1899
The testimonial to Herbert Watson appeared in the "In Memoriara" section o£ the January issue. By a printer's error it was printed under "1898" instead of "1899." An April newsletter will add some personal things about Herb for which there is no room in the MAGAZINE. For many years Herb and Agnes have been among the most faithful attendants at Class gatherings.
In Hanover on December 14, Grace (Mrs. Wesley W.) Jordan died after a long illness. We had hopefully noted in the December issue her release from Mary Hitchcock after an operation, but recovery proved impossible. As Grace Edith Colby, with a long Plainfield background, she married Wesley December 17, 1910, in Aberdeen, S. D. His family also was from Plainfield, and both he and Grace had attended Kimball Union Academy. After ten years in the mid-West where their two daughters, Barbara Colby and Winifred Ella, were born, the family returned to "farm it" in Plainfield, but moved in 1937 to Hanover. There in 1940 Wesley died. Barbara later married Philip Trowbridge and lives with him and their two daughters in Wellesley Hills. Winifred remained with her mother and is still actively employed at Mary Hitchcock. Grace's death occurred three days before her 49th wedding anniversary, and twelve before her 79th birthday. In the April newsletter we plan to report some personal details not now available. December 16, Lillia (Mrs. Frank A.) Musgrove attended both the service for Grace in the White Church, and also the service in Lebanon for John E. Cassin, '94's oldest survivor, at which Rev. Charles C. Merrill, Class secretary, assisted.
Another '99 loss: Elsie Weissbrod (Mrs. Ralph W. Payne) died in Greenfield, Mass., last July 20 at the Franklin County Public Hospital. There were no children, but there is a sister, Mrs. Bertha W. Kellogg, surviving in Springfield from whom we hope to learn more details. All we know at present is that Elsie was a collector of antiques as Ralph was of stamps, and that both were enthusiastic about fishing. We also know that she continued Ralph's insurance business for some time after his death in 1948.
The secretary and his wife appreciate the many holiday greetings from the '99 Family, and wish them all as well as the bigger Dartmouth Family a very Happy New Year! Among the greetings were pictures: Amy (Mrs. Daniel Ford) in the front yard of her Sarasota home; three of Tom and ElisabethWhittier's thirteen grandsons; Lois and Art Batten's Bill, Fred, Jim; two second generation '99 journalistic families, - Walt and Milly Woodward, editors of the "Bainbridge Review," Seattle, where Bones Woodward's column first appeared, "What the Old Man Says," and Jack and Eleanor (daughter of Maurice Dickey) Drysdale, editors of two Randolph and Bradford, Vt., weeklies; and the Ed Allen family of Ted, Laura and Deanna in Valhalla, N. Y.
In the April newsletter be watching for recent news from Sylvia Loughnan, daughter of Gordon Hall and Katherine FullertonGerould; Marion Tryon, daughter of Edward G. Baldwin; Carolyn Eastman, daughter of Walter and Florence Eastman's son Jerome; Ed and May Nye's son Dick and their grandson, Edward Fuchs; Louis T. Benezet, president of Colorado College, son of Louis P.and Genevieve Benezet. This newsletter will also again remind you of the '99 Round-Up Saturday, May 21, back at its old stand, the Boston University Club. Only three months away. BETTER MARK YOUR NEW 1960 CALENDAR NOW!
Secretary, Newbury Rd., Bradford, N. H.
Treasurer, 22 Vera St., W. Hartford 7, Conn.
