1899
In stepping in as Acting Class Agent and Acting Secretary Eddie Skinner and K. Beal realize how impossible it is, even together, to carry on as effectively as did Phil Winchester. But they will do their best, and they know that they can count on the same fine cooperation that. the Class always gave Phil.
The latest break in our numbers is the death of Sam Smith on February 3, in Pembroke. His two sisters will live on in the beautiful old home which they had reclaimed and occupied for the past eight years. Albert Galusha remembers how he and Sam roomed during their last year down at the old Thayer School building near the Fuller Farm. Bill Hutchinson writes that he would drive over from Norwich and study with them. Tim Lynch has been Sam's special chum on the Cape. Lute and AnneOakes also had called there. Tim and Sam, with the latter's sisters, were definitely planning to attend the 1958 Round-Up in Swampscott.
The very day the secretary was about to answer Ned Baldwin's letter, came news of his sudden death in Washington on February 11. Details in the May MAGAZINE.
It is good to know that Sadie Winchester plans to stay on in her pleasant home at 659 Allen St., Syracuse. Her three sisters ill New Jersey .ire closely in touch and much; of the time she has with her a faithful friend, a nurse, Miss Ann King. Sadie hopes that Ninety-Nine will not forget her, any more than she can forget them.
The Class was represented at the big February 5 dinner for "Hoppy" by Tom andElisabeth Whittier and Warren and HelenKendall, sitting at a table with old friends of '97, '98, '00, and '02. Also present was EdAllen's son Ted '33 with his wife Laura, and a hundred of his classmates.
During the rugged month of February ’99ers shivered with the rest. Joe Gannon, supposedly snug in West Hartford, met the omnipresent virus and missed out both on the Waldorf-Astoria dinner and on an intended trip to Florida. Hawley Chase made his annual pilgrimage to Miami but found it "hard to keep warm," even at the Varadero on Biscayne Blvd. And Mott Sargeant's Howland '32 wrote uncomplimentary things about "a raging east wind that is battering sleet on my office windows here at 51st and Broadway." Howie's mother Grace, by the way, is making satisfactory progress. She enjoyed the Christmas week that he and Myrna spent with her. When the last day of April dawns, look sharp towards Rockport, Mass., and see how Herb Rogers is celebrating his birthday. Sorry we missed Paul Osgood's 80th on February 26.
While most of '99 has been traveling up and down the East Coast, John Ash and his clan have been traveling the West Coast. His new stationery, given him by old employees at his Builders' Supply Co. in Corvallis, headlines him as "A Man of Leisure," and below engraves a picture of John, lolling along in his motor boat waiting for the rainbow to bite. Here's the recent schedule for this "man of leisure":
(1) Thanksgiving at Mabel's new 17-acre lot five miles out of Corvallis, near Philomath; also present - Homer's, John Jr.'s, and Martha's families. (2) Christmas at John Jr.'s with the big tree in John Sr.'s basement billiard room, and a truckload of presents for all and sundry. (3) Trip to Old Mexico, stop-overs at San Diego, etc. Then at Alice's in San Leandro on January 12, for a joint birthday celebration - John, a gay 87, and son-in-law Roy Smith, a youthful 47. More strength to you, John. We can all use some of your zest-for-living. His seventh great-grandchild, Larry Dean Ash, grandson of Homer, was born January 2, 1958.
At the time of this writing we still expect the 1958 Round-Up to be held at the New Ocean House in Swampscott, scene of '99 gatherings in '44, '45, '46, '47, '50, and '51. Forty-five attended the first year; the average attendance for the six years was 26. Promises to attend in '58are already coming in. The date: Saturday and Sunday, June 7 and 8. Details will be mailed out shortly. We hope that "Happy days are here again."
Acting Bradford, N. H.
Acting Class Agent, 11 Park View Drive, Worcester 5, Mass.
