1913

Bart and Renza Shepard had a trip to Japan and Hong Kong last spring traveling by jet plane all the way: Honolulu, Tokyo for several days, Kyoto, Osaka, Yokohama, Kobe, Bepper, Hiroshima, Manila, Hong Kong for five days, Seattle, Wash., for the Fair and home in time to have Alan Jr. arrive with Louise and the three girls, Laura, Julie and Alice. It was Alan's first vacation since the famous May 5, 1961. A big welcome awaited him in New Hampshire; parades in Derry, Manchester, and Concord. On June 10 at Hanover he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts, both honoris causa and summa cum laude. On June 13 he was presented "The Mariner's Medal" at Gloucester, Mass., and on the 14th was given the Godfrey Cabot award by the Aero Club of New England at a luncheon at the University Club in Boston followed by a motorcade through Boston's down town streets. After these exciting days Bart and Renza flew to California where at Sacramento Renza attended a luncheon given by the state Council of Women's Clubs at the California State Fair. Renza and Mrs. Carpenter, mother of Astronaut Scott Carpenter, addressed the meeting. Then to Houston, Tex., where Alan has moved along with the rest of the astronauts. Being parents of the first astronaut can be exciting and perhaps a little exhausting.

Stephen K. Perry and Alice have their tenth grandchild, a girl, Lyndell Scott Perry, at Lebanon, Nathaniel's daughter. Son Peter and Virginia are in Denver, Colo., at the V.A. hospital as a speech therapist. He is writing his doctorate thesis there. Gus, last March, was elected auditor for the town of Brandon, Vt.

Matt Gately in Buenos Aires, Calle Florida 99, asks that all mail to him go air mail as "nothing comes by steamer mail now or if it comes at all, it is too late to be of any use."

Dr. Robbins W. Barstow died on September 17, 1962 at the Stamford Hospital. Bob graduated with us in 1913 but has been listed with the class in which he entered. He was in Mardi, Turkey as a missionary of the American Board from 1910-1912.

Ed M. Stiles and Phyllis will be at the 50th next June, coming down from 755 Ross Ave., Penticton, British Columbia, where he has retired from Nelson, B. C.

T. D. Jewett returned late in August from a flying trip to Vienna to be with his granddaughter Sharon and husband "seeing much of Austria" and London where he called on the Earl of Dartmouth, as usual when he is in England. The Earl will not be able to come to Hanover for the opening of the Hopkins Center, as had been hoped, due to his health.

Secretary, Box 62, Potter Place, N. H.

Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.