1899

Saturday, May si, is a fit sequel to '99's 60th in Hanover, for at the University Club, Boston, we then celebrate our 60th Annual Round-Up. SOCIAL HOUR AT NOON. Lunch at 1:00. All welcome. Let Joe Gannon know.

A friendly salute from all of us in '99 to all of you in '00! Our affectionate wishes for a soul-satisfying 60th in Hanover.

A friendly salute also to our own May Birthday Boys: Ralph Hawkes, 84 on the 9th, - latest card showed Blanche and him on big Luckenbach freighter nearing Panama Canal, "wonderful lazy trip." Tom Whittier, 83, on the 17th. Elisabeth writes, "Tom's much better. Has been walking the deck on our winter porch in Mattituck like one of his sea-going forebear captains." WarrenKendall, 83 on the 22nd, following Helen's and his 55th wedding celebration on the 11th. Warren's rallying call for the Alumni Fund was in last month's newsletter. TimLynch, 85 on the 25th. Now back home at his Cotuit "Pinehurst on the Cape."

Children next: Gordon Gerould's daughter, Sylvia Loughnan, teaches remedial reading in Hannah More Academy, Reisterstown, Md. Brother Christopher handles public relations in Chase National Bank, New York. Jerry's brother John '90 still on Occum Ridge; sister Marion Brophy in West Medford; brother Leonard '06 in Pittsburgh. Harry Ladd's son Karl reports his wife Florence gradually recovering from an auto accident, both legs broken. In Epping, Harry's sister Bernice Morris, '79, "baby of the family," cares for invalid husband; sister Nell Fisher, '97, and brother "Plum," 93. Sister Clara Spinney, 94, lives nearby. Ned Baldwin's daughter Marion, wife of Commander Raymond Tryon, Coast Geodetic Survey, Alexandria, has lived in 48 of the United States. Both won a B.S. at University of Vermont. Daughter Lianne majoring in Physics and Math at Virginia Polytechnic. Louis Benezet's daughter Genevieve Butterfield was recently appointed by Yale Library "Curator of Prints" at Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, Conn. Wilmarth Lewis, owner of this notable Horace Walpole Collection, lives near the Butterfields. Bill Wiggin's son Arthur, nineteen, is "operating technician on Aircraft Carrier Wasp, responsible from dawn to dusk for preparing surgical instruments. Keeping this big lady at razor-sharp readiness at all times is a tall task."

Grandchildren next: Dick Sherman, son of Bill Atwood's daughter Martha, training aboard ship since graduating from Maritime Academy, has been accepted by U.S.N. Reserves. Will be in Turkey next Christmas. Caroline Hill Eastman, daughter of Walter and Florence Eastman's Jerome, is on a year's trip around the world under International School of America auspices: 27 students and teachers, four-engine planes, thirteen countries Orient, Europe, Africa, America. Wheaton College in fall. Brother Allen, sixteen, one of thirty Wrentham, Mass., students chosen for January-February exchange visits with Florida's Mantee County High School. Montie and Martha Fuller's son Melville's daughter Nancy, high school valedictorian last June, given a four-year scholarship by Dresser Products, besides three other awards, now on Dean's list at University of Massachusetts. Walter Jr., son of Frank and Pearl Staley's Walter, Oklahoma University P.G., is now training for equestrian Olympics in Rome next summer. He's captain of team, placed third in this event in Helsinki in 1956.

Recent addition to '99's great-grandchildren: Elmer and Mabel Woodman's first; two more to John Ash (Jack now has 29 living descendants); two for Arthur Hopkins; five step-great-grandchildren for Jack Sanborn. No time now to check total '99's living descendants - still climbing!

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