1899

Thanks for that good start on the Alumni Fund! So please keep sending your checks direct to Crosby Hall, Hanover, N. H.

Phil Winchester's son Bob writes, "Much involved in air pollution prevention in New Jersey. Next year hope to be at Drexel for my master's on environmental science." Arthur Wiggin's Ruth Chase, oldest of his five, has four of her own with descendants aplenty already, visited in Kenedy, Texas: "Weather a heap better than in Burlington, Vermont. Brother Arthur is married, has a baby; Sister Jane expecting her sixth." The star of the Wiggin Dynasty is still clearly in the ascendant. Ruth has her Dad's own vigor and humor.

Tony Willard's Elma took a chance on finding the secretary in his and May's old home in Bradford, N. H. She missed him, but winged me in Winchester, Mass. Grandson Dick, 21 next Christmas Day, is choosing four years in the Army after two at the University of Maine. Elma herself is again keeping house after many years away. Happy to have her own possessions around her again. Accidents, weddings, multiplication of great-grandchildren leave her "never a dull moment." Thinks women are luckier than men because they have so many more hobbies - cooking, sewing, crocheting, embroidering, reading, solving puzzles (the harder, the better). And now, reviewing Greek and Latin declensions! "Some day I'll settle down and start growing old, but since I'm planning to be around until I'm. a hundred, there doesn't seem to be any hurry." Well, here we are running a real Hobby Corner. Come on, my brave male comrades, what are your hobbies? Elma, you're also our first "MRA" correspondent (Mountain Routed).

Fret! Walker's son Austin with Eleanor is traveling less than once, but manages to get Eleanor to her musical engagements - singing in the Worcester Festival, or in the "Messiah" Chorus in Framingham. Incidentally she's busy nursing six days a week at the Gushing.

Frank Staley's widow Pearl has a grandson in Vietnam, but writes as cheerfully as she talked when my cousin and I visited her two years ago at Rossmoor Leisure World in California. Jack Sanborn's daughter Mary (Mrs. Steve Abt) still writes from Northford, Conn. And Luther Oakes' faithful widow Anne and their daughter Betty Clarke still write from Minneapolis. Huge drifts of snow in their yards, and temperatures thirty below zero. What's to give when all that snow melts? But Anne has whisked off to Mexico for a visit, and Betty and husband Dick are waiting for their new home to be finished - Clarke Country Contemporary, with its birch grove and cliffside location. Just last spring they had their twenty-fifth anniversary celebration on a Western jaunt. Meanwhile daughter Nancy despite a ski-broken leg from last year to coddle is back on her teaching job in San Jose. Brother Steve, senior at Amherst and a political science major, hopes to join the Peace Corps and eventually enter the Foreign Service.

Frank Musgrove's widow Lillia wrote her own Christmas verses last December. Here is one sample: Because we're friends, and good ones too, This Christmas brings glad thoughts of you.

Wesley Jordan's daughter "Winnie" reports the sudden death of her sister Barbara Colby in Tennessee. The latter's daughter Patricia will soon graduate from the University of New Hampshire, while Pamela is at Oak Grove School for Girls in Maine. Our sincere sympathy for you, Winnie and the others.

Another great loss for Ninety-Nine: On March 4 Martha Jane Lyon Fuller, widow of Montie John Baker Fuller, died in a San Francisco hospital. Details in June.

Secretary and Class Agent 40 Church St. Winchester, Mass. 01890