My dear Classmates,

Round Robin reached me a second time this year. He was sent to me by Elizabeth DeBow Thompson from Drexel Hill who has written no letter. I have not seen nor heard from her for about twelve years except that she is one of Phila. High School's (Overbrook) fine music directors.

This letter finds me at our summer cottage at Mountain Home, Monroe County, Pa. where we have come for the last twenty years. Now the children are all away from home they take their opportunities to visit us week ends. One of our girls was very sick with pneumonia in March and she has been with us ever since recuperating. Last March the Conference moved us from the Norwood Church to East Stroudsburg Church. This is just sixteen miles from our summer home but ninety miles from Phila. Stroudsburg is the gateway to the Pocono Mountain Resorts so thousands of tourists and visitors come through our town. I want to tell you that I attended the commencement festivities at Goucher this year. Our class received a prize for the largest number in proportion to our size making contributions to the Scholarship Fund. The prize was a bag of gold covered chocolate coins. I was called to the platform and was given a questionnaire about early history of Goucher, etc.

I have been rather quiet the last eight months but have gotten along very well from my operation last December for gall bladder removal and soon hope to be more active.

I saw very few familiar faces around Goucher. I was the only 1903 representative at the Banquet and there were one or two 1902's and about four 1904s. As the years pass we are getting closer to the classes of 1892-3-4-5-etc. because I sat at the table of 1885 among some of them. I have enjoyed reading the letters- you are all doing worth while things to make life better.

Very sincerely yours,
Hattie Taylor Channell