1922

Nearsighted scouts peering through the rain at the Brown game report the following Twoters, or reasonable facsimiles thereof, seen in Hanover: Bob and Lois Booth,Harry and Peg Bruckner, Jack and FranDodd, Killy and Elizabeth Kilmarx, AlLyon, Len and Margaret Morrissey, JackTaylor and Dick Willis.

And, as usual, the Class had a goodly turnout at Harvard: Elmer and Frances Ardiff, Gray and Dorothy Bates, Bob and Lois Booth, Bob and Grace Clark, Haskell and Harriet Cohn, Al and Hortie Crampton, Carroll and Nan Dwight, Tony and Eleanor Hanlon, Carter and Alie Hoyt, Fran and Lucy Leland, Dick and Mary Litchfield, Al Lyon, Bill and Betty Mann, Len and Margaret Morrissey, Ced and Emma Porter, Russ Putney, and most welcome - Reine Tredennick and daughter Sue, Walt and Doris Sands, and Spenney Smith.

Robert M. Dewey has been appointed a senior executive of the Kemper Insurance Group in Chicago. Earlier this year Bob returned from Rio de Janeiro where since 1958 he was vice president and manager of American Motorists Insurance Co., a Kemper division. Since his graduation from college and from Thayer School as a civil engineer in 1923, he has had 38 years' experience in the insurance business. Expect to see you and Elizabeth at reunion, Bob.

By yodel from Switzerland comes the note that Stan and Catherine Miner have arrived in Zurich where they are beginning a tour of Europe by visiting daughter Catherine, wife of Ronald T. Murphy '55. Stan retired from the New York Telephone Co. last spring. After spending two months at their home in Gaysville, Vt., Stan and Catherine started off for nine months in Europe with Zurich as the first stop. While overseas Stan plans to visit several alumni clubs and give them the latest news from Hanover.

Stan also reports very good news about Al Curtis: "Catherine and I had lunch with Al and his wife Jessica at their delightful apartment in Basel, Switzerland. I called him up as we were going north to Heidelberg and he insisted we have lunch and very pleasant it was. He had just returned from a business trip to Brazil. Al is overseas representative of Elexso Corp., world leader in photoelectric color sorting. He showed me some of the jobs their machines do such as sorting vegetables by color for packing purposes. Al is in good health, very busy and extremely cordial."

Concluding a highly successful administration, Laurence C. Campbell of Barre, Vt., has retired from the presidency of the New Hampshire-Vermont Blue Cross organization. He is succeeded by Lester E. Richwagen '23, administrator of the Mary Fletcher Hospital at Burlington. After serving as vice president, Larry became president of the Blue Cross four years ago. Under his leadership the plan has grown to include more than 400,000 members. Interested in hospital affairs for many years, Larry is a trustee of the Barre City Hospital and a former president of the Vermont Hospital Association.

Indians on new camp sites: Matthew J. Cassin, Box 176, Oroville, Wash.; Frederick W. Dyer, 23 Hutchinson Drive, Hampton, N. H.; Ray A. Ellis, 1315 Leegate Road, N.W., Washington 12, D. C.; Harry M. Griswold, 450 S.E. 5th Terrace, Pompano Beach, Fla.; Sheldon T. Hare, 48 Auburn St., Concord, N. H.; Albert T. Lyon, Martin Reel Co., Box 8, Mohawk, N. Y., or Vickerman Hill Road, Mohawk, N. Y.; Stanley P. Miner, c/o Mrs. Ronald T. Murphy, Hugelstrasse 7, Zurich 2, Switzerland.

The spirit of Christmas shines in the story of Hal and Mabel Fraser and their children. Headlined by the Burlington Free Press, "Couple Who Came To Vermont For Quiet Life Provide Home For Five Lively Children," here are a few of the heartwarming highlights:

Hal and Mabel moved seven years ago to North Duxbury, Vt., to be with their daughter, Deborah Ann and her husband. Settling down to stay, the Frasers bought a 285-acre farm with a "see off" of the Winooski River Valley and the mountains. Hal, who Mabel says was "a city man who scarcely knew from which end of a cow milk came," found himself busy in the dairy business and enjoying it.

Mabel's time was not so fully occupied. So, when a minister suggested the Frasers take a foster child to rear, the idea appealed to them. Thin, little Bill, eight-and-a-half years old and "needing love" was the first to join the family. Bill brought so much happiness that a year later the Frasers took David, fifteen, from a hospital where he was recovering from critical burns. David proved a most welcome addition, so the family added Stanley, eight, to its circle. And a year or so ago, two little sisters, Mary and Shirley, joined the family. In their previous lives, the children knew rejection, poverty, even physical abuse. Now they are learning about God and love.

Mabel says "We treat them and love them as if they were our own and when we must discipline them we make sure they under- stand that we still love them though we do not love the wrong thing they did."

Running a home for nine persons, including Deborah Ann and her husband who both work, requires all of Mabel's time and strength. She concentrates on good meals, clean clothes and clean beds and doesn't fidget about minor disorders. She says, "One never knows mental strength or physical strength until they are tested." And she cheerfully adds "I am never bored."

Hal and Mabel have their compensations: The joy of a child seeing his very own birthday cake with the lighted candles; Christmas with a tree gathered from their own pasture and special gifts for each child; the little child fresh from a bath confiding "Oh, Mommy, it's so nice to be clean," and how the heart glows when one knows this child once slept on a dirty old coat on the dusty floor of a bare room. As for Hal, he says, "Mabel and I would be just old fuddyduddies without the children."

It gladdens the soul to have folks like the Frasers in the class family. May all our Christmases be as joyous as theirs.

A gala gathering of the Class of 1923 took place recently at the Michigan farm ofSumner Sollitt. Attending were: (l to r) front row, Eugenie Turnbull, Mary Williams,Dorothy Kimball, Elinor Metzel, Marion Cook, Bettye Sollitt, Cornelia Freeman,Florence Miner, Jeannette Rice, Vera Conley; second row, Ted Shapleigh, HaroldConley, Bob Maxwell, Mike Turnbull, Ted Miner, Chet Bixby, Irish Flanigan, BillJuergens, Warren Cook, Bill Kimball, Barbara Bixby, Major Bird, Art Everit, MiriamHome, Leonard Turnbull, Adah Everit, Truman Metzel, Ginny Pope, Dud Pope,Charlie Rice; back row, Sumner Sollitt, Sam Home, Karl Williams, Leon Freeman.

Secretary, 46 Myrtle St. West Newton 65, Mass..

Treasurer, 111 Laurel Rd., Chestnut Hill 67, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,