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Show Maeser Family Has Reunion At Crandall Home. Approximately 50 relatives assembled as-sembled at the home of Mrs. Eva M. Crandall Sunday for the annual an-nual Maeser family reunion. The purpose of the get-togethers is to work up an interest in genealogy work. Attending the reunion from out-of-town were: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Madsen, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Beesley, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Beesley and two children, Teressa Beesley, Marie Johnson, Joyce and Lorraine Beesley, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cannon, Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Crandall and children all of Salt Lake City; Miss Georgia Maeser, Mrs. Mabel Tanner, Evelyn Eve-lyn Thompson and Mrs. Beatrice Mitchell and two daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Webster, Provo; Mrs. LaPreal Bond of Mesa, Ariz.; Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Crandall and two daughters of Spanish Fork. Also attending were Kent Cobb and Mrs. Alice Sherwood who with Mrs. Crandall are the only three remaining direct descendents of Mrs. Maeser, who came here from German in 1856. An interesting part of the afternoon af-ternoon was the presentation of a silver pitcher which was a gift to Dr. Carl G. Maeser from the students at the BYU in 1891, to ! Miss Georgia Maeser, in recognition recogni-tion of heir fine work in genealogy. genea-logy. Each year the pitcher is given to a member of the family j to keep for a year, in recognition ', of some outstanding worK wnicn they have done. An attendance prize was also presented by Mrs. Crandall and it went also to Miss j Maeser. Interesting letters were read . i by Mrs. Crandall from the wife of her grandson, Fred Crandall, which stated that Fred was now on a submarine out in the sea and would not be able to correspond or write to anyone for about six weeks. Fred's brother Allen, is serving with the navy at Newport, New-port, R. I., it was stated. |