1902

This morning a note came from "P" Winchester, secretary of '99, which explains paragraph seven in our notes for January. In some unknown way this paragraph was lifted from the notes of '99 and landed in the notes of 1902. The fact that I received no communication from a member of our class regarding this matter leads me to wonder if our class members ever read our notes. At any rate, I am happy that the mistake was made since it enabled me to have a letter from "P." Bless him!

Last week came a letter from Karl Brackett written from the old address in Watertown, Mass. He says they are there to escape the cold northern winter in Thornton, N. H. He adds that this is a laugh as they have had two cold spells, lasting about a week each, with temperatures of ten to twelve degrees below zero. He goes on to add that that is better than the thirty-eight to forty degrees below at their place at Thornton. "Does that make you shiver?" he asks. Boy! It certainly does. Here the frost has not touched our flowers.

Karl says that his younger grandson is at a college preparatory school, South Kent, in Connecticut, the older is a sophomore at Dartmouth but is spending the year at Grenoble University in France. He will be back in Hanover "this fall." That means he is back in Hanover now, I presume. Karl and his wife will return to Thornton in March. They are planning to attend the reunion in June.

A letter from the Alumni Secretary informs us that they have recently learned that Lyman F. Norton died on July 7, 1943, in Dover, N. H. I have no recollection of him and the Alumni Secretary says that he has never had any word from him. I should be interested to hear from any classmate who knows anything of him.

Frank Drake writes that he has learned through correspondence with Frank Bunker's son-in-law, John R. Bailey, of West Brookfield, Mass., that in 1953 Frank suffered from a severe blow on the head and his wife was killed in an automobile accident. Never fully recovered, he has steadily gotten worse until now he has lost coordination between brain and speech, as well as understanding. He seems to recognize people he has known, but cannot call them by name or continue a conversation. He lives in the Bailey family. His address is Box 462, West Brookfield, Mass. If any classmate lives near Frank I should be glad to hear from him telling more of our classmate's condition. Mr. Bailey closes his letter to Frank Drake with this statement, "He just won't be able to appear at the reunion."

Secretary, 210 Columbus Ave., Coronado Station, New Smyrna Beach, Fla.

Class A vent, 35 Du Bois St., Noroton, Conn.