1894

Thank you, Phil Marden, thank you very much, for what you told us about CHAT in the last issue. But you didn't tell us all by any manner of means. I am going to try my hand at it in a later issue. I don't feel quite up to it this afternoon.

First in importance. The ninetieth birthday of Dwight Hall will be celebrated in Dover, N. H., Friday, April 13. Every member of the family who can must be there.

My illness at home was interrupted in February by eight days at the Mount Auburn Hospital, here in Cambridge. The doctor alleged that I needed various tests and examinations.

My! - wasn't I glad to get home! The lady who married me, March 3, 1957, had already proved to be wholly successful as wife, home-keeper, secretary, chauffeur, and now she has moved up to "registered" nurse!

I have before me one of Arthur Stone's fine letters written in his classic hand-writing. How do you keep it up, Arthur, into your ninety-second year? He writes: "We are having a rugged winter here in Vermont, the coldest but one back in the 1890s that I remember. All through December and January temperatures at night are down to zero or much be10w.... Snowfalls right around here have been moderate but what came stayed on - hasn't melted away much — so we still have about one foot on level ground where it hasn't drifted. We are spending the winter here at Stonecrest, not going away South. The state and the town of Hartford will be fixing the final location of the North-South and East-West thruways, and in the spring I want plans of my property ready when they come. They have to cross my land somewhere.... I find it is not good for me to be too active and get over tired. We are feeling quite well if take things easy."

Don Colby's daughter, Margaret Williamson, writes from Norwood, Mass.: "I went to Claremont to celebrate (his 89th birthday) with him. He was looking very well and happy. ... All his Dartmouth associations have always meant so much to him, and that means '94, of course. He doesn't get out much in the winter time but he does enjoy his TV and reading."

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St. Cambridge 38, Mass.

Class Agent, 18 Center St., Nutley, N. J.