1908

NEW ADDRESSES: Mrs. L. C. Amidon, 10 Manning Terrace, Newport, R. I. 02840; Seymour Rutherford. 290 North May Street' Southern Pines, N. C.; Lauris G. Treadway will be at Vero Beach 28387 for the winter.

NEWS FROM CLASSMATES: Christmas greetings to your editor brought a good grist of news for this month. Donald Comstoek in a Christmas greeting: "Last May we sold our place in Tucson, Ariz., and came here to York, Pa., to be near our family in our old age. We have taken an apartment only a short distance from our five grandchildren and it seems good to be around youngsters again. We are in good health."

Ralph Currier from Milford, N. H.: "I haven't been to Florida since Mary died. It would not seem the same and besides I don't believe I could make the trip. Was in the hospital a week last summer and get around with a cane on rather weak legs."

Jack Everett reports as to the 1958 booklet: "No change from 1958 except that we took up at Bristol where we live like the souls in Dante's Limbo - without merit or blame (we hope)."

Dorothy Fiske wrote from Falmouth: "My health is not what it should be and hasn't been since Eben has gone. I agree with you that this will be a sad season but we must make the best of it and do what we can to be cheerful, on the outside at least."

John H. (Dolly) Gray from Sevastopol: "We have been up here almost nine years and we love it. Three months of each year I have worked hard for Tom, Dick, and Harry and sundry other suckers (the next spring is my last) and the rest of the year I've grown plenty of vegetables to keep the bugs and birds and gophers nourished and have sat in a soft chair developing callouses."

Roger Hill from Royal Oak: "We have been back 'East' practically every summer vacation, either to my sister's summer home at Newfound Lake or to the Mountain View Hotel in Whitefield, N. H. so we thought we would like living around Boston, but, after trying it out there for a year, we both found that we had to get back to the 'Wild West.' We therefore returned and bought a small ranch house in Royal Oak where we still live."

Fred Munkelt, our mathematician and mortality statistician, wrote in November: "I note that there are now 70 active members. That compares with the mortality table number of 64 for 1966 now almost finished. We are thus 11 % ahead." These figures are outdated and as of January 1967 my records show 66 active members of the class living compared with 56 in Fred's mortality table for 1967 and we are 12% ahead.

Ralph Pease from Medway: "Last year (1965) I spent Thanksgiving in the hospital with a hernia operation. When I came out I wasn't too hot. The ticker didn't tick regularly. Mostly it is pretty good now, but it did bother my wife when I put (personally) a new roof on the back of my house last summer. It is done now and the worry was all in vain."

Seymour Rutherford: "Southern Pines agreed with us so well last year that we are back again for the winter at 290 North May Street."

Abigail Snow, George's widow, wrote in reply to my letter of sympathy: "We expect to keep the Marshfield home as John (her son) enjoys the farming part. Harold had been ailing for many years but he did take an interest until two years ago in the gardens. He was a perfect husband."

George Squier from the Green Mountains: "This quiet uneventful life which we live must help. I look fine and you'd never suspect that I had high blood pressure, a medical heart, knee trouble, and arthritis. But, shucks, I was never one to boast and treat 'em all as incidents. Guess my status in life is pretty well fixed by now. I've given up hope of being rich or poor. I like the rocking chair, the fireplace, and plenty of books."

Henry Stone from 8A Franzone Drive in Bradford Gardens. "Our apartment has a large living room, a small kitchen and two bedrooms. It is adequate for our needs. All appliances are electrically controlled. Life has been pretty fine for us old folks. We have our aches and pains principally due to our eighty (82 S.L.R.) years. We both are able to drive our automobile and are not too dependent on our children and grandchildren."

Phil Thompson in December wrote: "We have made no trips away from home due to Claire's illness starting in March and she has been in the hospital from time to time since she came home December 5. She is improving slowly and better than she has been since March."

From Bert Thwing, our Canadian ambassador: "Been the usual except that Mary broke her hip last May and is still not running around. I had a slight heart attack in September (too heavy loads up the mountain to camp) but am O.K. again. Just a warning to act my age, I guess."

IN MEMORIAM. Your editor regrets to report two deaths in the class in December. Lawrence H. Crafts of 46 Catherine Avenue, Reading, Mass., died on December 17, 1966. He was born March 24, 1886, in Reading and his residence while in college was there. He was with us one year only in 1904-05. In 1930 he was reported as in manufacturing at 89 Woburn Street, Reading, and in 1943 the same.

A telegram from Mrs. Thorpe to your editor reported the death of Dr. Burton Durrell Thorpe on December 25 at his home on Unity Road in Newport, N. H. The funeral was to be at the Episcopal Church on December 28. A complete obituary will be found in the In Memoriam section of this or a later issue of the MAGAZINE.

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