1905
Chet Lawrence lost his car and a few other things by fire last fall. However, the loss was covered by insurance.
Bea and Andy MacMillan's address through Mar. 15 will be Clearwater Beach Hotel, Clearwater, Fla. Also through February and March Jane and Roger Brown will be at Anna Maria, Fla. They hope to see many of our '05 men during their stay there. In contrast, Ethel and Huston Lillard were registered at Hanover Inn at the Christmas season.
Royal Parkinson appears to be much too busy to get away to the Sunny South. In recent weeks he was commuting between Boston and North Adams, Mass. (and presumably also Newtonville) as an industrial adviser. Specifically, he had a labor relations assignment for the Sprague Electrical Co. in which he achieved success for the company. I understand that when the plane or train service didn't meet his requirements he fell back on taxi service (at the company's expense, I trust!).
Early in the year Allen Graves was laid up with bursitis of the left hip. At last account he was taking a deserved rest from his useful life as a city doctor. We hope he will have made a good recovery long before this item appears in print.
From Valley Center, . California, comes word from Max Cook that he and his wife were located there right at the base of Palomar Mountain, famous for. its observatory. In that beautiful .country with its wonderfully clear air they' were, hoping . that his wife's health Would improve. Incidentally, they are the proud great-grandparents of five young hopefuls.
An interesting letter from Ralph Knight discloses an excursion of discovery that he has been making into his wife's family and his own." Rather than attempt written histories of the Andrews and Knights, he struck upon the idea of composing a pictorial "Family History." In the search for material for this work, he has amassed about 10,000 negatives, taken by himself, of old paintings, daguerreotypes, tintypes and photographs. This should prove to be a very interesting and historically valuable record going back to early colonial days.
As to Ralph's present status, he writes, "It remains about the same. I live alone with Sambo, a taciturn but faithful pal....We enjoyed our usual September fishing at Kennebago and then I parked Sambo in a ken- nel and drove alone to Virginia to visit my daughter." Aside from some dental trouble, Ralph seems to have been in good health and, to judge by his weaving into his letter such words as "chrematistics" and "Halieuticus," he has not forgotten his Greek. The accompanying photograph shows Ralph and Sambo with an unnamed fish.
Sliver Hatch has called your attention to the color picture in the January 5 copy of the Saturday Evening Post, wherein C. C. Hills and Isabel are obviously enjoying them selves at a typical church supper in a small town in Vermont. If you haven't seen it, look it up. You'll enjoy it.
Word has recently reached me that the Oscar Gilberts spent two months last summer in Scotland and England. They are staying in Exeter this winter instead of going to Florida.
Ralph Knight '05 on Kennebago Lake in September with Sambo, who sports the latest in canine wear for rainy weather.
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