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(*t' the matter lay with both of iis.
I was tliiiiking what 1 would ask
the head librarian and he was read
in*:' a look and walkinjr at the same
lime. We had to sit down and talk
of eourse. lie’s a stock-broker^—
Wall Street. lie’s still rather ([uiet,
brilliant, thon^h. He always was.
Do yon realize that onr class has
qnite a i'eAv politieians amonr its
members? Actiially, Bnt there is
no need to tell you about Confjress-
man Josepli Bennett. He finally
jrot that anti-lynchinf>: bill passed,
you know. Eldon MeLean.—lte was
our class president.” is the Ameri
can Minister to Haiti. Somethinp:
to be proud of, isn’t it?
Let me see, that’s almost half of
till* class 1 have accounted for,
isn’t it? I didn’t stay in Chica"o
so very lonjr. Jennie Baird and
Prettlophine Simmons are there
They are stylists—^^vorkin}r tofreth-
er. .leiuiie sclents anxious to pro back
Sn)th.
I didn’t find anyone I knew very
well when I came to the extreme
^\•est coast aii.d so 1 worked fer_
vwitly on my job. I did a bit of
sij'htseeinsr, of course. You know—
all things you read about. 1 listed
them while I \vas ridinp;, and fort-
tunately A\as able to see at one
time or another everything I liad
listed.
I came back on the Southern
route partly in. order to see St.
Aug. and partly because I had
seen so many St. Aug. graduates
and was interested in seeing if I
could discover the whereabouts of
some others. I ran into Vennay
Battle in Mississiiipi. She is Dean
of Women at Rust College. I spent
a very e^ijoyable afternoon with
Rose Iluggins in Greenville. She’s
personnel M’ork at home there. I
always knew .she’d be a social
worker or a dietitian. She seemed
inclined that way. John Ilenrv i‘;
j)racticing medicine in, South Caro
lina. He’s married and is very
])rosperous.
St. Aug. hiasn’t changed much.
The students seem older than W0
did w3ien we were f.h'ere. T'.'ev
were so short then, you know.
They’n^ tallei’—much more Tuature.
Nannie Farrar is matron in, the
Thomas Building and Rosa Hall
is librarian. Rosa, they tell me, is
very set in her ways. Oh—and
Vanya is getting along nicely. But
I alwaj^s thought she’d be a juirse.
I stayed at St. Aug. about three
days. P’unny thing—do you know
what the students had for break
fast yesterdaj'? Do you remember
what we had ever day—t>n years
ago? My de«r, St. Aug. is still St.
Aug.
In Washington I found or at
least heai-d about the remaining
mombfrs of the Cla.ss of 1040.
Richard Horsley is there—a critic
on World Affairs. A high.clas,s re,
norter. He c«lled me up and we
had lunch together. He’s terribly
busy but we talked for about an
]u)ur. He told me that Perce Har_
ris is studying piano in Cermany
under some great musician. I’m
flfraid I’ve forgotten his name. I
probably couldn’t spell it if I
could remember. Ada Simpkins is
doing missionary work in China.
1 was glad to konw that. Rose did
not know where I could find Ada.
She said when I was in Sotith
Carolina that she hadn’t the
vaguest notion Daniel Summers is
chef at the AVhite House‘, if you
please.
I made no more stops between
W^a.shington and home. On the*
train,, while thiukin" about e\'er_
fhin^r. I discovered that I had not
found Waltpr Durham. I bought
an Afro in Richmond and my