1912

Not long ago an interesting letter arrived from Ernest Osgood, who is a retired professor of history at Wooster College in Ohio. Together with the letter was a reprint of one of his historical articles which memorialized the dog Scannon of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Ernest has done much research and written extensively on this phase of early American life in the West. This was one of his many interesting stories. His letter bemoans the fact that the 1912 65th reunion picture was lacking identification of the individuals, so I hastened to send him a chart with a key to the picture. Wistfully he hints that the past summer saw him making his last long drive to his cabin in the Montana hills.

Dutch Waterbury survived the reunion in good condition, received his lost hat before he took time to buy another, and celebrated his 86th birthday with a group of friends at the swank yacht club in Green Bay. Someone was too generous, as both Edith and Dutch came down with a peach of a head cold, which almost floored them for two weeks.

Ray Tobey also had a birthday recently, but he counted it the 89th. He relates his thrilling (?) experience of traveling all the way to Portland daily for a treatment lasting one minute each time. Ray boasts a succession of blooms from early spring until November as a result of perennials planted several years ago. Life in the country certainly has its rewards, especially in Maine.

Katie Baker lost very little time in writing of the "real joy" she experienced at our 65th reunion. She has been taking an 8-week, non-credit course in "Makers of the Modern World," requiring considerable reading, for which she uses tapes for the most part. Katie enclosed an obituary of Grace Hoyt Mosier, Harold's widow, who died on September 2, 1977.

Leona Richmond told us how much she appreciates the "Billboard," particularly the last issue with pictures of the 65th reunioners. She relates that the temperatures in lowa this summer reached 100° or more seven times. She has plans for a fairly long visit to Hawaii after the New Year. Before that, she is coming east to visit friends and see the autumn foliage. Our peripatetic widow!

Sadly we report the death of Joseph N. Paul on September 8 in Trumbull, Conn.

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