1910

Sumner (Vic) Willis has sent me a beautiful brochure about his new special children's hospital for the handicapped located in Westfield, Mountainside, N.J. Vic's wife Ruth devotes much of her time to this worthy project.

Andy Scarlett has accepted the job as 1910 class coordinator for the five-year fund drive of the College. Andy will wear two hats in his service to the Class. Andy has served 1910 longer and with more devotion than any other classmate.

In a long letter, Harold Sprague reports celebrating his 90th birthday October 7. His many Masonic friends made it a gala affair. Harold lost his wife Olive in 1970 and since then has been blessed with loyal housekeepers. Good ones are gems these days. Harold still drives his car daytimes, and his loyal Masonic neighbors drive him to meetings at night. Outside of arthritic knees, his doctors say he is in good shape for his age.

Pineo Jackson, knowing that Karen and I are interested in birds, has written us an interesting dissertation on quail (Philomena minor), along with an account of his many years of quailhunting experience in Maine with his old Brittany spaniel, his trustworthy companion for many years.

Larry and Miriam Bankart returned to Clearwater, Fla., again for the winter to escape the cold weather in Norwich, Vt. In her newsy Christmas letter, Helen Lowell, Jim's widow, says she will be in Washington until early January, then home to Warsaw, Va. PeterDow, her brother-in-law, entered Dartmouth in our senior year. He was in my class at Thayer School for two years and was a professor of graphics at Dartmouth for several years. Peter was a close faculty friend of Andy Scarlett.

On December 13, Karen, Bill Taylor, and I drove to Lake Worth to see Ossie Shenstone. He made several trips to the hospital these past few months. On his last trip, they discovered incurable stomach cancer and sent him home, where he passed away on January 28. I am glad we went to see him. When I told him that he and I were the only survivors of the Thayer School Class of 1911, it rang a bell. He thought it was wonderful we had come to see him. His son Joe '38 from Birmingham, Mich., had been there to see him the previous week. I have written to Joe of our visit, and there will be an obituary notice for Ossie next month.

In addition to the Merry Christmas cards we received from classmates, we had a nice letter from Helen Baxter, Chauncey's widow. OrillaLowe, Bill's daughter, who lives in Hanover, reports the coldest December since she has lived there. Louis Langdell's daughter Marie LouiseMelvin reports in her Christmas letter that her husband has undergone open-heart surgery and is doing very well.

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