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John Redington's wife, Lynda, in order to be near her sister, Mrs. Sydney Smithers and family, has moved from Baltimore, Md., to 1030 Broadway, Red Hook, N. Y. We trust she will find much happiness in her new home.

George Tong is slightly dubious about Chicago winter weather. If and when Old Boreas kicks up too much fuss, he will seek a warmer clime for the winter months. It is known that Chicago is a windy city, and that the breezes blowing off Lake Michigan can be very uncomfortable to any unfortunate caught outdoors. At times even in Libertyville, as in Hanover, "The great white cold stalks abroad." Since George is a free agent, if the cold begins to strengthen, he may take off for Florida, Arizona, or California. To the best of my knowledge, he has not mentioned Hawaii or the palm-fringed atolls of the Pacific.

The latter part of November Arthur Virgin's wife, Jeannette, was in Toronto, Canada, where she attended the Royal Winter Fair, and where she exhibited some of her Jersey cattle.

Ned Bigelow is one of our active members who gets about the world. That is to say, various parts of the U.S.A. and Europe. This past summer the Bigelows spent several weeks enjoying the luxurious appointments of the Wentworth Inn at Portsmouth, N. H. After relaxing in Florida during the winter months, they took off by plane the middle of April for El Paso, Texas. There they hired an automobile (presumably a "drive-it-yourself") and drove 2,000 miles in and around New Mexico and Arizona. Ned loves the Southwest, and this was a most satisfying and enjoyable trip for him. To still further prove that Ned and his wife are devoted globe-trotters, they admit to five trips to Europe since World War 11. At our 60th reunion we might draft Ned for a travelogue on Europe, the Southwest, or the American and Canadian Parks. Perhaps he would turn out to be a Stoddard or Lowell Thomas.

India is attracting much attention today both for what some Americans think is its political intransigence, and for its determined economic and cultural struggle as an independent nation. A well-known newspaper correspondent recently said: "India is engaged in a great adventure. It is the adventure of men trying, as best they can, peacefully to create order from turmoil, unity from divergence, decency from degradation, progress from stagnation." Actively engaged in this adventure is Mary Oppliger, daughter of Harold Hastings. Harold writes me:

"Mary and her husband are living in Amoral northeast of New Delhi, in a healthful hill country within sight of the Himalayas in Nepal. They like the Indian people whom they find very hospitable. Mary has learned enough Hindi to converse with people unfamiliar with English. She has become interested in traditional medicine and therapy, and goes about with a doctor, educated in Europe, who uses both traditional and modern medical methods, and helps him, I infer, in the way of follow-up treatment. She says the old ways are often better for the simple country folk. She is impressed with the poverty of the great majority of the people. Mary and her husband have come to feel very much at home in India, and it looks as if they might spend the rest of their lives there."

Herbie Trull reports that he is in good health, eats three square meals a day, still drives his car, and does quite a little puttering around the house. He and his wife take a drive nearly every day. Recently they were in Westford, Mass., visiting Mrs. Trull's relatives where there are many young people. Herbie says it is like one great big family, that they have a grand time on these visits, and he claims this is one reason why he keeps active. He writes, in an arresting sentence, "We have no time nor desire to grow old."

Minot Fowler's son, J. Minot Jr., Dartmouth '37, a graduate of Tuck School and the Harvard Law School, is engaged in public accounting. For a number of years he was connected with a large Boston accounting firm. Since 1955 he has been accountant for The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston.

Photo by Jack Garfein '21 Robert F. Leavens '01 (left), who could not be present at the Hanover ceremony in September,accepts his Wheelock Bowl from Guy P. Wallick '21, Alumni Council president, in SanFrancisco. His classmate Mortimer L. Crowell '01 is at the right.

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