that I was leaving September 21 on a trip to the west coast and would be in Florida during January and February. In spite of this, they insisted that I take over. I feel very much honored and will give the job my best effort. I know that I cannot carry on in the manner that Gib Fall and his good wife have done during the last few years. I feel that they both gave their very best to the task of collecting dues and keeping in touch. Their reports show that results have been close to 100%. I assure all of our classmates that I will make every possible effort to keep up the good work."

We are fortunate to have in Roger Brown so capable a man to take over the treasurership for the class. When he asks for your class dues, we trust that Roger will receive the same good response as was accorded to Gib.

Men who have been as active all their lives as Carroll Campbell has find it impossible to retire completely. He has become the chief engineer for the F. B. Amusements Inc. At last account, "Camp" was building a drive-in movie near Middletown, Conn.

Likewise Henry Norton has been, as he expresses it, "oozing" into retirement. Having left the chairmanship of the Board of the New York, Susquehanna and Western R. R., he has become chairman of the finance committee of Walter Kidde & Co., and also chairman of the board of Walter Kidde Nuclear Laboratories. Since he has no executive duties, he is freer to do what he wishes, such as concerning himself with transit problems in New York and San Francisco.

Squeezed out of last month's column by lack of space, I am including some items which, though hardly "news" now, are of too great interest to be omitted. Last May 9 was held a most enjoyable party of 'OS men and ladies. At the instance of Charlie Brooks and EdRichardson, this was a sort of informal North Shore party and took place at Exeter Inn, Exeter, N. H. Present were: Charlie andJessie Brooks, Roger Brown, Ned Estes and sister Mrs. Oliver, Oscar and Mrs. Gilbert,Harold Haskell and daughter Ann, Royal andIda Parkinson, Ed and May Richardson, RayRoot and his daughter Mollie Taylor. Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert then held open house at their home. They planned to sail from Montreal on a freighter the following Saturday for a ten-week trip to England and Scotland.

Charlie Brooks is still town clerk. He has sold his poultry and cattle. The Brookses have redecorated their house on the farm to make it the home of their retirement.

In a recent note, passed on to me by RoyalParkinson, whom I have to thank frequently for news items, Jim Mulally writes that he was recently recuperating from pneumonia, an attack which had confined him to the hospital. In the same institution at the same time one of his daughters-in-law was confined and gave birth to a 9½-pound boy, Jim's 16th grandchild. Congratulations, Jim.

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Treasurer, Box 13, Somerville, Mass.

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