1899

For many sound reasons, long considered, some personal, the secretary this June submits his final regular news column for '99. From the death of Phil Winchester at Christmas time in 1957 to the present, "K" has had good reason to thank Editor Charlie Widmayer, as he now does most cordially, as he also does Charlie's assistants, for courteous, helpful editing. Later, special circumstances may well give need for occasional contributions. And there will always be the warmest welcome for any word from any one in the big '99 Family. But for now the following brief personal items will end the regular inclusion of class notes in the MAGAZINE.

(1) Ed Allen's first great-grandson, Michael Joseph Chamberlain, greeted Ed's son Ted '33 as "Grandpa" last February 16. (2) K.Seal's old Boston high school, "M.A.H.S." now lies under the towering Prudential Center and the Sheraton Hotel. Also on April 25 K.'s wife May again visited her favorite hospital in New London, N. H., for an attack of angina. (3) Louis Benezet would be happy if he could know of the generous bequest of over $300,000 received by Dartmouth from his former protege, John G. Beranek '20. (4) Sam Burns's great-grandson, Patrick Allen Stewart, came March 12 when his daddy, young Sam Stewart, was right in the midst of his mid-term college exams. (5) Hawley Chase spent part of the winter in Miami, with an occasional glimpse of Rodney, but came back north for his 88th on June 12. (6) Joe Gannon still has a steady hand on '99's drive to share the successful 1965 Fund Drive. (7) Gus Heywood's widow Muriel is gardening now in Worcester instead of swimming in the warm waters off Fort Lauderdale. (8) Tat (Mrs.Arthur P.) Irving looks back on her winter month in Bermuda and forward to her favorite Rockport retreat.

(9) Warren Kendall's son Gordon after long and successful service with the Atlantic Coast Line has joined his brother Bill '32 on the Louisville-Nashville. (10) Fod Martin was reminiscing recently on experiences in St. Nazaire, France in 1917 when he was Financial Secretary in the big YMCA hut on the dock where American troops were disembarking and changing American money for French currency. Suddenly a familiar voice called, "Fod Martin! Where on earth did you come from?" It was Bill Atwood on his way to his own "Y" assignment in Paris. Bill died in 1931, - they never met again. (11) Doc Norton's widow Katherine hopes to share her Sugar Land, Texas, home's new air-conditioning comfort this summer with her four daughters, - Betty, Kitty, Mary and Sally. (12) Herb Rogers is still nursing a lame ankle that keeps him upstairs in his rooming house in Springfield; he's a bit envious of daughter Barbara's husband Phil Bachelder who is off again on a long business trip to South America for Kimberly-Clark.

(13) Rodney Sanborn after a pleasant winter in Miami Shores near Margaret's and his former winter home will be at Stonywall, Ossipee by the time you read this. (14) Last March Weary Wardle's son Harry called in Bradford with Frances and two of their three sons, Allen and Lee.

Now "speed the parting guest," but let the guest go quietly without ceremony. Let him say only with deep affection those two words which President John Sloan Dickey has made his own at Commencement, "Men and Women of Ninety-Nine, the word with us is also 'So long,' because in our smaller, simpler fellowship there is no final parting either."

Mary Edith Adams, widow of Charles E.Adams, died May 16. Annie May Beal, wife of K. Beal, passed away May 24 after an extended illness.

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

Class Agent, Box 87, West Cornwall, Conn.