THE FRANCES SHIMER QUARTERLY
find much support amongst the old pupils. Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer contemplate a trip to Europe in the summer.
Miss Mabel Mershon, who did work with Mrs. Hazzen and other vocal teachers in the Academy in recent years, is now instructor of music and drawing in the public schools of Portland, Ind. She trained the chorus and the members of the high-school orchestra for a public exhibition recently given in the auditorium of the town which was a great success, largely due to her work.
In the week of February 20 the executors of Mrs. Shimer's estate, Mrs. Isabel D. Hazzen, Mrs. Winona Branch Sawyer, and Mrs. Jessie Hall Miles were together at the home of Mrs. Sawyer in Lincoln, Neb., considering business in connection with Mrs. Shimer's estate. Mrs. Hazzen has been in the neighborhood of Lincoln during the winter, and it is hoped that on her way East in the spring, she may visit the Academy.
Mrs. C. M. Gregory Lansing, who will be remembered by many former students as one of the founders of the school in 1855, is living in Minneapolis. In June, 1907, Mrs. Lansing spent commencement week at the Academy much to the delight of many friends and former pupils. Though past eighty years of age Mrs. Lansing still enjoys very good health. She recently made a visit to her former home in New York State. The Academy is indebted to Mrs. Lansing for an encyclopedia contributed to the library.
Miss Abbie Wilson, '03-4, of Morris, Ill., visited during summer at the homes of Eileen Corland, in Sioux Falls, S. D., and Hazel Prom in Milton, N. D„ where she met Gertrude Beecher, also a former schoolmate in the Academy. A long letter telling her trip gives much news concerning old students—Blanche is married and lives in California; Mrs. Beth Collins Miller a proud mother of a daughter, born the day before Thanksgiving. Mrs. Miller is living in Austin, Ill., and has as a near neighbor Mabel Ryan, her room-mate at F. S. A.
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