1899

With deep sadness we record the death of Louis Paul Benezet on May 2. He passed quietly in his sleep at the Maunalani Convalescent Hospital, Honolulu. Red roses at the service later from the Class expressed our sorrow and our sympathy for the family. A suitable memorial will appear in the July MAGAZINE.

The omission of the April newsletter has piled up news that must wait for a summer report. Please forgive the omissions and brevities in this June column. We hope to tell you of new faces among the younger '99ers at the May 20 Round-Up. And Warren, al- ready much encouraged by the progress of the Fund Drive, will be welcoming those checks right to the end of June, never mind how small.

Birthday greetings: May 9, Ralph Hawkes; 17, Tom Whittier; 22, Warren Kendall; 25, Tim Lynch, back in Cotuit; June 12, HawleyChase, home from Miami; Aug. 22, WillHutchinson, possibly then again in Pennsylvania. All these past the four-score mark, and still footing it cheerily. By the way, Ralph and Blanche spent some weeks in Florida, but returned to see the April 8 wedding of the first of their sixteen grandchildren, Judith Carol Tracy, in York Village. Other weddings, like this, to be reported later in detail: Ned Baldwin's granddaughter Lianne Tryon in Alexandria, April 15; BillWiggin's son Arthur Bill in Exeter, April 29; Louis Benezet's granddaughter, Joan Butterfield, in Farmington, Conn., June 24; and Warren Kendall's grandson William Thomas of Louisville, July 22. Happy days to all!

The long-planned Western trip of Warrenand Helen Kendall from mid-March to mid-April packed in business engagements and family visits, with many regretted losses of '99 contacts such as the entire clan of JohnAsh from California through Oregon to Alaska. This last is reserved for "next time." There were brief visits on Gordon and Virginia in their new Jacksonville home; Helen (Mrs. Willis B.) Hodgkins and family in Phoenix, and Bill and Lucile in Louisville after a 2500-mile ride from San Francisco to Chicago on the fabulous Vista Dome California Zephyr. Brief contacts too with Pearl (Mrs. Frank) Staley in San Mateo, Mabel (Mrs. Pitt F.) Drew, just returned from Hawaii, hellos by telephone to Alice (Mrs. Walter) Foss in San F. and Florence (Mrs. WalterR.) Eastman in Chicago. Major business in California was with Detroit friends back from Honolulu, and at the special dinner meeting of head class agents in San F.

Happily some recent news of sickness has been followed by word of improvement - thus with Laura (Mrs. Herbert S.) Rogers, Agnes (Mrs. Herbert L.) Watson, and JoeGannon, now at Ogunquit; also Robert Dickey (son of Maurice Dickey) recently moving from North Wilbraham to Sudbury, Mass.

In March we outlined Rodney Sanborn's projected itinerary through South America. Some actual highlights later, but today Rodney writes: "Each of numerous places had its own cherished cathedral. So too there was regularly some high hill or mountain overlooking the city, and often a striking monument of Christ or some saint. It was hardest to accustom myself to dinner at eight or nine. Latin Americans make a ceremonial event of this meal. I liked the food in Jamaica and on shipboard, but southward they smother their food with seasoned sauces till meats and fish all taste alike. Actually I lost nine pounds on the trip, but "Abbie" is taking care of that now in the delicious oldfashioned way she has. Back to Stonywall the end of April! But ten days ago "Sas" found snow all around the house."

Secretary, Newbury Rd., Bradford, N. H.

Class Agent, 1050 Hampton Rd., Sarasota, Fla.