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April birthday greetings to Herb Rogers, our only member to have put in an appearance in that month of spring. Now add to '99's Florida visitors this past winter, and reported in March, the name of Hawley Chase, who set out for there about the middle of February, tho we have had no advice as to his destination or plans.

If you wish to see what it was in. the January issue of the MAGAZINE to which I made reference in the first line of my January 9 letter, look on page 40 of that issue. The paragraph at the bottom of that page under the '02 notes is the paragraph in question. It just strayed from the fold and I discovered it only after I had received my belated copy of the January MAGAZINE.

Sadly I have to report the passing of Mrs. Dave Storrs at Hanover on February 15. She had a surgical at Mary Hitchcock Hospital early last winter, but it failed to help. The Class extends deepest sympathy to the family.

A letter from Leon Woodman, retired, head, of the Physics Dept. at Missouri School of Mines, Rolla, Mo., tells of a serious illness that struck him in the fall of '55. He was stricken in August of that year while at his daughter's home at Charleston, W. Va., returned home at once, and entered the Rolla Clinic where it was found that he was suffering from a very serious heart condition. Last summer fluid began to collect in all of his muscular tissues, necessitating his giving up all of his teaching which he had continued even after his retirement. This January he was in hospital for nearly three weeks and they just sweat it out of him. He says he now feels like a new man, with his weight 134 pounds as against 185 pounds he had carried for about 30 years. He's more like the weight we knew him at in college days. On February 12 the student body, thru the Student Council, honored Leon with a convocation for his outstanding services to the school in the Physics Department, as teacher and Chairman of the Department from 1919 to 1948, and then continuing on till into 1956. Thirty-seven years is a long time to serve one institution. He was presented with a hy-fi set along with a purse of $50.00 for the purchase of records. Leon was unable to be present, but acceptance was made by his son.

More news would be here if you d write about your comings and goings more than some of you do.

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