1904

This month's news items carry sad news of the passing of two classmates, Peter Maguire and Arthur Warner. Pete was one of the best known members of the class; Arthur was the least known, having been with the class the last half of our senior year, only.

No class meeting was a success without the presence of Pete and King Woodbridge. It was always understood they agreed not to agree. When Pete, King and Herb McKennis got into an argument, it was like attending a Democratic Convention. A perusal of all fourteen class reports, with sketches of classmates, probably tells the least about Peter. Modest, retiring, with a philosophical mind, generous, sympathetic and understanding, these were the qualities of mind and heart which endeared him to all his classmates. We shall miss him very much.

Nice letter from Ike and Ida. He enclosed a watercolor sketch of the old Congregational Church on the Hill, in Lenox, Mass., a beautiful picture. Grandma Moses, Winnie Churchill or Ike Eisenhower couldn't have done better. Thanks. We were glad to learn the Charrons spent a part of the summer at their camp in New Hampshire. He speaks of a meeting once held in the office of Matt Bullock at which were present - Clarence Darrow, Paul, Pete, Ike and Matt. That session must have been something for the book. Ike will be 75 October 31.

Along with Sid, King, Leon, Bill Slayton and Jim Walker, your Secretary attended the convocation at Dartmouth September 5-7. It was a wonderful privilege to see, hear and meet, some of the outstanding figures in the public life of America, Britain and Canada.

"Race Harmony" was the subject of a talk recently given by Matt Bullock at the Green Acre Baha'i Institute of Boston. Dedicated to fostering religious and racial harmony, Matt is devoting most of his time to this work. He has given 30 years' service to Massachusetts as Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the State and as a member and Chairman of the Parole Board and the Advisory Board of Pardons. Fine work, Matt. We are all proud of you.

The Streeters enjoyed a boat trip this summer to France, sailing on the "Liberté" of the French Line.

The Fords from North Carolina report the arrival of another grandchild, their fourth - Anne Hollady Rodman, born September 5, '957. Grampa Dave is doing fine.

The most delightful experience of a class secretary is the privilege of sharing with its members in a very personal way wedding anniversaries, birthdays, the coming of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. I am in receipt of letters from the Witheys and the Da vises with grateful thanks for remembrances on their fiftieth wedding anniversaries. They wished me to express their deep appreciation of these tokens of our regard for them. The Witheys, with their five children, sixteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, had a family dinner. Quite a party. Mose and lola still have the class cup, given them at our thirty-fifth reunion.

Your Secretary has not done a very good job of keeping track of all the men who have been married 50 years or more. He finds in his records, that besides the Witheys and Davises, the Boyles, Durgins, Fletchers, Hardys, Hills, Hobbs, Lampees, Perkins, Scales, Slaytons and Walkers have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversaries and there are doubtless others, who have done so but we do not have the dates.

Of the 125 men who received their diplomas with the class, seventy-two have passed on. Your Secretary is making a careful check on the number of non-graduates who have died since the fall of 1900.

A 1905 trio on the Inn corner this summer: Lou Grover, Stan Besse and Fletcher Hatch.

Secretary, 100 North St., Pittsfield, Mass.

Treasurer, Morristown, N. J.

Bequest Chairman,