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Show 13 Dear 'g8 People:- Is it really true that we are to talk together again as we did so often in Room 26, Chicago Hall? I fancy, however, we may have more varied experiences to relate than in those days. Mine, however, have not been of the unusual order. I have had a very busy and happy year at home and find myself developing into a very domestic maiden. When I hear of the meeting of the '99 Art class I think of what I might be enjoying -then it is I find comfort in the thought that after all Culinary Art, which portrays burned hands, burned dishes, and not infrequently, burned pies and puddings, is the most fascinating. Certainly it is the most realistic. My German friends will be glad to know that I have one German scholar and that necessitates not a little study on my part. Some of my classmates who may have thought at times that I was half if not wholly heathen, would be pleased to look in upon my twenty S. S. infants, the dearest children in the world. I have been especially favored in seeing '98 people. Late in the summer a reunion at Beth Moore's, including a visit to the Exposition. At Thanksgiving time I was well initiated into the mysteries of school teaching, which made me almost wish that I could lend some experiences along the same line. I quite agreed with Fanny Duren when she wrote me that she was "longing for even the gaiety (?) of a'98 class party." I expect to visit Grinnell some time this spring, and hope to see ever so many of you '98 folks. I trust we are all planning for the 1900 reunion. Sincerely, BESSIE GALLAHER. Sloan, Iowa, Jan. 24, 1899. |