1902

Every member of our class will feel deeply the sorrow that I do to know that our grand friend and class secretary, Arba Irvin, has been seriously ill. He underwent an extensive intestinal operation, Dec. 4, and complications necessitated a second operation. We do hope we can report next month on his steady recovery.

Your old secretary is, perforce, back on the job with 6 days to write these notes. Since I have retired and have no secretary and no typewriter - couldn't use one if I had it — it is not easy. I therefore beg you or your wives to drop me a line. Most of you move about a bit. Tell me of your little or big journeys.

We have many peripatetics in 1902. Our President, "Wattie," has seen much of the world; - lived and taught on the Bosporus in Turkey, edited a medical paper during World War I in Paris, been on a torpedoed ship and experienced a fire at sea, run a boys' camp in New Hampshire, and is now housing and helping foreign students at Dartmouth, that they may like the American ways of life.

Undoubtedly "Duckie" Drake is our grestest estperipatetic'. As President of Gulf Oil, he traveled the World. Few people could boast of being a dinner guest of a Caliph of Kuwait and from "Duckie's" description, few would wish to be. But since his partial retirement "Duckie" has really flitted. Year before last he went on a world cruise. Last fall he spent in the high spots of Europe. He says he took the works at Baden-Baden and lost 10 lbs., but gained it all back in the cafes of Vienna and Paris. Right now he is doing Africa, the Canary Islands, Portugal and Spain.

Our greatest teaching peripatetic is Julius Arthur Brown. Far and wide has he taught, from Beirut, Lebanon, to Jacksonville, Fla., to Waterville, Me.

A bulletin from Colby College, Waterville, Me., says: "Colby College will offer a fifteen weeks' television course on Astronomy, taught by Julius Arthur Brown, former director of the Observatory at the American University, Beirut, Lebanon. It is a pleasure to present a telecourse by this distinguished astronomer and astrophysicist. Professor Brown was appointed to Colby faculty last fall as visiting Professor of Physics. In addition to his years 1909-1945 at the American University he was research asst. in astrophysics at the Yerkes Observatory, Chicago, and the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California."

Acting Secretary, 19 Channel Rd., S. Portland, Me.

Treasurer, 18 Lafayette Circle, Wellesley 81, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,