1906

Ned and Eleanor Redman are languishing around the Mediterranean, with the possibility of a side trip to India, while those of us who stay in the States are enjoying, or enduring the winter, depending on where we live. Some like it hot - and some cold. Remember when we came back to Hanover from Christmas vacation junior year - only yesterday - and the thermometer hit 40° below. Some of us made the walk up from Norwich station that night (thereby saving the quarter that a ride with Dud in his Deadwood Coach cost) continuously rubbing noses and ears to keep from freezing.

Here's the story of some, besides the secretary, who are not shoveling, or plowing snow this winter.

Charlie and Helen Howard sailed from New Orleans to Trinidad, Tobago, and the Barbados. They sure rate this after going through a rugged winter in lowa last year.

Charlie and Virginia Luck - last letter from Fiji — are touring the Pacific and the Orient for six months. That's a lot of ocean to cover whether by sea or air. They really should be taking in Alaska, and running the Dew Line to Greenland for a change, for they live in delightful Pasadena where the Tournament of Roses is held New Year's Day, while the ponds and hills hereabouts are thronged with skaters and skiers.

Holding down the front line, though, are good old Doctor Phil Chase and Beth at Salt Lake, where Phil still works with the Red Cross. Beth is still suffering from a badly damaged back as a result of an automobile accident last year. We sincerely hope that an operation this month will relieve the pain that she has been enduring so courageously.

Cap Pierce is now at a rest home in Pomona, Calif. (960 E. Harrison Avenue) a really wonderful lay-out of detached buildings and landscaped grounds, more like a country club, without the golf. Cap sent us a copy of one of his own compositions, "Christmas Peace." Wish that we could send one to each of the class - or best of all hear Cap play and sing it, which he does so beautifully. It's in five flats and is marked "For Medium Voice." My singing is in eight flats, more or less, and my voice somewhat less than medium.

Bill and Mary Page may be front runners in the great-grandparents race, with two boys and two girls in that bracket. We would like to hear from other contestants for the crown.

Madalyn Brock writes from her home in Kansas City. What a treat it was to see her at the reunion last June! Here's hoping that she doesn't wait another five years before coming back East.

We regret to report that Margaret Cochran has had a very serious stroke according to her sister Sarah (Mrs. Bill Bell). We pray that she, who has been so brave through the years, will make a complete recovery.

The class extends its sympathy to Elon Pratt in the loss of his wife Marabelle, who died in a nursing home on January 8 after an illness of three and a half years. At Dartmouth she will be particularly remembered for her donation to the College in October 1930 of a remarkable and valuable collection of 55 Egyptian amulets ranging from 4,000 to 6,000 years in age and said to be the most complete collection of its kind in existence.

Next month your secretary will be back on the job, and if he doesn't give a full account of his travels for the class, we will ignore his pleas for personal histories, even more than we have already - practically a black out.

Henry L. Stone '08 with his three greatgranddaughters (l to r) Jane Ellen Kimball, Cynthia Lee Stone and Susan Elizabeth Kimball.

Secretary, 30 Harrison Ave. New Canaan, Conn.

Treasurer, 9 Pond St., Newburyport, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,