Luella Eakins Merry

Letter
June 11, 1937

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1904 Program:

Present address: 111 Chestnut Street, Colwyn, Pa.

Luella Eakins was married last summer to Mr. Glenn Newton Merry of Evanston, Indiana.

Summer 1953 Alumnae Quarterly:
Luella Eakins sends her regrets. "My husband has been asked to teach in Austria during the month of June, so it looks as if I would be in Vienna at Commencement time.
My family? I have two sons; the older, Eugene, is living in Pittsburgh; he is with the Mine Safety Appliance Company. Our younger son, Robert, is a professor at Harvard. We are happy to have five grandchildren. Best wishes to all in the class.

Spring 1955 Alumnae Quarterly:

A brief card of greeting from Luella Eakins Merry sends best wishes to all 1903ers. She had just returned to New York after a visit to her son.

Spring 1957 Alumnae Quarterly:

A brief card from Luella Eakins Merry came just too late to be included in our last Quarterly. She mourns the loss of her sister, but has the comfort of having seen more of her in recent months because she and her husband had moved to Newtown just to be near her.

Fall 1957 Alumnae Quarterly:

Another member of the class sends us her life story outline and it makes me so proud to be one of such a group of active, forward looking women, carrying on their "education" while raising their families, helping their churches, and joining and often managing the most useful organizations of their communities. Such a one is Luella Eakins Merry, with her Child Study Group, her History Club, her Art Circle, her Red Cross, and P.T.A.

Spring 1959 Alumnae Quarterly:

Living from crisis to crisis is not good for our national health nor for our individual blood pressures, and Luella Eakins Merry joins us in our prayers for President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles in their efforts to bring about a better day.

Winter 1960 Alumnae Quarterly:

Anna Slease, Luella Eakins Merry, and Marion Dibert Suppes all send affectionate greetings.

Summer 1960 Alumnae Quarterly:

I had a note from Luella Eakins Merry, that I should have mentioned in our last Quarterly, in which she expressed her warm approval of the language laboratory idea, - so necessary in a world so much more closely drawn together than ever before, furnishing one powerful instrument for understanding and living in peace.

Spring 1962 Alumnae Quarterly:

Luella Eakins Merry and her husband are enjoying retirement where they watch the out-of-doors which is "so much more vital and vivid than in the city."

September 1971 Alumnae Quarterly:

Luella Eakins Merry and her husband enjoy their lilacs too, while they watch for the return of the birds. No one had to prepare our big patio for the hundred foot spread of dandelions so closely sown - a field of pure gold. "A poet could not but be gay in such a jocund company." Of course, they were promptly cut down. Just weeds!

Summer 1973 Alumnae Quarterly:

Luella Eakins Merry has been very ill, but is now better and able to use a walker. She enjoys walking around their grounds in the lovely hills of Newton, Conn. Her husband writes she is very happy, and her family makes her proud. Her older son, who has 4 daughters, lives in Pittsburgh and is the president of a mine safety company. The younger son, a Harvard professor of 25 years, lives in Lexington as has a son and a daughter who also live in Mass. She and her husband have been married 62 years. It is no wonder she is proud of her family.

Summer 1976 Alumnae Quarterly:

"I had a nice letter from Mr. Merry telling me that his wife (Luella Eakins Merry) had been bedriddden over two years and that he was not well, and therefore would not be able to answer any more letters." -Amelia Benson Bielaski

Winter 1979 Alumnae Quarterly:

Deaths
Luella Eakins Merry