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Class of 1916, also a Beta - so we got along famously all evening. He has identical twin daughters 14 who are majorettes on the Canton High band.  It was a really good party -- all stag including entertainers - drinks free and all you wanted. Dinner was delicious - steak smothered in mushrooms, some thin fried potatoes that were unique in my experience. I sat between George Law and Tinkey. We all had to rise and make remarks which didn't come hard although my heart thumped hard at first. Jim Shane presided - his first meeting - and he did a remarkably fine job. He is only a rough and ready railroader with little education - doubt if he ever finished high school, but I admired his poise and his sincerity; when he told them that one of the men couldn't be there tonight because his boy had been in a bad auto accident, wasn't expected to live, and the father wanted to spend every minute he could with him at the hospital, a lump came into my throat.

After dinner most of the crowd returned to the bar and the sociability continued until after midnight. We saw more of Jim then and I think it was worth while. He offered to invite me to Canton when the 65 ton Plymouth Flexomotive is in to have the transmission rebuilt, as I "can really see it when it's tore apart and see the construction of it" and I told him I'd love to come. Also he wants to show us some narrow gauge jobs over there for diesel applications. We mixed with the whole crowd and I felt remarkably well at home with them. One old engineer had been in the "Maine" when it went down. George Law has a propensity for talking a lot and very seriously too, and when he