1908

Larry and Dorothy Symmes, our world travelers, have been off. again to far-away places; this time behind the Iron Curtain. An interesting note from Larry upon their return goes on to say -

Back from behind the Iron Curtain. A most interesting trip, giving me assurance that I would riot like to live there. We had three weeks in Russia by bus taking in Leningrad, Novgorod, Kalinin, Moscow, Smolensk, Minsk and ending up in Warsaw, Poland. From there we went to Prague, a beautiful city still behind the Iron Curtain. We have slides that might be interesting to classmates some time.

One thing sure, there will be no revolt in Russia. They have so much more than they used to have. If any disturbances start, they will come from the satellites, Hungary, or Czechoslovakia, where they used to be free. Poland also offers possibilities. After Russia we spent several weeks in Italy, Switzerland and France driving our own hired car to visit unusual spots where we hadn't been before.

A note from Ben Knox written early in October states that Harry Rogers had been arguing with a heart attack for some weeks but at that writing, he was back at work for a few hours a day which turns bad news into good. Syd Ruggles says that there is little doubt that the heart trouble was occasioned by a very strenuous political difference of opinion between Harry and Governor Powell concerning the consolidation of some bureaus which Harry didn't want done and, by gosh, Harry won.

In the July American Forester is a several page report by our Ray Marsh entitled, "Giving Forestry a Place in the Sun." The quadrennial meeting of the Northern Forest Congress, comprising foresters from Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, was held in Stockholm. Ray gets around.

Last month Larry Treadway held a reunion of those who had been at Vero Beach and who wished to come to the luxurious Hotel Otesaga, Cooperstown, N. Y., same being but another pearl in the Treadway chain. In addition to Larry and Helen, Philand Clare Thompson and yours truly represented our class. About forty attended for four days, had a grand time and planned to reune again at Vero, come cold weather. That's the place to be then. Get on your horse and come down some time. You'll love it.

Art Hopkins writes that he is now in position to discuss operations on the abdomen. He had one a short while ago and enjoyed it very much (editorial license). He states that one of the doctors who cut him up was Dr. Kenneth Stearns '37, Mike's son who, he says, is a grand guy and one of the best in his line. Art is semi-retired in a manner which allows him to keep in touch with his old Forestry buddies. I am saving a jingle which he wrote for a future issue inasmuch as I seem to be doing pretty well on this one, as far as volume goes.

Earl Wiley and wife Hattie did a tour of New England, including Hanover last September, a highlight being an attempted trip to the Dartmouth Lodge at Warren, N. H., where they found nobody home except a big dog who seemed to protest their presence. With his usual presence of mind Earl decided to leave. They did the Lake Sunapee region and later spent a few days in Holyoke, Mass., where both Earl and I first saw' the light of day, returning to Columbus via the New York Throughway. Incidentally, Earle's recent speech at the Lincoln Sesquicentennial celebration was ordered placed in the Congressional Record by Senator Yarborough of Texas. Guess that's about as far as a guy can get. Congratulations.

Speaking of football games. General Knox and the writer of '08 - and I don't know how many others — sat through the rain at Harvard and saw our boys emerge triumphantly. At the Boston College game the week before, Pete McCarthy and I 'saw quite a different picture where we emerged unvictoriously but with backs unbent — or broken.

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