1924

The good news is that the class is alive, largely mobile, and as interested in the College and in their classmates as ever. Robin Robinson's "24 Hour Notice" which arrived in February had no less than 35 items from or about classmates or their families. It is wonderful to know that so many of you want to keep in touch. One other item of good news which should be bragged about in the wider circulation of the Magazine is the fact that nine more members of the class have received commemorative bowls, as 60-year donors to the Alumni Fund.

As Robin's newsletter makes clear, we are a great class. It is fine that we realize this ourselves, but too bad that we hide the fact from the rest of the world. I assume that most of you follow my habit by reading not only our class notes but those of the other six classes with which our time in Hanover overlapped. It always surprises me how many names pop up with whom I recognize some association. If our news is to reach the same corresponding group in these other classes, I have to get the word!

The bad news, however, is that I have on hand just one letter from a classmate and no other news except that which was covered by Robin. A letter from Dr. HankWheaton from Bloomfield, N.J., reports the death of his wife, Mary, in December. He is living alone. He has three sons, all of whom are married, two of them to Chinese women.

Possibly, some doggerel will help: If you fine lads and lasses Wish to share with other classes Word of your news and fame Just send it in my name. Your message will then reach the masses.

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