1899

June birthday greetings to Sam Smith, the one and only for this month. Herb Watson still continues a-working with Stone & Webster, one of the few '99ers who has not yet taken his retirement. Doc Hardwick and PaulOsgood are both reported on the sick list, but we are all hoping that good spring weather, if it ever gets here, will speedily bring them back to health again. The class was represented at Arthur Irving's funeral by Agnes Watson, Esther Parker, and May and Kenneth Beal.

Small world, this, as witnessed by a bit of an experience Louis Benezet recently had at the hospital where his wife is a patient in Honolulu. An old man there, six feet tall, wiry and strong, though having lost the power of free locomotion, started a conversation with Benny as follows:

"When I lived in Beantown - " Said Benny, "Are you talking about Boston, my Mother's birthplace?" "Sure," said the old man. "In what part of Boston did you live?" "Hyde Park," was the answer. "Did you ever know Horace Sears?" asked Benny. "Sure," said he,

"H. H. Sears." "Or Dan Ford?" "He was captain of my company," said the old chap. "Or J. Leonard Barney?" "Jim Barney?" "Sure!" "Or John Leonard Sanborn?" "He was my brother," said the old one. This man's name is Walter Sanborn, and he has a fine son named Jack. But the only memory he had of our Jack was: "I licked him one day. He was heavier than I was, but I was stronger and could dance rings around him." Small world!

Benny's son Louis, president of Colorado College, is very happy there, and Benny's other son, Roger, also in Honolulu, is so busy on construction-planning and executing that he now employs six draftsmen and needs more in handling some 27 projects he now has in the mill.

Margaret and Dr. Rodney Sanborn moved north from their winter home at Miami Shores on April 19, having stayed south longer than usual because of the poor weather we have had in the North, when we should have been having fine spring weather. Helen and WarrenKendall are still among the most active members of the class. Recently they spent a threeday stretch in the old locale of Washington, where among other events they attended a meeting, of the Society of the Cincinnatus, with headquarters in Anderson House on Massachusetts Ave. Prior to this, Warren handled a Dartmouth luncheon at Plaza Restaurant, Sarasota, Fla., attended by 22 Dartmouth men, the speaker being Dean Joseph McDonald. Sarasota seems to be quite popular with Dartmouth alumni. There's quite a growing colony of permanent Dartmouth residents there, meaning those who have established homes and occupy them for seven months or more each year. This meeting was the first of the Dartmouth Club of Sarasota.

The Frank Cavanaugh twins, Paul and Sarah, are in the buying field of Best & Company. Appreciation of Ed Skinner by the Adams Square Congregational Church, Worcester, as covered by our April notes, it seems, was only a beginning. On April 27, eighteen of the Girl Scouts of the church put in an appearance at the church office where Ed was working, presented him with a sum of money and a fine little speech in honor of his birthday, and wishing him and Sadie a pleasant vacation on their trip to the West Coast, starting May 2. Then on April 29 after the morning services, Ed and his wife were tendered a reception, and their minister, the Rev. C. E. Seale, for the congregation presented them with two sole leather suit cases, a white leather bag for Sadie as well as an orchid for her, and a pink carnation for Ed - also a check for one hundred dollars. Just shows what others think of our own treasurer Ed Skinner, who has faithfully served the Class of '99 through all the years.

For those who have not made a contribution to the Alumni Fund up to this time, please remember that you should get yours in before June 30.

It is with sadness that we report another passing in the '99 family, that of Margaret, wife of Hawley B. Chase. She had suffered a stroke on January 6, from which she never recovered. She died on April 17- The class was represented by Esther Parker and May and Kenneth Beal, the funeral being at Newport, N. H., burial at Stamford, Conn.

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