1936

Now that the mid-winter revels are over we can all greet Twelfth Night with relief and joy. All of us hope not only for a Happy New Year but for a twelve-month period of vigorous success and peace.

Don Erion and his family have much to be thankful for and are undoubtedly looking forward to a year calling for substantial readjustment. While home with a mending broken hip Don was awakened in the early morning by his daughter, Judith, 21, a junior at Wheaton College, with the word the house was on fire. Four members of the family fled the second floor of the house by means of a human chain fashioned by Don. Despite the broken hip he balanced himself against the window sill and lowered each member of the family in the house to a safe dropping distance from the ground. Mrs. Erion, Judith, Eleanor and Don all emerged safely. Don Jr., Bruce and Linda were spending the night at Lake Sunapee.

One of our college presidents, Lou Benezet,.is moving forward on schedule and in high gear in his building program for the development of Colorado College, Colorado. Already a new library and new science building have been dedicated as part of a $7,500,000 building objective. Most recent structure to get underway is a $1,200,000 sports center, of which the swimming pool and ice skating rink are scheduled for completion next spring.

Digging deeply into the mine of information on hand I came across word from sometime ago that Bob Prentice, Theo, and boys last summer toured the National Parks — 7000 miles - with a small house trailer they rented in Denver. Saw the Rockies, Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Zion, Bryce, Dinosaur, etc. Technical note: Bob thought he would never "learn how to back the damn thing up" although the trip was great fun.

Paul Zens, executive secretary of the New Mexico Independent College Association, writes: "I often say that living and working in New Mexico is almost like living and working in the United States. An occasional trip to Texas confirms this belief, with the added comfort that living in an alien (Hispano-Indian) culture is not so bad after all. Further to complicate the problem of deciding Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing? Where am I going? is the fact of living under the shadow of Los Alamos where they make bombs and live in a withdrawn and secret way - a colony of mad scientists; plus residing in the middle of the art colony of Santa Fe, a group of expatriates not unlike the old Cafe du Dome crowd of the twenties; all in a mixture of scenery and climate, which are at once magnificent and malevolent. Maybe the Existentialists have something, after all." From president of Marlboro College, Vermont, to raising money in the above atmosphere is some change.

Greatly appreciated Bob Morris's invitation to come West where he has been practicing law, he says, for "100 years" with the same firm.

Ran across the excellent sheet Art Appleton put together on his family. He and Martha, with four boys and a daughter, are busy. Appleton Electric, of which Art has been president for seventeen years, also needs some attention along the way.

Courtney Catron, who has been active in the national enrollment committee for the College, keeps boiling along as president of Gray Reid Wright Co., Nevada's largest department store; chairman of the Board of the Hancock Foundation; vice president of Continental Capital Corporation, a small business investment corporation; and president of Stone Products Co.

John L. Lewis used to say that he who toodleth not his own horn, said horn is not toodled, so, thirty-sixers, rise from whence the woodbine twineth and the whang doodle whangeth and write me of you and yours for the benefit of this column.

Secretary, 536 Washington Bldg. Washington 5, D. C.

Treasurer, 139 Burbank Rd., Longmeadow 6, Mass.