1903

As you must know by now, another good friend, Harry Watson, has left us. Through Ned Kenerson, I learn he went out suddenly and without suffering. Harry wrote me in late September that he was not going to the first game at Hanover. He probably was planning to see his 50th Harvard game at Cambridge.

Ned wrote of a visit to Edwin Daniels at Lyndonville, Vt. According to my records Edwin is the oldest living member of our 1903 group - last August he was 90 years active. Ned found him working with another man banking up the outside of his house for the winter. He helps to prove my theory that we veterans must continue to keep busy even after retirement.

In my first class notes appearing in the December, 1962 MAGAZINE, I copied part of a very graceful and deserved tribute to the then retiring class secretary, John PrayWadham. It was written by W. Frank McEldowney. Now another worthwhile letter from Frank to Ned tells of the recent installation as president of Vassar College of his son-in-law, Alan Simpson. We congratulate Frank and his daughter Mary as well as our sister college Vassar.

Ned Kenerson's letter to you all, as chairman of the 1903 Bequest and Estate Planning Program, has inspired some congratulatory replies. Mrs. Margaret Patch, widow of our' George W., wrote to Ned in part on his "splendid accomplishment" as Bequest Chairman. The entire 1903 family heartily agrees with her and I hope more will tell him so. Ned expects to be back in Green Valley (P.O. Box 8, Arizona) before these notes reach you. I am sure he will welcome your greetings.

George (Gink) Ford reminisces of his early experiences in his athletic career: "I remember that I had to pay for my baseball shoes. On the way back to college after a game, at pretty near midnight, I never had the dough to pay for poached egg on toast and my strawberry shortcake at the June, but what good days they were, especially if we had won the game. The win of a World's Series was as nothing to it."

I had planned to include copy of some verses from Gilbert's "The Yarn of the Nancy Bell." Maybe can do so at some later date, but there seems no more room this month.

We can and do send you all our heartiest and sincerest best wishes for Christmas and throughout the New Year 1966. These are the wind-up notes for 1965 - can we not hear from each other more often in 1966, even if now we live more with our memories than in our present day activities.

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

Bequest Chairman,