Travel Fever

Out of the Panama Canal Zone, by way of his home-town paper, the Woonsocket (R. I.) Call, comes news of Lester Sawyer Hoyle '37 and his globe-trotting. Starting his wanderings by leaving Hanover for the University of Virginia, he soon needed wider scope than this country afforded and has managed to collect experiences as well as curios from most of the pre-war countries of Europe, from Egypt, North Africa, the Azores, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican republic, and the Central American countries. Sandwiched in between trips abroad were visits home during which he organized and was president of the North Smithfield Young Republican Club, became a member of the New England Council of Young Republicans, and was named an assistant sergeant-at-arms for the last national Republican convention. Before he could attend, however, he had caught the travel fever again and was in Haiti.

High spots of Hoyle's wanderings are being lost in a mountaintop snowstorm in the Swiss alps and seeing Mussolini's triumphant return to Rome from the meeting with Hitler out of which the Axis was born. In Egypt he was once the volunteer "stooge" who held a cigaret in his mouth for Canadian sharpshooters to pick off with pistol shots. Lost in the Sahara desert, he emerged on camel back. He made the round trip from Damascus, Syria, to Bagdad, Iraq, by hitch-hiking in big motor vans. He fled Egypt and tropical fever on the advice of physicians after the American consulate paid his $49 hospital bill contracted during the bout. In Haiti, he climbed the highest mountain, was arrested as a

German spy, and investigated Voodooism.

Latest reports have Hoyle on a job at Gatum, the Canal Zone, but the itch has probably come back to his feet by now.