Dear Classmates,

'Round Robin' has been with me for a week. Only today have I been able to read the interesting letters. I miss Anna Haslup and read with appreciation her last letter.

My first trip back to Baltimore after 1903 was a delightful motor one when the 421 campaign was begun. The maples of Baltimore looked particularly golden that fall and we were all charmed with Goucher's new campus site. I think our girls who have been able to send daughters are very fortunate. I shall have to be content with colleges nearer home.

I was fortunate in getting to Baltimore for the 1928 reunion just for the weekend. I enjoyed seeing our girls but really was surprised to find how the years had left their marks upon us. Just the other day I woke up to the fact that in the next thirteen years I must put all my effort into my teaching for that is all the time I shall have.

Since my last letter most people would say I had had many misfortunes but I can truly say that God's hand has been in it all. In 1924 the widow of my brother, who had been killed in an automobile accident in 1916, died. She with my brother's three children had lived with us after my brother's death. Many of our friends thought we should separate the children but my parents and I loved them and felt they ought to grow together as a family. So they are with my mother and me still, and a great joy to us. In October of 1926, my niece, Janet, took scarlet fever and developed complications so that she had a mastoid and then a brain abscess from which four doctors thought she could not recover but after five months' careful nursing in our well managed Municipal Hospital she came home well. Home. In the meantime I had an attack of appendicitis and was hurried to Mercy Hospital the week before Christmas, the doctors expecting me to be home in two or three weeks. I was not strong enough for the operation and was very ill, developing glandular trouble and then erysupelas, so that I, too, was sent to the Municipal Hospital where Janet and I in different departments were until we were permitted to go home March 4. Col. Schoonmaker, who had been my father's colonel in the Civil War, invited us all to go to Atlantic City when we were able to travel. That trip of three weeks with the brisk walks and the ocean breezes gave us all new life. Father was much better for a while then grew weaker. Mother during all the ordeal of sickness kept her poise and faith in God and is still with us, jhelping to solve our many problems. She is happy to hear over the radio so many things that keep her in touch with life.

My older niece, Virginia, was eighteen in January, 1929, an dhas just passed creditably her first mid-year examinations at Ohio Wesleyan University. I hope Alice Belt Soper may get to know both my girl and James Trosh as connected with her Goucher classmates. Janet is in 10 at Langley, a Pittsburgh high school in the section of the city where we live and where I now teach. Clyde, who is twelve, is in second year junior high. He wrote to congratulate Hoover after the election and received a very nice reply. He and I are going to Washington for our Easter vacation because Clyde wants so much to see Washington.

School work is much more strenuous than it used to be. Our day is from 8:25 to 3:45 and usually requires several more hours but I increasingly feel that if we teachers and parents can do our work right the world's problems will not be so difficult. Our Langley High School looks like a castle and is a delightful place to work.

Could we not each write a letter for 'Round Robin' sometime during 1930 and send it to Alice? After our letters are all in, have them printed and repeat that every five years? That would keep us in touch with each other in a convenient way. Perhaps pictures sent with the letters could be sent around as 'Robin' has been. They would be lighter and could be seen quickly and then sent on. Perhaps, though, if we had our letters printed we should not feel so free about telling about our personal lives. However we decide to carry on 'Round Robin' I hope the institution may be maintained.

With my best wishes to you all.

Yours sincerely,
Anna M. Slease