1903

By the time you get these notes and I hope read them, it will be getting near to that moment of decision and final planning for your attendance at the 60th reunion, Friday into Sunday, June 14-16 next. Your reservation is due by April 15 but I feel reasonably sure if you have not sent yours by now, you can do so at once to M. R. Brown, 715 Madison St., Fall River, Mass., and some way will be found to squeeze you in.

I am sorry to report that Herb Follett from Sacramento, Calif., does not feel he can make the trip. It is a long way to come but I was hoping right up to the last minute to see him again. Way back, over fifty years ago in 1908 and 1909, we used to get together in New York City when he came to town to buy for Butler Brothers and I was starting in as an examiner in the New York State Insurance Department. Another man heard from who has made his mark in the line he chose for himself, Arthur Noyes, writes from his present retirement at the Norristown State Hospital in Pennsylvania, that unfortunately he can only get around in a wheel chair and much as he would like to be with us does not feel he can make it. Arthur has had a wonderfully full and worthwhile career. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1906, interned at City Hospital, Blackwell's Island, New York City. After private general practice he decided to specialize in Psychiatry and spent nine years at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C., which he left to become Superintendent of the Norristown State Hospital. His 'Text Book of Modern Psychiatry" is now in its sixth edition and is widely used as a text book. In 1958 he was elected President of the American Psychiatric Association. In the following year he retired from the superintendency but has continued to live at the hospital. We have every reason to be proud of him and his record and only wish he could be with us in June.

A letter from Al Pratt recalled recollections of Billy Grant and his autobiographical book, "Such Is Life," published in 1952. A day or two later the book arrived to become, at Al's request, an item in the class records. The secretary will try to take good care of it during his term of office.

Kid Cohen is back from his vacation which he writes has done him a lot of good. We will be looking forward to seeing him again in June.

Kenie writes of their extended stay in Arizona and expected to be home around April 3. Dick Brown and the Secretary will have lots of reunion matters to take up with him and get the benefit of his good judgment.

By reason of necessary MAGAZINE publication deadlines there will not be anything more about reunion information in subsequent notes. I hope you have not been bored with repeated references to June. We do feel you should make every effort to be in Hanover for your own and our sake at this last official gathering of what is left of the 1903 clan. So long until June 14 next.

Secretary and Class Agent, 13 Vermont Ave. Binghamton, N.Y.