1911

The first order of business is a very grateful thank-you to the great number of good classmates and widows who helped make Christmas a Merry one with their Holiday Greetings and Good Wishes. It was particularly gratifying to get the little personal messages, 'many of which you may also share. So, here it is "THANK-YOU."

Good news from Troy Parker, who writes: "Things go well with Janet and me. Our three weeks' session at Mayo's seem to have relieved us of our various miseries. A great institution and you do get your money's worth.... In the Gulch we have been cursed by the worst weather this country has ever experienced. Extreme lows, way below normal and a surplus of unseasonal snows. My effort to complete a soil conservation project has been handicapped no end, so that now I almost despair of getting it completed this winter. The boys seem to hesitate about working the big dozers at fifteen below, and windy.... Daughter Ellen has moved her family to Chapel Hill, N. C., where her doctor husband is associated with the hospital. We will follow her just as soon as we can escape, and right willingly I assure you."

Eben Holden's address, or at least the one that he leaves behind him, is 11 Ricker Park, Portland, Me. Doris says that they are debating whether to go to Barbados or Mexico, but probably will wind up in Clearwater, Fla.

It was a sad Christmas for the Uline family. Here is Marion's report: "In January 1959, our younger son David, had a stroke just three days after his thirty-third birthday.... His right side was completely paralyzed and he lost the gift of speaking and writing. After four months in the hospital he learned to walk. With therapy he is gaining some of the use of his right arm and hand. He is learning to write with his other hand and although his speech is coming slowly, it is improving. His courage is tremendous." Marion continues to keep the home at 316 Middlesex Road, Buffalo, N. Y.

Ben Ayers' son, Kim '39 and family are being sent by his firm in Houston, Tex., to Teheran, Iran, for two years.

Friends of the Goodings will be pleased to know that their daughter Mary had improved sufficiently to be able to attend the Dartmouth-Princeton game last fall.

Grace Chamberlain is still confined to her home at 16 Pine St., Winchester, Mass. I am sure she and Ed would enjoy hearing from you or even better seeing you if you should be in the neighborhood.

There is further confirmation of the dry California summer. Cora Taylor is wishing for some rain to wash away the smog, and snow for the Olympics. Her mother, in her ninety-eighth year, still receives excellent care at Cora's old home which now is a home for old people. Cora adds "Yes, I am looking forward to fun in '61, so hope to see you there."

This same sentiment is being expressed by many of our 1911 widows. From Helen Russell comes this hope, "If possible I'd like to attend the get-together of the class next year." Of her trip to Europe with her sister Margaret last summer, she writes: "It was a wonderful experience. If governments hate the Americans, the peoples of Italy, Switzerland, France, England, and Scotland extended the hand of friendship to us." She delights in her five grandchildren. Roberta, with the two sets of twins (three sons and one daughter) are living at an air base in South Carolina. Margaret, the last to be married, has a year-old daughter and is living in Cincinnati, and Evelyn and her husband are in Pitman, N. J.

Here is a double promise from Ruth Backus. She will try to be at Whitefield next June, and anyway she will be at the Fiftieth.

King Moses liked Bendy Griswold's letter but he cannot understand how he can live on an Arctic Peninsular in Maine without having the blood of a polar bear. He gives us news of another classmate in these terms: "Another rediscovered classmate I'm in touch with is William Henry Pearse, an intimate of mine in college. I have not heard from him in too long, now in his quasi-retirement after several decades as Superintendent of Schools in Beacon, N. Y. He remains a partner in the leading law firm of Dutchess County, N. Y. (F.D.R.'s old bailiwick, you know). Bill Pearse had the best mind in our class I thought."

Sam Aronowitz on November 14, was honored for his "long and distinguished" service to Brandeis University at the third annual Capital District meeting of Brandeis University Friends. Sam has been a civic leader in the Capital District many years and identified with Brandeis since its inception in 1948. He has played a key role in the school's development, is a Fellow at the university, and is part of an advisory group selected from business and professional leaders throughout the country who have maintained close interest in the school. . . . Sam is counsel and board member of the National Commercial Bank and Trust Co., and is on the executive and trust committees. He is also associated with the City and County Savings Bank, the Tri-City Broadcasting Co., and the Midland Extract Corporation. He also practices law occasionally!

It is not hard to envy Chet Jenkins during the coming months. This is what he will be doing. "On February 2, I leave New York for a cruise in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. About Feb. 16, you can think of me riding a camel around the Pyramids in Egypt, then flying to Jerusalem in Jordan and walking the Via Dolorosa (Way of the Cross) to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Mt. Calvary. For a change a week later I'll be trying to see what I can in Odessa and Yalta in Russia. Later I'll have four and a half days to examine the ruins of the Ancient World in Greece and hope to spend 34 days in Italy and parts of Central Europe."

Maybe Ken Ballou will have some time for 1911 now, as this is how he describes his situation. "Last August on the day I became an old duffer of 71 years, I came to the conclusion I had had enough of the chain restaurant business and decided then and there to retire. So here I am, retired. Or, perhaps I should say semi-retired for the Waldorf System seems to want me at my old office at least one day a week."

Marion Agry is happily situated in the Blind Brook Lodge in Rye, N. Y., where she is near Warren Jr. and his family. This year she is going to fill in the time between Delray and Sea Island with a cruise to the Caribbean out of Port Everglades.

The latest word from Mike Carmichael is from "Court of Ivy" Trailer Park, Wickenburg, Ariz.

Following the transcription of these notes the Burleighs will be picking up a leisurely trail for Clearwater, Fla., and will hope to see many of you there. There is a new telephone number, 33-2175.

Secretary, 1 Webster Terrace Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, Seaside Ave., Saco, Me.