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Please Note New Address: Sydney L.Ruggles, 13 Pembroke Road, Danbury, Conn. 06812, effective, October 15, 1965.

As noted above, your editor plans to return to Danbury, Conn., which he called his residence for 17 years before retiring, but was away in military camps more than at home. He will be living with tried and true friends, about a quarter mile from his daughter's family and near the little country church in which he still keeps membership and the churchyard where his wife is buried and where he expects to lie beside her when his time comes. He expects to continue as news editor in his new location.

Paul Batchelder visited a nephew in Wolfeboro in June and your editor paid them a call. Paul seemed quite well but as quiet as ever.

Harold Clark wrote a cheerful reply to my offer of reception into the Octogenarian Club. "Eighty years, Wow! I don't feel it. My garden is all planted and we plan to go to our lake to swim, row and sail with my son and grandchildren. We are happily situated here in the country."

Walter Furman wrote from Princeton, "There is much to be said for living in a university town, and particularly one like Princeton, which is close to a large city. We can go in to New York for the theater but find we tend more to take what Princeton has to offer in that line.

"A great pleasure in connection with Princeton life is the opportunity to watch athletic events and particularly to see various Dartmouth teams. Since living here I have seen Dartmouth play Princeton in football, hockey, basketball, lacrosse, soccer, rugby, rowing, squash, and tennis."

Sumner Crosby reports. "We opened our sixth branch of the Falmouth National Bank today (July 12) with a preview last Saturday. After serving as president of the Falmouth National Bank for 15 years, I felt that it was time that the vice-president and cashier should have the title as well as most of the present-day work and responsibility. I am chairman of the board and also vice president, which latter office enables me to act in an executive capacity if needed. I go to the bank each day and find that associating with younger men is good."

Win Griffin reports: "Now that senescence has overtaken me, I am beginning to be a little more concerned about my social relations. My daughter, Mimi Whipple is here - (from Singapore) just now in connection with the birth of her second grandchild."

Stacey Irish reported that he and Bernice were to go to Galesburg, Ill., on June 25 to help the class of 1915 at Galesburg High School celebrate their 50th reunion. Stacey was on the high school faculty when that class was at the school.

Stacey was recently appointed one of three long-time Evanston residents to fill vacancies on the Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Place Names by Mayor John D. Emery and was confirmed by the City Council. The committee is now considering the names for several smaller parks and other sites. Stacey served as City Personnel Director until 1961.

Honker Joyce sent your editor a newspaper clipping "Flight to Australia" as told by navigator Harry Lyon recording the trip to Australia of Harry and his wife Thelma, to take part in commemoration ceremonies 30 years after the original flight of the "Southern Cross" from Hawaii to a small island in the Fiji group in 1925. Harry was the navigator and Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith of Australia was the pilot on the first cross-Pacific flight. The clipping is too long to be quotedw here but after conferring with Thelma, who had a copy, I sent it to the Alumni Record Office for permanent file in Harry's folder.

Amos Lanphear wrote in July that they had planned a second honeymoon for their 50th wedding anniversary, but instead Leita went to the Yale-New Haven Medical Center for a hernia operation. She is making a good but slow recovery.

A letter from Phyllis Jordan, Gene's widow, in June reported that she was somewhat crippled, getting over a broken leg which she received in an accident in January when she and her sister were hit by a car in Boston while crossing the street. She was still using a cane or crutch and was not agile, but was planning to attend the 46th reunion of her class of 1919 at Wellesley.

Tom McAllister reports "I have been retired from my job as assistant engineer for the New York State Department of Public Works and Ethel and I still keep our home where we have lived since Oct. 1925. We have not been able to be as active as we would have liked as her arthritic condition has prevented it for some years. However she is now improving some and is able to get around with less difficulty."

I have had several letters from StaceyIrish and others concerning Park Stickney and finally one from Park himself, on July 31. "I have just returned home after two months in the hospital involving three major operations. Am well on the road to recovery and in a couple more weeks hope to be able to be carrying on as usual." Stacey wrote on August 11: "Park said to tell you he is still 'Stick' but that he is no longer 'stuck.' He is not only out of the hospital but out on the town." In addition to his own troubles, Park's wife Sue passed away last March according to a letter from Stacey.

Pop Chesley and Larry Treadway both report on a visit Pop made to the Treadways in August. Pop reports "A few days ago I spent tie weekend at Tangle wood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It is only about thirty miles from Williamstown, so I took the opportunity to go there and spend a couple of hours with Larry and Helen Treadway. I found them both surprisingly well. Larry looked ten years younger than he did at our last reunion, and Helen, outside of being a little lame, seemed as 'smart as a cricket'." It was a thrilling get-together, and I think most of the time the three of us were talking at once. Larry wrote "Helen and I had a wonderful visit with Pop Chesley and we look forward to another. He is really delightful."

In the June 18 issue of Time was a two-column illustrated article on Larry's Sturbridge Hostel with a picture of the hostel and of founder Treadway with his genial smile. This has been added to the many previous pages of Larry's accomplishments in the class record books.

Edith (Mrs. Seymour) Rutherford, acknowledging an anniversary card for their golden wedding wrote "It was a very happy day for us - celebrating quietly here at home - with one son and his family and our sister-in-law, Mrs. Bruce Rutherford. We are both quite well this summer and enjoying pleasant weather here near Lake St. Lawrence.

Dr. L. Cleveland Amidon, vice-president and dean of the faculty at Vernon Court Junior College in Newport, R. I., died of a heart attack on July 26, 1965, at his summer home in West Harwich on Cape Cod. A full report of his activities will be found in the In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent issue."

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

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

Treasurer, 17 Harland Place, Norwich, Conn

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