1899

By this time you will have received your invitation to the 65th REUNION, June 12, 13, 14. So here's our cordial "Hope to see you there!"

Also you have received from Joe Gannon the reminder about the Fund Drive. Contributions for 1964 are counted through June 30, but no later.

Fred Lewis Pattee '88 in his "Penn State Yankee" wrote of his life as a boy in Bristol, where our Frank Musgrove also grew up: "As a farmer's son I learned to handle an axe and a scythe, to drive the old square nails so as not to split the wood; to tap a sugar maple in the right place, to gather the sap, to sugar off, and pour into moulds for the market; to load a gun and hit what I aimed at; to build a figure-four deadfall for mink; to drive a yoke of oxen; to grease wagon wheels, harness a horse, and make repairs on the road when anything broke; to drive a horse and at the same time hold plow handles."

Warren Kendall's own boyhood, as Sam Stevens of Lebanon tells it, was also spent in the country, though he was born in his father's Pompanoosuc railroad station home, "with a long, spreading roof covering a freight house, a wagon shed, storehouses for flour and lime and copper ore, a general store and post office." But Warren had a grandfather with a farm in East Lebanon. At ten he helped with the sap and the boiling of it, a 24-hour job in those days; a thousand trees all tapped at the same time, and gathering the stuff in by oxen. "I want to go up on that hill some time; I think it's right back of the cabin the Morrisons have on Lake Mascoma." So Warren, though a telegrapher and a railroad man, knew also the realities of farm life.

Roberta Kennedy writes that her father's final rites will occur at eleven in the morning on Saturday, June 20 in Kennebunk. "Friends are invited to remain at the luncheon afterward at the old home with the family."

Some '99 brevities: Agnes (Mrs. HerbertL.) Watson has always been able to see in clear weather from her living room windows the light on the John Hancock Building. She discovered in April she could see also the lights on the top of the new Prudential Building. K. Beal's wife May spent part of April and May in the New London Hospital recovering from another heart attack; so unfortunately she will probably not accompany "K" to the Reunion.

Herb Rogers likes the Springfield Hospital, but would have preferred to take his arthritis and general check-up on some other day than his 87th birthday, April 29. We hope he's still going to say "Yes" to the Hanover invitation in June. Martha (Mrs.Montie) Fuller writes from her daughter Marcia Brennan's home in St. Petersburg: "A busy household. Gerald, the youngest of the three boys, is an Eagle Scout. His carpenter father Robert is an enthusiastic Scout troop worker. Marcia besides her home duties has regular work visiting twelve blind children all over the county."

Kan-Ichi Asakawa's unique work on comparative feudal history is out of print. An organization in Japan, however, is now planning to republish it in Japanese. Prof. John W. Hall of Yale, specialist in that country's history, is also gathering original manuscripts in the United States, and preparing an introduction for this future publication. A Yale senior, Lindsey Kiang, is writing his research paper on our classmate's life and character. More about this in the fall.

Secretary, Newbury Rd., Bradford, N. H.