1900

During the past year the members of the 1900 family have had the opportunity to visit far-off places and to gain an insight into the mode of lives of strange people.

Olivia Alleway, daughter of Oliver Foster, took time off from the responsibilities of a lively household to accompany her husband on a trip to the Far East. They visited Hong Kong, Tokyo, Manila, and Hawaii. The sights, sounds, smells, and people of a different culture were a broadening and exciting experience. For Olivia the highlights of this tour were seeing Red gunboats in the harbor of Macao, a black tie dinner at Government House in Hong Kong, a reception given by the Emperor and Empress of Japan, enjoying rapid transit from Tokyo to Kyoto, a week's residence with American students in a traditional Japanese inn, sitting out a typhoon in a Buddhist monastery while a priest lectured, visiting Lake Taal near Manila just a few weeks before its volcanic center erupted, and finally a much needed rest at Napili Bay on Maui, Hawaii before contacting again family life at Santa Barbara.

During the fall Ruth Hodgkins, daughter of Lem Hodgkins, and her husband flew away on a long trek to the far reaches of the Pacific. They touched down at Honolulu airport and enjoyed the exotic scenes of that luxuriant series of islands, then on to some of the Pacific islands, surely Tahiti, and before returning home went on to Australia. Soon after reaching home they flew down to Bermuda to spend the Christmas holidays. Here they enjoyed golf, surf bathing, and other amenities of that glamorous resort.

To add to the story of foreign travelers, Roland Eaton, Pa Eaton's son, writes me that his daughter, Anne, and son-in-law have just returned from spending sixteen months in India. His son-in-law, Melvin Neville, had completed a research fellowship in anthropology for the National Institutes of Health. Elizabeth Gaffney, daughter of George Tong, reports that her daughter, Betty Jean, has received her Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Stanford University. During the current year she will be in Sendai, Japan for a year of post-doctoral study at Tohoku University.

To one brought up in the horse and buggy era the comings and goings to far-away places, and especially the facility and ease with which it is done, seems little short of marvelous. In these days of super jets how small our world has become!

I am sorry to report the misfortune which has befallen Arthur Wallace. In a letter recently received from his daughter, Mrs. Hale Byron, she writes that her father fell at his home on Jan. 16 and broke his hip. Then on Feb. 7 he suffered a shock which left him partially paralyzed. At this writing he is a patient in the Nashua Hospital. From day to day he shows some hopeful response to the treatment being given. Through all this trying experience, his daughter says, he has maintained an optimistic outlook and an indomitable spirit. We can only hope that by the time this gets into print that Arthur may have made substantial progress and that eventually he may regain his normal good health and vigor.

Secretary and Class Agent Box 714, Hanover, N. H.