1905

This December magazine will be the final for the year 1971. It has been a busy year with many problems for us all. Jane and I wish to express to the 1905 family our most hearty thanks for the continued loyal support which has enabled 1905 to make another new record in the Old Timers' Group. To all the 'O5 family, our best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a prosperous year in 1972.

Maude Harding, widow of our Robert, is still living in the home in Wellesley that she and Robert built in the early '40s. Maude spends her summers at North Falmouth on the Cape. She is one of our widows enjoying her old age happily.

Birthdays coming up: Frank English, December 28, 1971, 91 years; Roger W Brown, January 10, 1972, 89 years; Herford Elliott, February 3, 1972, 89 years; and Robert Falconer, February 16 1972, 90 years.

As of late October, a call to Jerry Brooks says she is slowly improving, now only using a cane. Helen is much better and now driving the car around town. I guess the good doctors at Mary Hitchcock have her on the road to recovery.

John Bell is about the same. His wife Lucy flew to Clearwater and is in the apartment they have had for a number of years. Jane and I will be flying to Florid about December 15. Expect to see C. C Hills in St. Petersburg and we will all go to Dunedin to see other Dartmouth folks.

A letter on November 1 from Ida Parkinson sent me early congratulation; for my next birthday coming up January 10. She keeps active and is interested in local and national affairs. She is fortunate to be in such good health.

Ethel Lillard is active and very busy keeping up with her growing family of great-grandchildren. She is expecting a new. addition in December. Her daughter Bar bara Powers is on the editorial staff of The Somerville Journal and has been busy wit: the recent elections in Somerville, Cambridge, Medford, and Woburn.

One of the nicest things that has recently happened to 1905 was the gift from Marion and Elsie Grover's daughter Barbara of Elsie's 50-year C. & G. Year book put out in 1937. I have tried to get a copy, but never succeeded. The book shows pictures of every class from 1887 through 1937.

I was not a C. & G. but I have known many men who were and I can honestly vouch for the correctness of their chinning slogan, "Our members are 99 and 44 hundredths percent the representative leaders of their Class."

The football season has only two more games—Cornell and Princeton. As of now. we are second in the Ivy League, Cornell is first with five wins, while we are four wins and one loss. By the time you read this, the season will be over. I will be happy if come in second. All our games have beer, close and very exciting, with three of out wins due to the magic toe of Ted Perry's kicking foot.

Secretary and Treasurer 5 Pine Ridge Rd. West Medford, Mass. 02155