1899
Between Veterans' Day '39 and October '48 Tom and Elisabeth Whittier's four daughters gave them thirteen grandsons. Now, Jonathan Warthin, after Annapolis and the U.S. Sub School, has been assigned, Lt.(j.g.), to the nuclear "John C. Calhoun." Ben Roache is a Bryant College, Providence man, Scott Warthin a Hamilton junior, Tom Kennedy a University of Michigan freshman, and Bill Batten the same at Olivet. Whit Warthin at Roxbury Latin, Drew Kennedy, and Fred Batten in Detroit high school take auto drivers' education courses, while Jim Roache and Jim Batten await the same. Mike Roache has enlisted in the Air Force, his brother Peter is entering the Army, while Jack Kennedy is honoring the sea tradition of the Whittier ancestors by a pre-college year as seaman on a freighter, plying up and down the Atlantic and Pa- cific Coasts, through the Panama Canal, and like as not off to South America and Africa as well.
"For each, - in air, on land, on sea, Fair, we pray, may your fortune be."
CLASS BREVITIES: Ed Allen spent some time in January at Grasslands Hospital, Valhalla, N. Y., for observation, tests, treatment; returned home to Ted, Laura and Deanna reinvigorated. Rodney Sanborn took his annual physical checkup in New York, cut Florida from his usual winter itinerary, and is awaiting early spring in Ossipee, then June with '99 in Hanover. Florence, widow of Walter Eastman, kept house several months for daughter Caroline Palmer, sick in La Grange. Incidentally helped Caroline's daughter Linda get ready to marry and go to Germany with her re- serve officer husband. Charlotte Wentworth, Nelson Brown's oldest child, recently moved to West Cornwall, Conn., near Joe Gannon; Ninety-Nine sends sincere sympathy for the loss of her husband, Carl, Harvard '20. Carl Jr., Prexy Tucker's great-grandson, is Dartmouth '58. Jack Greenwood '36, Al Greenwood's younger son, and Peggy, have moved from West Hartford to Michigan City, Ind.
MORE BREVITIES: Virgil, widow of George Rounds, spent a month in New Jersey and Connecticut with son George '42 and daughter Helen (wife of Roy Rowan '41) and the seven grandchildren, including the Rowan "four jacks." Carrie, widow of Bill Hutchinson, is happy on the fifth floor of the fireproof Presbyterian Home in Philipsburg, Pa. Alice, widow of Walter Foss, ate Christmas dinner with her two sisters December 24, and spent Christmas Day in her usual volunteer work in the crowded San Francisco U.S.O. clubroom. Blanche, widow of Ralph Hawkes, spent her Christmas in Arlington, Va., near daughter Mary Lang; then home to York Village; now spending March in Florida. Muriel, widow of Gus Heywood, spent last summer in Maine and Florida, then three weeks again in Florida in January. Ellen Doll, West Virginia, spent four Christmas holidays with her mother, - Mabel, widow of ElmerWoodman, still quietly active in Rolla, Mo.
A combined memorial gift to the Harwinton Congregational Church where Montie Fuller worked so many years was made at Christmas time by the Fuller Family and the Class of 1899. The gift consisted of two wide, dark-red scarves of faille, one to hang about twenty-one inches over the front of the white pulpit, and the other similarly over the white lectern. On the overhang of each scarf is a Latin cross embroidered in gold thread and reaching almost to the golden-fringed bottom. On the back of the pulpit scarf is a stitched inscription, "From the Class of '99," while on the back of the lectern scarf the inscription reads, "From the Fuller Family." Thus we may hope that the lifetime devotion of Montie to Family, to Class, and to Church may long continue an inspiring memory.
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