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At the annual meeting of the National Health Council held in Cincinnati in March, Doc O'Connor was elected president of that organization for the ensuing year. The National Health Council is comprised of voluntary health agencies that seek to coordinate activities for the promotion of the total health of the individual, the family and the community.

Again I must report the death of a classmate, "Caesar" Young, who passed away: at a Boston hospital on March 10, 1957 after a brief illness. Services were held at the home of his brother in Londonderry, N. H., attended by Mike Norton, Ben Adams and Pike Childs. Eddie Luitwieler attended services that were held in Boston.

At the Boston Alumni Dinner held at the Hotel Statler March 13, President Dickey outlined the College's $25,000,000 twelve-year building program to more than 600 alumni. 1912 was represented by Ben Adams, Mike Norton, Eddie Luitwieler, Fletcher Clark, Ben Hunt, Ralph Whitney and Chet Haycock, who was accompanied by his son Bob '52. Fletcher Clark also had a son at the 1912 table.

Ben Hunt took off on a trip to Sarasota, Fla., in March. From there he made a tour to Fort Worth, Tex. to visit his daughter Mary, and then to Chicago to see daughter Barbara Hunt Burner, who is with Marshall Field & Company as a job analyst, and happy in her position. Husband, Dave Burner '53, is attending Northwestern University Law School.

Syd Clark left in March for a trip to Japan via Manila, Hongkong and Macao, to gather material for one of his "All The Best" series of travel books. Syd says: "Obviously the tourist traffic to the Orient is only a trickle as compared to the traffic to Europe and Mexico, but it is clearly gaining fast. Also there are about ten books every year on countries such as England and France and, so far as I can learn, there is no book of my general type on Japan, so at least I have a clear field for a while." Upon reading of Syd's proposed trip in The Billboard, Art French wrote Syd from Holyoke, Mass., that he has a daughter living in Manila, whose husband is an attache at the U. S. Embassy, and Syd proposed to look her up during his five-day stopover in Manila.

Russell Taylor Weil, son of our late classmate, F. Taylor Weil, was married on March 23 to Virginia Louise Freeman of Delaware, Ohio. Miss Freeman, who received a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin and an M.S. degree from UCLA, is a member of the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. The bridegroom graduated from Harvard, cum laude, and from Harvard Law School. He is now associated with a prominent New York law firm, in its Washington office.

While I was at Georgia Warm Springs Foundation early in March, and Doc O'Connor likewise was absent from the city, we missed a visit from Ralph Tackaberry. He however promised another try the first week in April. A letter just received from him, mailed from Tryon, N. C., says: "I was all set to see you the first week in April, but have found such a wonderful place in the Carolinas that I cannot resist taking a little time for rest and relaxation." Hope to see Ralph before this is published.

You have already received from Henry Van Dyne information regarding our Class Informal Reunion to be held June 14, 15 and 16, 1957, at Lake Morey Inn, Fairlee, Vt. All who have previously attended these informal reunions know how pleasurable they are, with no set program whatsoever except the Class Dinner on Saturday night, and most of us remember how attractive Lake Morey is. Send in your reservations to Henry Van Dyne as soon as possible.

Lyme Armes has given you in the last issue of The Billboard the news he received from Husky DeMerritt, who has retired from his army life in Hawaii and, after a trip around the country, is now living at 1203 East 30th Street, Tulsa, Okla. There he and wife Anne are near her parents and only son, Dean Jr., who is an officer of the Admiral State Bank in Tulsa.

As you well know, the Annual Alumni Fund campaign is under way. Make it easy for Eddie Luitwieler by sending in your contribution right now and make it as big as you can so that Eddie can equal his last year's perfect record.

Al Smith took a trip to Yucatan in February, visiting the various ruins of the Mayan civilization there which he said are extremely interesting, and the descendants of the Mayan people are delightful. After a visit in Mexico City he spent the month of March in Florida, arriving back at the Cape the middle of April.

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