1905

With the arrival of April the northward migration of, 1905-in-Florida sets in. C. C. Hills is making a leisurely trip home byway of Columbus, O. Isabel will fly home later after more of a visit with their daughter in Florida. Isabel unfortunately has not been well; we hope she is making steady improvement. Roger and Jane Brown expect to reach home by April 10 and Fred Chase also some time in that month.

While the weather in Florida has been reported to have been salubrious, the northern tier of states has suffered heavily from snow and ice storms. Pollock Balph, 125 miles from Detroit, reports his district was particularly hard hit with much damage to trees. However his bird friends, which he enjoys watching, apparently survived, for he writes that seven varieties were frequenting his feeding station last winter.

Our class joined the great-grandfather group some years ago with the arrival of great-grandchildren to Ed Gilbert. Now I learn that "Ike" Maynard and Bess have two boys in that category. Congratulations!

While grandchildren may by comparison seem tame, still we wish to congratulate "Sliver" and Alva Hatch on their twelfth, a husky boy. They spent Christmas in Alabama to welcome the new arrival - a pleasant trip and visit, yet they found the weather surprisingly cool for the "Sunny South."

We have been happy to know that Ned Estes keeps active as a church organist and recitalist. A recent news item calls attention to his musical activity in another field. He accompanied a tenor soloist, it was reported, at a meeting of the Berwick Woman's Club.

As to keeping active, Percy Ladd sets us all an excellent example. He is now supplying two churches somewhere in the vicinity of the east shore of Lake Champlain. An indefatigable reader, he has not confined himself to English, but has made a hobby of acquiring an acquaintance with a goodly number of foreign tongues.

We were sorry to learn that, on their way to Florida, "Paene" and Alice Moore were in an accident with their car. Alice suffered several cracked ribs and was hospitalized for ten days. Fortunately Chester escaped injury. Alice has gradually recovered from her injuries. However they say that when they get back to Schenectady they are going to "stay put"; no more driving except around home, they aver.

After a siege of arthritis that incapacitated him for twenty years John Furfey died in Newtonville, Mass., March 19. Our deep sympathy goes to his wife, son and daughter in the loss of a tried and true husband and father.

Mildred and I enjoyed greatly the recent excellent concert of the Dartmouth Glee Club. This is a very pleasant way to maintain favorable public relations with the old College.

Note that the date of our 57th reunion is a week later than usual. Because of the later time set for the Norwich Fair, which we like to have as an interesting interlude in our reunion, the date is July 20, 21 and 22. Make your reservations at the Inn early.

A Dartmouth Club luncheon in Sarasota,Florida, in February brought togetherthese nine '07 men: (I to r) Dick Lane,Fred Lena, Orlando Davis, Allan Brown,Harold Niles, Fred Baldwin, DonHoughton, Bob Kenyon, and Bill Walker.

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