1899

In the October MAGAZINE memorial section Was '99's brief tribute to Charlie Adams; in the September Newsletter there was space for a longer, more personal story. Next month will appear our tribute to Fred Crolius, who died August 25; in the Christmas Newsletter, likewise, will be a fuller account of our "Fritz."

Three other deaths in the '99 Family have to be recorded. Phil Winchester's widow Sarah (or as her friends knew her, "Sadie") passed away suddenly in Middletown Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y. August 30. Besides her stepson, Robert Winchester '28 of Yardley, Penna., she left three sisters in New Jersey and Florida. On September 10, Harriet M. Cilley died at the age of 91 in Campton, N. H. She had been a lifetime friend of George Clark and his family, living at their invitation for many years across the road from the Clarkland mansion, and during the latter part of George's life caring for him like a devoted older sister. A curious coincidence: George himself died in December '57, just four days after Phil went; and now Phil's Sadie has gone just eleven days before Harriet Cilley, who went, in fact, on George's 83rd birthday. Charlie Risley's widow Mary died December 14 last (the same date as Wesley Jordan's widow Grace) but the death was tardily reported. We shall say more in our Christmas Newsletter about these three women of '99.

The Dartmouth Convocation September 8-10 on "The Great Issues of Modern Medicine" was attended by several '99ers: Warren and Helen Kendall (fresh from a summer of Kennebunk Beach, entertaining of friends and family - except son Gordon, busy as new Assistant to the Chief Mechanical Officer of the Atlantic Coast Line), Rodney Sanborn (after a summer of entertaining medical friends at Stonywall in Ossipee, and garnering prizes for a rose display at the Tamworth Flower Show), and Hawley Chase, accompanied by his cousin, Mrs. Eugenia Farmer.

November opens with Amy (Mrs. Daniel) Ford's 85th birthday; "then follow the birthday of Maurice Dickey's daughter Olive Weston, and the 19th wedding anniversary of Dave Storrs' daughter, Phoebe Stebbins, both on National Election Day, Nov. 8. Next is Bert Boston '86, on November 21, Al Galusha on the 23rd and Leon Martin on the 28th, both 83, while Bert's son Howard and Joe Gannon's grandson, Donald Temple, are also both one year older on that date. Joe, however, is the Grand-Daddy November Birthday Cake-Eater, on the 17th, not because he'll be a ripe and lively 87, but because daughter Genevieve and her husband Winter Read and Don Temple's brother Jimmy (the latter now busy at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Ill.) are also all Thanksgiving month celebrants. Just for some frosting on the cake: Jim Walker's wife Lulu Plummer was born November 11 (Phoebe Storrs Stebbins' birthday too), and Jim's and Lulu's granddaughter, Judy Decato, first saw roast turkey on November 24, which in 1960 is also THE DAY. So though we began this column with the passing of some of our number, we are ending it with this news of Birthdays and more Birthdays that will keep our '99 ranks still marching when we elder trainees have disappeared over the horizon.

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

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