1899

The 58th Round-Up of '99 was held at the New Ocean House, Swampscott, Mass., June 7-8. Twenty-nine persons helped celebrate. The accompanying picture shows the 23 who were at the dinner Saturday night. Martha Sherman of Belfast loaned us two typed, illustrated volumes narrating the 1910 and 1913 mountain hikes of her dad Bill Atwood and "Uncle George" Clark. For one thing they took a good look at the Old Man of the Mountain. George: "That's a typical Yankee face." Bill, with a whiff of his pipe:

"It looks like the face of a man on lookout on a fishing schooner, with his sou'wester on, peering straight ahead through the mist at anything that might be in the way." George, for a reply, pointed at the little knobs and projections which certainly might suggest the visor, top and apron of a sou'wester. Martha herself on July 18 became a grandmother when her daughter Sandra had a baby boy, husky Walter Brown Power IV. Said the new great-grandmother, Helen Atwood, "How delighted Will would have been!"

Too late for the June MAGAZINE came word of Minnie Hoban's death May 18 in Gardner. For many years she conducted a millinery business in Gardner, Fitchburg, and Winchendon. Two sisters survive. She was a charter member of the Catholic Women's Club, and a past president of Sacred Heart Sodality. Good-bye to one more faithful pair, Owen and Minnie.

Roger Barney's new work is at Parishfield in Brighton, Mich. There, "Aunt Bertha" Fales died July 2. She was a longtime member of Jim's and Helen's family, and for these last eleven years of Roger's and Jane's. Of the four children, Alice is a Senior at St. Mary's-in-the-Mountains; Jim has four years more at St. Paul's. The Parishfield group "seek to renew the Church" by demonstrating that "every man in all his life may serve God faithfully by a meaningful ministry in the world, - in family, neighborhood, work, play, not just in Church and parish house activities." They find inspiration in writings like those of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "a leader of the German Confessional Church, who was executed just before liberation in 1945." In August the Barney station-wagon visited brother Wendell in Virginia, and Jane's sister and mother there and in South Carolina.

The Pageant Press has published Louis Benezet's "The Six Loves of Shake-Speare," a compact, fascinating discussion of the poet's 154 Sonnets. It undertakes to prove that their actual author was Edward, 17th Earl of Oxford, 1550-1604, notable figure of the Elizabethan period. This book represents only a fraction of Benny's research. He hopes later to publish his conclusions on the plays as well. Suggestion: (1) Read the book carefully, open-mindedly; (2) read the Sonnets; ](3) reread the book.

Miss Harriet M. Cilley, long • a part of Clarkland, is now with friends in Campton. She was 89 on Aug. 11. Her father worked for George's grandfather, Thomas Clark 11, who long ran an inn in West Andover till railroad competition threatened his tollroad income on the main route from Boston-Quebec. So in 1840 he bought Clarkland. For a time Miss Cilley's father then lived in South Lancaster, Mass., near Cliff Fifield's present home. Myron G. Clark '36 to whom George willed Clarkland died in 1950. Last July Myron's widow, Clara Smith Clark, was killed in an auto accident in East Lexington, Mass. Three sons survive: George A., Talbot S., and John C. Clark.

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