1899

May birthday greetings to Ralph Hawkes, Tom Whittier, Warren Kendall, and Tim Lynch, all of whom have now passed their Both milestones. There are only three others of remaining classmates, Beal, Benezet, and Osgood, who are still short of that mark.

At long last George Clark's house at Plymouth, N. H., is being wired for electricity; long time primitive lighting there, as many of us who have visited him there can well remember, climbing the stairs at bedtime with lighted candles. Jack Ash made a safe return home to Corvallis, Ore., after seeking warmer climes in Arizona and New Mexico and now reports the arrival of a fifth great-grandson, born to granddaughter Frances Beverly (Ash) Heine on January 13, name Blaine Alan Heine. Arrived too late to get him in on Jack's birthday celebration on January 12, so Jack says they had to give the new arrival a celebration of his own. According to the record, this puts Jack's total descendants at 26. At last accounts Bill Wiggin's total was 24.

Joe Gannon drove up to East Swansey for a weekend in March. That's where he taught school freshman year. The song ran something like this: "When pretty girls their school did lack, Jimmy and Joe came peerading back, just because they had nothing else to do." Bill Cunningham has started a collection for the Boston College Stadium Building Fund to provide a memorial to our old classmate "Cav, the Iron Major." Here's hoping he'll be most successful in his efforts. Warren Kendall has been very active in starting a Dartmouth Club at Sarasota, Fla. Seems as though Warren can't find enough to do, for he's always taking on something more. Dave Parker's widow, Esther, and her sister, Ruth, spent a week in March at the King Cole Motel, Hollywood Beach, Fla., expecting to return north about April 8. By this time Rodney Sanborn will have hied north from his winter home at Miami Shores, Fla., and then it won't be long till "Stoneywall" will be seeing him and Margaret. Rodney reports seeing Hawley Chase in March. Things haven't been too good this month of March at "P" Winchester's, for wife, Sadie, was a pretty sick girl. Started with a throat condition and wound up with penicillin poisoning. Four weeks in bed is a long time for her to be laid up.

Plans for the 57th Roundup of the Class, this time at Hanover, are progressing and it is hoped for an attendance even better than we have been having in Boston on the first Saturday nights in March. Understand that March 2 this year gave Boston a bad break as to weather. So let's all make our plans for Arcady on June 10. Letters as to details will be going out at about the time this reaches you.

And in the meantime, to those of you who haven't made your contributions to this year's Alumni Fund, please let's get it in and do our best.

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