My dear classmates:

For the sixth time the 'Robin' starts its flight. When it reached me in October and I read the requests that it should be continued even if a class letter were printed, I prepared the list of names in groups according to the geographical locations of your homes and am asking the last one in each group to be responsible for the letter while it is in her territory. Perhaps in this way we may hurry the letter around and not lose it for several months at a time. If you find you are too busy to write a long letter just put in a note of explanation.

You will be interested to know that I have the first class letter begun in September 1907 and coming back to me in 1910. Each subsequent letter has taken more time to go around and we are so anxious that this letter should go as far as possible before our reunion in May, 1930. I hope the former letters may be there and if you want to see what you have been doing these last few years, please come to the reunion and read what you have written.

The committee chosen in 1928 to plan for this reunion will write you the things 1903 is to do and I do hope we may all be there to do our part. In addition, 1903 has more daughters now at Goucher than any other class and five are to be graduated next June. Besides, it may be our last reunion while the college is in the city amid surroundings familiar too you. You will want to see the new campus and watch the new campus as it grows.

Since leaving college, I have been absent from only two class reunions - 1913 and 1925 - and every one has been such a great pleasure. We fall into our old places among our classmates and the years and cares fall away. The girls may be in larger 'packages' than they once were or thin when once they were plump or the hair may be gray but the dear familiar personalities are there and oh, what a pleasure to be with them again. I wish I might tell you what these reunions have meant to me but I dare not get started. Margaret Hukill, Edith Powell, Anna Slease, and Nanne Weakley have told you something of 1928. Come and see how 1930 will be.

The first 'Robin' was started just after I was married and as I reread that group of letters, I felt more than ever the changes that have come to most of us. Most of us have lost loved ones. My own dear parents have both passed away since I last wrote and I know only too well the heartache of those who have had like sorrow. I have been with Mabel since her husband's going and Know how brave our classmates can be. You will remember that I was Mabel's maid of honor, have visited in her home, and know well what a fine man John was.

I know Olive's husband and Nan's and Hattie Taylor's and Claire's and we should meet many more of them in 1930. I am going to take mine if I can because our Margaret is to be graduated in Richmond, Virginia, at Westhampton College. It is about the size of the Woman's College when we were there and she has been very happy and has done good work. Robert is a junior at Amherst too busy to write his mother whether he has seen Edgar Taylor, Margaret's son or Bruce Bielaski, Millie's son, this year or not. Frances, the baby of thirteen enters ninth grade in January and takes up Latin, Algebra, etc. I'll hope to have some pictures in June but have none now.

This fall I have tried to be very sensible and not have too many responsibilities outside the home. I have always been active in the Women's Foreign Missionary Society because I enjoyed it and now I work because Mother loved it. Last year I was chairman of the Home and Education Department of our Woman's Club and this year am on the board. Bonnie Marshall, ex. '01 is corresponding secretary. We have a very interesting PTA in the High School that Francis attends but I have not attempted any work in Adult Education either there or in the AAUW.

During the summer May Kellar, Goucher '98, was with me and we had several Goucher gatherings. There are so few of us in Iowa that we celebrate when you come in from outside so do let me know if any of you are to be in Iowa.

My typing is not expert but it may make reading a little easier and make my letter occupy less space. Will you use both sides of the paper when you write and the letter will not be so heavy.

With love to you all and the hope that I shall meet you all in Baltimore in May and that the years that intervene before I see 'Robin' again may be happy ones for you, I remain

Your old friend,
Alice Dunning Flick

P.S. I am wondering if you have all known of Clara Kellogg's death. Her letter was written shortly before it. And Rinnie Philp's too. I have a note from the latter's husband telling me how dear to Rinnie her college memories were.