1899

Two deaths of '99 men during October: William Loveland Hutchinson on the fifth, and Theobold Andrew Lynch on the twenty fourth, — our deep sympathy to family and friends. A memorial to Bill Hutch appears in this issue. One of Tim Lynch will appear in January. Tim died at Pinehurst, N.C., where he had arrived for his usual winter stay. By a strange conicidence Joe Gannon had also decided to spend the winter at Pinehurst with Tim. While discussing details with the manager of the Carolina by telephone, Joe learned of Tim's-death the day before.

A few of our comrades this month celebrate not only the perennial Twenty-fifth but some birthday dates of their own as well: Joe Hobbs on the ninth; Montie Fuller on the sixteenth (yes, Martha Fuller should have stepped into the limelight too in October, exactly two months before the mistletoe was hung), and Ed Allen on the twentythird.

Some members of the Class Family have seen a group of twenty snapshots taken at the 62nd Round-Up last July. The secretary will gladly lend them on request to others.

Elisabeth (Mrs. Thomas T.) Whittier now has one of her daughters within a mile of her in Mattituck, Long Island. Margaret ("Peg") Roache has sold her home in New Suffolk and moved into the old Whittier summer camp on the Bay. She has made a year-round home of it while retaining the delights of vacationing at the water front that the four daughters and their families have long enjoyed.

A delightful Bradford surprise in early October was a brief call from Anne (Mrs. Luther S.) Oakes. She and the lowan parents of daughter Betty's husband Dick Clarke flew fom the Mid-West to see the colorful wood scenes of New England. A short telephone call to the Warren Kendalls from Portland; an overnight stay at North Woodstock Inn, Vermont; glimpses in Hanover of Thayer Professor Bill Kimball and "Mary"; a hallway "Hello" to "Christina" and President Dickey; and regretful by-passing of Plymouth and Eva (Mrs. Guy E.) Speare and Gertrude (Mrs. Ernest L.) Silver; of Orford and Gertrude (Mrs. Ned W.) Warren '01; and of Manchester and Esther (Mrs. David W.) Parker. Anne's daughter Betty is now one block from her mother at 1819 Knox Ave. So., Minneapolis 3, while granddaughter Nancy is at Wheelock in Boston. You see, the Bemis Brothers Bag Company, after temporarily moving to Indianapolis, relocated in Minneapolis.

Some additional facts about Bill Hutch and his family: Bill's grandfather "made the brick and built the house in Norwich where Bill was born and raised; it is now a hotel." Bill was one of four brothers, as were both Jack French and Tedo Chase. All twelve are now gone except Tedo's brothers Steve '96, Fred 'OS and Phil '07. Brother Martin Hutchinson was best man at Warren Kendall's marriage to Willis Hodgkins's sister Helen. The last winter Bill Hutch was in Hanover he remembered "the snow was so deep and crusted that I drove with a horse and sleigh from Conant Hall across the field to the old Thayer building near John Fuller's farm." Bill's father "fought in the wheat field at Gettysburg and the men on either side of him were killed, but he didn't have a scratch." And his mother's great-uncle Aaron Loveland was a classmate and roommate of Daniel Webster. Bill's wife Carrie's great-grandfather owned several hundred acres of the Gettysburg battlefield, but sold it in 1803 except what was later known as Big and Little Roundtop. They were solid rock. So he left and went - as he called it - "West" and settled near Pittsburgh.

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

Treasurer, 22 Vera St., W. Hartford 7, Conn.