1924

97 Angell Street Providence, RI 02906

Our class mini-reunion was the usual joyful time for the regulars. We were sorry not to have any new recruits this year, but the Chinee Aliens, Pete Wheatleys, Stan Chitticks, Robin Robinsons, Roily Taylors, EdWinsors, and Harry Holmlunds, together with Dave Dyche and Pauline Hartshorn, were all on hand. At our class meeting we passed a resolution urging that the membership of the Alumni Council be reduced.

What I consider really news is when I finally hear from a classmate who lives less then 100 miles from Hanover but has been back only twice, the first time to attend a graduation of a cousin in 1925 and the last time within the last three years—and just for a few hours.

Ralph Richardson has written me at some length a very interesting letter, which starts out with the statement that he has not written because "I have not accomplished much to change or improve the status of mankind in general or of my immediate milieu in particular." He then goes onto recite a full page of elective and appointive offices which he has held, many of which he still holds in the town of Ayer and vicinity. My general feeling after reading his letter was that he has, in fact, accomplished a great deal to improve the state of mankind.

Ralph graduated magna cum and Phi Beta Kappa. As a pair of "Latin nuts," he and Robin Robinson kept up a correspondence in Latin for a period after graduation. Ralph attended Harvard Law School but found it not to his liking and transferred to the Harvard School of Government. He left that, without obtaining a graduate degree, to look out. for his widowed mother and a rather large quantity of real estate. Ralph also does title work for attorneys. He writes a weekly historical article for a local newspaper. He has never married. From his letter I gather that he has never had time. As a result of developing deafness, he has retired as town moderator after only 53 years in office and has had to curtail some of his other activities because a broken hip requires that he use a walker to get around.