1908

John Alden reports that since the death of his wife he has remained in their old home where housekeeping duties and reading keep him busy. He has had visits from his son Bob from Lima, Ohio, and Bill from Charlotteville, Va., and his daughter Pat from Woodside, Calif. Earlier in the spring he and Ray Marsh had a rendezvous. Bill's daughter, Barbi, has just completed her sophomore year at Swarthmore and will spend her junior year abroad. His other daughter Claire graduated from Wheaton College and expects to spend next year doing graduate work in the University of Barcelona. Son Bob's older daughter, Becky, is entering her third year training at St. Luke's and his oldest son is entering his first year at college.

Esther Blanchard, Gordon's widow, has a grandson, Bill, who graduated from Deerfield Academy and expects to enter Dartmouth in September.

Phil Flanders was in a hospital in Keene, N.H., in August for the removal of an infected toe but is reported to be recovering.

Miles Gardiner's widow, Julia, has moved from their former home in Rochester, N.Y., to live with her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Miller at 234 San Rondoe, West Webster, N.Y.

Stacey and Bernice Irish made a trip east after the funeral of Bernice's sister in Montreal on March 30. They called on Andy and Bertha Scarlett 'lO in Hanover and on their return on friends in Northfield, Vt., where Stacey was born. Their daughter Edith, who lost her first husband, Harold Ames, two years ago in an automobile accident was married again to Sherman Durell on Feb. 17.

Dick and Helen Merrill celebrated their 53 rd anniversary of a very happy married life on July 5. Their grandson, John T. Merrill, was one of 30 gifted students from all over the U. S. who participated in the sixth annual summer science program at the Thacher School in Ojai, Calif., computing orbits of minor planets after a background of mathematics, physics, celestial navigation, and solar rotations.

Pauline O'Shea, Art's widow, has a grandson in the freshman class at Dartmouth, son of John D. O'Shea '40.

"Kid" Richardson bought a new home last year and his address is 521 North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles 36, Calif.

Elisha and Fannie Winslow celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on January 19.

Your editor regrets to report the passing of three classmates and three class widows: Charles H. Beane on May 8, 1964; Miles C.Gardner on December 31, 1963; and William M. Silleck on November 15, 1962. All were with us a short time only and did not graduate.

Mrs. Helen Proctor Dunn, widow of our Theodore I. Dunn, died suddenly on June 2, just three months after her husband, and Serena Hoffman Rotch, widow of ArthurRotch, on June 28 after a long illness.

Mrs. Arthur B. Barnes passed away in August while they were on vacation on Cape Cod.

A new Directory of the class of 1908 is being published. Copies will be mailed with the next newsletter to all on the 1908 mailing list. A few copies are available to others desiring them through the editor or Secretary Larry Symmes.

Class Notes Editor R.F.D. 1, Laconia, N.H.

Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N.Y.

Treasurer, 17 Harland Place, Norwich, Conn.