Chicago, Martch l6nd 1917.

Congracherlashuns frum

Rufe to Glen. deer glen i jest heerd as how you went an gone an dun it i figger it out u jest hadda do it so i doant blaim u a darnd bitt doant think 4 a minnit i blaim u u no me glen we bin pals 2 long 4 me to git soar butt ide like 2 no the fool pertiklers soze i can bennefitt by yure xperyance i figger that she got u corimered on a dy vann in a dark rume an u jest hadda popp thare must of bin no a scape so u kum up 2 the skratch like a man an poppt an nevver turnd a hare uv coarse u cuddent turn a hare ennyhow not havin none skarcly wen u seen how things wus bedded wy dident u suddently remember a bizness a pointment an xcuse yureself po lightly an sneek out but its awl 2 lait now an u must maik the bestovit but onestagod glen i wisht yude tipp me, off 2 the fool perticklers i allus hadda horrer ov dy vanns an dark rumes an ide like 2 no if thems wot gotcha wel ennyhow the gurl was sum lukky gurl to copp off a batchelder like u u no it i cum throo leep yeer o kay butt i doant mind tellin u glen i was skairt stif butt u no me glen ide like the fool pertiklers how she dun u soze i can play saif miself im pritty wize butt laydies is smartt little cusses an u gotta git up erly 2 git a hedovem ive notised that wile marrid men have better haves batchelders genrally hav better quarters (a joak) but its no joakin matter 2 bee marrid an u no i doant meen 2 bee rude butt i wud like fool pertiklers wel glen congracherlashuns ennyhow jest tipp it off 2 me wen i shall send back them babie slipers u give me an i must clothes now with yures respectibly yure ole pal

Rufe Chapin

p s plees send fool perticlers

The Philadelphia club publication, Quaker Rotes, has the following item about the marriage of the second president of the International Association: "Guess Glenn Mead wasn't laughing in his sleeve on Ladies Night when Stewart McFarland was giving him a form of proposal that he claimed 'would turn the trick.' For Glenn had already 'gone and done it' He was then an engaged man. Mrs. Mead was formerly Mrs. Agnes Auchinvole of Pasadena, Cal."

"Resurcht nd ideted by Wolgng Zegler, Histry Fella" 30 September 2003

Glenn C. Mead, of Philadelphia, was Rotary's second president and the first president of the International Association

The "announcement" by RI Treasurer Rufus Chapin was found in the May 1917 issue of The Rotarian under the heading "Observation Car."