1894

I will let Eddie Grover take the right of the line in this column. Eddie writes about Gibbon: "That was sad news that I got the other day from C. C. Gib and I were together for two years in St. Johnsbury's Academy and four years at Dartmouth. We roomed together in No. 9 Reed, our sophomore and junior years. He paid me 15¢ an hour to read his lessons to him for four years. He got Phi Beta Kappa, and I got by! He was a real hero! I never heard a word of complaint, and I can hear his laugh even yet! He also writes about himself from his summer home, Green Gables, Hendersonville, N. C.: "Time is catching up with me as I know it is with you, but I am able to keep busy here, painting, carpentering (I made a darn good table this summer) and tinkering about the place. We put in two scenic windows in our living room and dining room. (Eddie likes Ike as follows - Ed. note.) I hope you are all going to vote for Eisenhower this fall. I was thrilled by his acceptance speech and sat down and wrote the enclosed card." (This will be published in the next issue - Ed.)

Mrs. Victor Spooner wrote from a hospital bed of her inability to attend the round up in October. With great pluck she got up from bed and flew from Portland, Maine, to Florida, which a friend of hers describes as "a considerable feat in itself for one so frail." The friend goes on to say "during the thirty odd years that I have known her, her life has been one long life of uncomplaining and undisgusting invalidism." She died at Winter Park, Saturday, November 10. The funeral services were held at her summer home in North Bridgton, Maine, the following Wednesday. It will be remembered that she and Victor had been summer residents here for fifty odd years where he was the original owner of Long Lake Lodge, Summer School for Boys.

Travel Notes: Elizabeth Jenks started on a Mediterranean cruise November 29. Before leaving, she had done some repairing of the family's residence, including the building of a garage, and she says, "I think it will be a good place to visit if any of you are hereabouts."

Mrs. Bud Lyon says, "I am looking forward (??) to another flight to St. Louis to welcome the advent of great-grandchild #5 the latter part of January."

A bronze bust of the late Dr. Fred Lewis Pattee '88, pioneer teacher of American literature, has been placed in the Pattee Library at The Pennsylvania State University.

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