1918
The Harvard game weekend found 1918 gathering at Tom Shirley's attractive Brae Burn Golf Club. At the Friday night dinner there were 22 men and women. For the pregame luncheon generously sponsored by Harvey Hood and Ed Ferguson 39 participated. By bus arranged by Shirley most of these arrived at the stadium.
Present at the luncheon were Ruth Glover, her guest Caroline Conley (widow of Art Conley '16), George von Kapff, Mabel and Marsh Leavitt, Luke and Ed Healey, Irene and Don Davis, Stan Bates, his daughter Barbara and her husband Dick Thews, Barbara and Harvey Hood, Gwladys and Curt Tripp, Priscilla, and Tom Shirley, Marian and Jake Bingham, Lois Morse, Pat and George Stoddard, Edith and Dick Cooley, Hittey and Reed Montgomery, Minetta and Syl Morey, Dorothy and Steve Mahoney, Gert and Sime Gordon, Kathy and Ed Ferguson, Betty and Tom Bryant, and Kay and Clark Bryant '57.
The highlight of the luncheon was a unanimous approval to make Caroline Conley an honorary classmate and a rousing vote of appreciation extended to Shirley,Ferguson and Hood.
At the game all were joined by JohnDonohue, Alberta and Amos Blandin. On return to Brae Burn eighteen gathered for cocktails and feasting at the buffet dinner.
Bill and Leona Brewster are now at 3771 112th Street North, Seminole, Fla., after closing for the 45th year their Birch Rock Boys Camp in Waterford, Me. PaulGerrish has built the new Gerrish Swim Club. He and Bernice toured thirteen European countries. Their three married children have produced as many grandchildren.
Bill and Katherine Mudgett visited their daughter and two grandchildren in Switzerland. They returned home via the White Mountains and a visit at Reno with their other daughter and four grandchildren.
Sewell and Margaret Strout cancelled the Brae Burn party to visit their children in Connecticut and New York and two grandchildren at Wells College.
Marsh Leavitt reports his wife Mabel has retired from teaching math at Hall High, West Hartford, Conn., and son John '69 is an Air Force 2nd lieutenant as a weather officer at Chicopee, Mass.
Eric and Rose Ball spent the summer at Leverett, Mass., where they explored the "Monk Caves" the legend of which dates from 500 A.D.
Bachelor Pot Potter complains StewTeaze takes his charming wife with him out of the desert every summer, leaving Pot with nothing on which to gloat.
Ed Ferguson reports his Kathy is having luncheons with her Wellesley classmates in preparation for their 50th reunion.
This fall Lester Granger made a 3500-mile lecture and visiting tour from New Orleans to Washington. Princeton, Hanover, Gary, Chicago, Louisville, Birmingham, and New Orleans. The 1918 Hanover gathering sweetened his thoughts as he solo drove his auto.
Before 1918ers visit Dick and MarianWhite they should practice up their cribbage. Dick is planning ahead for the 1975 gathering of the American Association of Nurserymen with which he is still very active.
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