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K. Asakawa who was operated on for gall stones and appendicitis in August was last reported as on the road to recovery and spending a few weeks at Clarkland. Tim Lynch and Detta motored to Colorado during the summer, incidentally inspecting some mining property in which Tim is interested.

Joe Hobbs visited Nova Scotia and the New York World's Fair as a part of his vacation.

Walter Eastman retired as general passenger agent of the Grand Trunk-Canadian National Railways August 15, after a long period of service in several capacities. There may be a special article later in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE on this item.

Peddy Miller has been very successful with the American Seminar sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee at Wolfeboro this summer, where they have been carrying on courses in American Community Life and English for the benefit of foreign refugees. All the students were highly educated and were in the words of Peddy "in sufficient number to establish a complete university." The New York Times Magazine of Aug. 18 had a full page article with photos giving an excellent report on the school, of which Peddy was the head of the faculty.

We note with sadness the passing of three classmates since the last issue of these notes: Jordan, Lyster and Hodgkins.

Two weddings of interest to ninety-niners took place during the summer: August 3, Caroline Foster Eastman, daughter of Walter R. Eastman, and Frank Edmund Palmer Jr. at LaGrange, I11.; and June 27, Louis T. Benezet and Mildred Jean Twohy at Portland, Oregon.

On May 19 in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Roger Warren Barney was ordained by Bishop Manning of New York as a deacon of the Episcopal Church and on May ai he graduated from the Union Theological Seminary. For the next year he will be with St. John's Parish, Waterbury, Conn.

The 100 th anniversary of Clarkland was celebrated with a party in the style of a country fair with all the fixings only everything was free. The day, August 3, was perfect and the guests filled the ample grounds of Clarkland as they had never been filled before. Of course we all had a grand time. Ninety-niners were numerous and prominent including Benezet, Donahue, Hawkes, Irving, Lynch, Mailer, Richardson, Sanborn, Silver, and Spear, eleven in all, with several wives.

Secretary, York Village, Me

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