1899

Some '99ers missed the August Round-Up. Willis Hodgkins' son Ted and Warren Kendall's Bill were involved in climactic annual golf tournament at Kennebunk Beach. Dek Hardy's daughter "Dr. Harriet," PittDrew's widow Mabel, and most of DaveStorrs' daughter Phoebe Stebbins's family were in Europe. Benny Benezet's son Roger '32 was engineering in Thailand, while brother Louis '36 was just exchanging the presidency of Colorado College for that of Claremont Graduate School and University in California. Carl Miller's widow Elizabeth had moved to "The Homestead, Stamford, with excellent nurses and gay rooms," near son Edward's ('40) family and daughter Mary-Lou Spang (the latter's son Richard with a double degree — chemistry and math — plus a National Science Foundation Grant for the summer, and a full fall Case Institute scholarship, while sister "Zibby" has finished her first year in Columbia's Architectural School). Montie Fuller's son Melville was busy with daughter Nancy's new baby. Jim Barney's son Roger's family saw Alice graduate from Wellesley, but spent only June in New England. Our Charlie Donahue's grandson Charlie '66 was cruising on "U.S.S. Randolph" with Dartmouth's R.O.T.C.

Other explanations: Gus Hey wood's widow Muriel was vacationing in Florida and in Maine. Eddie Skinner's widow Sadie was entertaining a niece from Sacramento. Clarence Joy's widow Lena in Malone, N. Y., was enjoying visits from their three children. "Tat," widow of Art Irving, was vacationing at Rockport with sister Hil. Lillia and Frank A. Musgrove's granddaughter Sandra was marrying Allan Emerton in Holderness, while Mot and Grace Sargeant's granddaughter Miriam Packard was home in New Bedford to marry a young Englishman, lan Brown. Bill's Sally Beal after graduating from B.U. married a Yale ensign, Warren Fowler, and flew with him to San Diego; George Beal '34's son Kenneth was marrying Connie Middleton in East Providence during college vacation; the secretary and May themselves attended weddings, celebrated their own 60th anniversary, July 7, and helped entertain son Malcolm '28's daughter Nancy May with Jim Keech, LSU teacher-husband, and 4-year-old Amy Beth, first great-grandchild, neither of these last two ever before been north of the Mason Dixon line.

Bill Wiggin's daughter Jane's husband Lyle Robillard had unexpected work August 3, but the couple made a Bradford call next day with three of their children. ErnestSilver's widow Gertrude was in Quebec. Joe Gannon's daughter Genevieve Read and Winter were selecting their new home in West Cornwall, Conn. Tom Whittier's and Elisabeth's daughter Ginnie Warthin and "Dr. Tom" were hosting the picnicking Peter Bent Brigham Medical Staff. FredWalker's son Austin and Eleanor were detained by the latter's hospital duties and special music lessons; brother Stan Walker's ('36) oldest child of five, Linda May, entered Jackson College this fall. WearyWardle's son Harry had overlooked a previous engagement in August, and sister Rosemary Knox was also busy.

Late news has come of the death April 3 in White River Junction of Adelaide Collins French, widow of John McQuestenFrench who died in 1906. Adelaide had been secretary to the president of Stout Institute, buyer in a Columbus department store and in Filene's. Later she was secretary to the state attorney for Windsor County, Vt. In spite of crippling arthritis she used her typewriter for '99 correspondence.

Birthdays in November: Joe Gannon 90 (yes, ninety), Nov. 17; Bert Boston 89, Nov. 21; Fod Martin 86, Nov. 28. Our distaff '99ers have birthdays too: Eva Speare, Lillia Musgrove, Tat Irving, Amy Ford - in that order, but mum's the word on dates and years!

Postscript: Sad news of Helen Kendall's sudden death on the train from Boston to Washington on October 4; service in Kennebunkport, October 6. Details in the December column. Sincerest sympathy to Warren and his family from the Class of '99.

Sitting in the front row are (from left) Kenneth Beal, Hawley Chase, Warren Kendall, Leon Martin, and Herbert Rogers who attended the 63rd Round-Up at the Highway Motel in Concord, N. H., with other members of the 1899 family pictured here.

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

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