1903

From the October and November notes you already have read of the loss of Mac-Lennan in August and on October 2, PrayWadham, two 1903 stalwarts.

In the notes I wrote for December, 1962 my first effort, I quoted from a letter of W. Frank McEldowney. This same quote is, I believe, a fitting tribute to Pray Wadham now, as it was then. "You're an ideal secretary. You recall the names of our classmates and make their faces shine through the mists of sixty years as they did on frosty mornings of 1900 as the bell sounded its last strokes and we crowded through the Chapel door." As class treasurer he was doing an equally good job.

His good friend Don Williams, Dartmouth '07, of Keene, has sent me a lengthy and very interesting clipping from the "Keene Evening Sentinel," which starts out under the headline "Local Man Prepares for His 49th Game." It tells with interesting detail of the Harvard-Dartmouth football games which William H. (Harry) WatsonSr., still the practicing "Yankee lawyer," has attended since the dedication in 1903 of the Harvard Stadium. He has only missed the 1956 game. He was taking a trip around the world that fall and along the way stopped over to attend the Olympic Games in Australia. He also attended 25 consecutive Yale-Dartmouth games before _ gasoline rationing in World War II kept him away from the Yale Bowl. (This year's 24-15 score was a sad let-down after the glorious victory over Harvard the previous week.) You will remember in the March 1964 notes a rather brief summary, also from the Sentinel, of his many and varied civic and other worthwhile activities. I only hope he will join my staff as special sports reporter of future Harvard-Dartmouth games.

Our president, Kid Cohen, sends his Season's Greetings to the Class with the hope that we live as long as we have good health - and adds "at our age it is a rare article." I am sure we all will agree.

Your secretary and his long time boss and helpmate, Miriam, join in sincere best wishes for good health and the quiet happiness which seems to come with increasing years. May the New Year be good to you and yours.

AND PLEASE WRITE ME NOW AND AGAIN.

Secretary, 13 Vermont Ave. Binghamton, N. Y.