1906

We were saddened to hear of the loss of two classmates - Eric Kelly and Bob Wardwell, within a few days of each other. Eric was wintering again in Youngtown, Ariz., where he and Margaret were having fun with their paper, the Desert News, whose masthead bore the appropriate words "Vox Clamantis In Deserto." Bob was visiting one of his sons in Ohio. We here want to pay tribute to these fine and able men who had lived full and interesting lives.

Your reporter has been asked to swing for the Secretary while he is taking a well-earned rest. Ned and Eleanor have gone by cargo ship to Valparaiso, Chile; will fly across the Andes; and sail on another freighter along the east coast of South America, taking a good leisurely two months. With all that time they should have gone around The Horn - and what a story that would have been.

1906's prize travelers, Helen and Charlie Howard, are spending the winter on the Spanish Main, in Trinidad, Tobago, and the Barbados, fighting pirates (of some sort anyway) no doubt.

Then good old Bill Page, and, with the same qualifications, Con Chellis, and maybe a lot more that have not told us, are wintering in Florida with their wives. However, at times the papers report the temperature down there as 38° while we up North are "sweltering" in 38° weather. Sometimes it's hard to win.

We have seen Ralph Fitts and Carl Warton lately - both living up on Beacon Hill, Boston, and taking it easy, and we heard from the good Doctor Bill Bodwell too, and his name is still on the door.

With so many of us in the leisure class it's nice to report that Harvey Whittemore is busy every day at his greenhouses in Waltham his mind, hands, and feet moving swiftly - and Harvey's words come fast, too. Norm Russell continues to head up an investment trust in Boston, while Walter Powers keeps up his active practice of the law, with kayak paddling on the side. Warner White has returned to the wars, having been drafted in New York to run the business of a former associate who had died.

Gertrude Smith, Ephraim John's widow, writes of her five grandsons. The oldest is a student at Centenary College, La., but there is hope that the next two boys, who are in Vermont Academy just a hair below Hanover,

may see the light.

Secretary, go Harrison Ave. New Canaan, Conn.

Treasurer, 9 Pond St., Newburyport, Mass.