1914

With Thanksgiving and Christmas fading into the past of 1969 comes now the need to look ahead in 1970 and to wonder what news the mailman will bring of the famous class of 1914.

From Florida Howard Fahey and Gas Fuller write of calls made on Charlie Batchelder recently in the Veterans Hospital in Orlando. Later news from Jeanette tells that Charlie made it to their winter home in Redington Shores, Fla., in time for Christmas shared with their daughter Jean and their grandson Kenneth who came on from Dallas for a two-day visit.

Howard and Mary Fahey are in Dunedin, Fla. Howard for 35 years has officiated at major football, basketball, and hockey games. You can imagine what it meant to him that his home team, the Mets, won the World Series. Howard's Christmas card was full of news so closely written that all I could decipher was that he looks forward to an influx of classmates; that Paul andGladys Smith live nearby; that Connie Humphrey will be there soon; that he could not get doctor's permission to attend either reunion or his granddaughter's wedding - a penalty because he had driven 4500 miles.

Speaking of Florida, the latest listing of 1914 guys and dolls from Alumni Records Office dated Nov. 5, 1969 credits this wonderland of the south with being the winter home of the following classmates: Batchelder, Beals, Bowman, Dillingham, Fahey, Fairfield, Fuller, Gaige, Johnson, Junkins, Lowell, Main, Paul Smith - total 13; also as the home of Mrs. Hadley Cole, Mrs. Wilbur Davidson, Mrs. E. Newman Giles, Mrs. Eugene Gillespie, widow of Paul Hazelton; Mrs. Franz Marceau, Mrs. Ulysses S. Needs, Mrs. Caleb H. Niles, Mrs. George W. Rand, Mrs. Ernest C. Swain - total 9. No other state in the Union can claim for 1914 in residence such an aggregation of brains and pulchritude, not even California whose equally sunny shores claim eight classmates and four widows of classmates. For their names watch for our March report.

Howard Curtis now retired looks back on a record of 55 years of service in the Palmer National Bank of Palmer, Mass., where from 1961 to the summer of 1969 he was president. A heart attack and a cataract removal made him miss his long anticipated 55th.

If you liked Lize Wheelock's true story of how he made his way to Boston via the B.&.M. as told in Mart Remsen's finest of all News Letters, and Mart's own adventure getting to Woodsville by freight train then heed my request for your version of how sweet innocence was avenged in the battle of White River during our undergraduate days.

To all still waiting to celebrate a golden wedding let me report that Pennell and Reinette Aborn whose 50th anniversary fell on October 25 found themselves on that date in London. It was their third trip with their anniversary a happy reason for revisiting old friends and familiar places in England. They made the 21-day trip by air returning in time for Christmas here.

Sadly we record the death of John Timothy Reardon at Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury, Conn., December 14, 1969 at age 82. Our deepest sympathy is offered to his widow, Mrs. Louise (Brower) Reardon. A review of our classmate's distinguished career will be found elsewhere in this or a later issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

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