1999

Holiday greetings to all '99ers, at home and on winter journeys. Look for more extended greetings in a December Class Newsletter. Greetings also, some belated, to those blest with birthdays, recent and to come: Eva (Mrs. Guy E.) Speare in October; in November, Amy (Mrs. Dan Ford), Charlie Adams, Joe Gannon, Bert Boston, Al Galusha, Leon Martin; and in this month of December, Joe Hobbs, Montie Fuller, Fred Crolius, and Ed Allen. Sounds almost unanimous! And one more special greeting, a welcome home to Grace (Mrs. Wesley W.) Jordan after a lengthy stay in Mary Hitchcock.

The group picture taken on the steps of Middle Mass. showed about sixty of the 120 who were actually present at the June Reunion. If any who secured a copy from the David Pierce Studio or saw it in the October MAGAZINE, can't identify some of those present, please drop a line to the secretary. He'll send a diagram numbered according to the positions occupied by those who looked into the camera.

A notable event on October-25 in Plymouth was a memorial convocation at the Teachers College in honor of Ernest Silver. Charlie Widmayer has kindly included in this issue part of an address by Eva Speare on that occasion. To help make room for this, we'll treat the remaining items somewhat briefly; you may look for. considerably more detail on each of them in the December newsletter.

Two of our birthday boys have moved southward: Fod Martin from Union, Me., to South Portland, to spend the winter with his nephew at 36 Bodge St.; and Charlie and Mary Adams have gone from Keene to their regular trailer headquarters at Daytona Beach, with a stop-over in early November at son Herbert's in Asheville, N. C.

Two deaths, a day apart, give us real sadness to announce: October 15, in the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Md„ Stanton Brown, 43, son of Nelson P. and Margaret Tucker Brown, cutting short a diplomatic career of great promise; he leaves his widow and three small children. October 16, in South Lancaster, Mass., Dorothy A. Fifield, 56, wife of Clifford Fifield, besides whom she leaves three sons, one in active service in Germany.

On a more joyful note, two other events. On October 27, Thomas Tupper and Elisabeth Whittier celebrated their Golden Wedding at their new home on Peconic Boulevard, Mattituck, N. Y. And last September, Lillia (Mrs. Frank A.) Musgrove's granddaughter, Jean Musgrove Pickering, fourteen, received notice of "Honorable Mention" in the national finals of the junior high school essay contest sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her subject was the Life of Theodore Roosevelt.

Secretary, Newbury Rd., Bradford, N. H.

Treasurer,22 Vera St., W. Hartford 7, Conn.