1899
Cliff and Julia Fifield, volunteer executives for '99's ROUND-UP at Highway Hotel, Concord August 3, will shortly be sending details to all on the New England mailing list.
John Ash's big old home in Corvallis has been sold to a young college professor, who fell in love with the pool table, while his children enjoy the spacious basement and grounds. Alice writes, "Mabel put an old favorite on the player-piano, — it was just more than I could stand. So we let the youngest grandson have the instrument that Dad loved so much." Giff Stewart, husband of Sara Burns's daughter Barbara, is now vice president of Raymond and Whitcomb Co., "First in Travel since 1879"; his office is in Parker House, Boston. Their son Sam is majoring in geology at University of New Mexico, and during vacations deciphering inscriptions on kinsfolks' gravestones. Montie and Martha Fuller after a hard winter are still deeply grateful for the notes of congratulation on their Dec. 31 Sixtieth Wed- ding Anniversary, - "afraid some went unacknowledged."
Dr. Harriet Louise Hardy, daughter of Dek Hardy, is a reader of Stout's and Christie's fascinating mysteries, but is mainly dedicated to exhaustive thinking about solutions for industry's chemical mysteries, - for example, effect of beryllium in fluoresced lamp industry on lungs, resembling tuberculosis. Our Dr. Harriet has moved successively forward: Radcliffe, Mass., General Hospital, chief of Occupational Medical Clinic, State Health officer, group leader and consultant at Los Alamos for Atomic Energy Commission, contributor to medical journals. Now she is working tirelessly at MIT, conducting extensive and intensive research into numerous elements and conditions man has never before known.
Ed Hyatt's son Allen, still an Army administrative official; his wife Mildred, Director at Wood Co. Hospital; son Bill out of the Army, now attending local State University - all three in Bowling Green, Ohio. Gertrude (Mrs. Ernest L.) Silver writes: "Three miles of new highway north of Plymouth have opened up beautiful views of distant mountains. Eva (Mrs. Guy E.) Speare is still busy, particularly now as a committee member working for the 200th anniversary of Plymouth, July 14 and 15." BillWiggin's oldest daughter Ruth Chase, Port Jarvis, N. Y., has three daughters, one son; they have given her fifteen grandchildren, - thirteen of them boys. The latest two, Bruce and Barry, were a surprise - twins. Wig's daughter Dorothy, Exeter, N. H., like Ruth has lost her husband. But "Dot" and her two sons, Earl Jr. and Tom, have replaced Dad's obsolescent wooden heel business with a furniture factory. Dot herself can if necessary, operate any machine on the 'production line. She has a Colonial Furniture Shop too, just around the corner. Thus the fortitude and the good cheer of the Wiggin Clan live on
Three birthdays: Ralph Hawkes, 87, May 9 with two of his and Blanche's 17 grandchildren in Maine and Pennsylvania colleges' Warren Kendall, 86, May 22, due with family at Kennebunk Beach: Hawley Chase, 86, June 12, whose daughter Marion Berry is a trustee for the new Newport Library. A 7-panel Christmas picture gallery of '99's young people: Tom Whittier's Lake Michigan daughter Lois Batten's three sons, Bill Fred, Jim; Maurice Dickey's Vermont daughter Eleanor Drysdale's three children with "Binker" (dog) and "Lucky" (horse); Dave Storrs' daughter Phoebe Stebbins' four children. - Ann. Martha, David (Dec. 7, 1946), John, — 19 to 13 years; Carl Miller's son Ed's four children, - Pat, Anne, Charles, David, — 18 to four years; Louis Benezet's first great-grandchild, David, back in Connecticut from Hawaii with parents Joan and Roger Whitcomb; Bones Woodward's first great-grandson, Daniel Burdick, born in Okinawa last Dec. 7 (note that date again), brother to Laurel, first great-granddaughter; Ned Baldwin's first great-grandson, David Iseley, son of Ned's daughter Marion Tryon last January 20.
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