1899

Most letters can stand a postscript. Our Christmas newsletter is no exception. Here are two that really belong in February.

"Ikey" Leavitt was born Feb. 8, 1875. He had three children, but Ronald, the "Class Baby," and Allison both have gone. The youngest, however, Norma Leavitt, is a specialist in Physical Education for Women, and a professor now in the University of Florida in Gainesville. She reports that Allison's daughter Susan, Ikey's only granddaughter, now herself has a daughter, Louise Boehm, born appropriately just after our 65th.

And it was in February too that DaveParker left us, the 25th in 1956. He had two daughters, Frances, Mt. Holyoke '35, and Mary, Bennington College '36. Unhappily, the latter died in 1949 after a few years of success on the stage, notably in Raymond Massey's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." But Frances has given us a brief re- port of the three children of Mary and her husband, Dr. Robert R. Rix, Dartmouth '3O of Manchester, N. H. Louise, Smith '64, an English major, is now a "corrector" at Harvard Business School. Billy is on the Dean's list at the University of Rochester '67. Robert Jr., Tufts '68, is the closest of chums with his brother Billy.

Frances herself after some teaching, and experimentation with sculpturing, married William Otis Faxon, Harvard '32, now executive vice president of Comstock and Westcott. Both Frances and he are active in church work in Concord, Mass., and in community projects. And as for children! Thev are the parents of two pairs of twins!

David Parker (yes, that's right, "David Parker Faxon") and Susan are 20. Dave is a sophomore in Hamilton, doing well in biology and embryology, still planning a medical career like his grandfather. Susan is a sophomore in Smith, Grandmother Faxon's alma mater, and specializing in art and design. The younger twins, Tom and Roger, are 16. Tom is at Sterling School, Craftsbury Common, Vt., while Roger is much interested in the local high school courses in history, economics and psychology

This family of six have a common interest in winter sports. "After several years of renting a heated space in the Franconia area, we now have a 24-foot-square vacation house near the village. Gale Brook rushes by on one side, and from the front we look straight out at Lafayette and Cannon."

Well, in March we'll give some more "postscripts." The secretary almost forgot to bracket himself with Paul Osgood as blowers out of February birthday candles - himself on the sixth at 86, and Paul on the twenty-sixth at 87. We both hope sometime to catch up with our maturer classmates!

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