1899

Class Reunion—The 60th Hanover—June 12, 13, 14

About ten days ago, '99ers should have received their February Newsletter with its outline of events at our 60th June 12, 13, 14. In the next three months save your strength and save your shekels. Then we'll meet you in Hanover. No separate Round-Up this year. The Reunion's the Round-Up!

Good news of Eddie Skinner's continued improvement. He's the Perpetual Round-Up Boy, - his birthday March 2 has often been the actual Round-Up date, —83 this year. Yes, and Louis Benezet 81 on the 21st. Good news too from Rodney and Margaret Sanborn, -she's so much better that they are spending the winter at Miami Shores after all.

Let's skip to Texas. We still have a place in the sun in the Lone Star State. Once Ninety-Nine held outposts in our country's four corners: Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest. The death in 1932 of "Doc" Norton, however, in San Antonio, of Willis Hodgkins in Arizona in 1940, and of Art Kimball in 1953 in Pasadena swept away our anchor in the Southwest. But we've located the seven Norton children, five of them still in Texas. These seven with their own 18 children and eight grandchildren lift the total of Doc's living descendants to 33, a figure with which we now invite Jack Ash and Art Wiggin to compete statistically.

There are five deaths to record, three of them long unreported: (1) Horace Sears' widow, Helen (Rogers), in Gales Ferry, Conn., in April, 1955; (2) Charles ("Mun")Folsom's widow, Mary (Cronan), in Sutton, N. H., Aug. 25, 1956; (3) later that year, Albert Tootell's younger son, Tom, was killed in an accident, leaving his wife and two children still living in Post Falls, Idaho; (4) Edward ("Weary") Wardle's widow, Maude (Wilkins), died in Maryland at the home o£ their daughter, Gratia Woods, on Jan. 4, 1959; (5) and one week later in Montpelier, Vt., Donald J. Loukes, husband of John H. DuBois' daughter Margaret, died. More details of the above appeared in the Feb. Newsletter. We are particularly fortunate to have been able to print there the account by Rosemary Wardle Knox of her mother's life way back to the days when she and Weary first met. Ask some '99er to show you that account.

We close with three recent glimpses of families in the active Class Fellowship: (1) Robert Ballard Tootell, older son of Albert, turns up in Washington, D. C., Governor of the Farm Credit Administration, where he and his wife Helen have lived since April 1954. (2) Albert Galusha has retired at 81 from his lifelong absorption in the progressive development of gas engines, engines now in ever-increasing demand on every continent. Albert, we salute you! (3) Through the courtesy of the town clerk of Epping, N. H., we have traced the son of Harry Ladd. Karl is happily located in South Berwick, Me., with his wife Florence and 13-year-old Nancy. Karl has been with General Electric since 1940 in charge of Specialist Education, Health and Safety in the Meter Dept. of the Somersworth, N. H., plant. Three sisters of Karl's father and one brother still live in Epping at ages from 78 to 96. The town clerk himself, D. Watson Ladd, is a second cousin. Full recent news of the three families above is also in that newsletter.

Thus, with sincere sadness for the friends who have left us, and with warm greetings to those who come forward to take their places, we advance toward June 12, 13, 14 and '99's Sixtieth in Hanover.

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

Treasurer, 11 Park View Drive, Worcester 5, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,