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Please look in June issue for further details both on alumni fund, and on August 3 Round-Up at Highway Hotel, Concord, N.H.

More news as promised about Herb Rogers. He hopes to come to August Round-Up with a friend, or with daughter Virginia. Telephoned March 31, seventeenth birthday of the latter's son Billy. Herb has found some pleasant acquaintances in the 275-unit apartment block just around the corner from his daughter. A window humidifier has made him more comfortable in warm weather. "I don't mind the noise of the numerous children. I wish sometimes I could get out and play with them myself." His other daughter Barbara and husband Phil Bachelder have had a combined business and vacation trip to South America. Their son Alan is a sophomore in Auburn College, Alabama. The late winter hurricane passed them by, but frosts killed their flow- ers.

Agnes (Mrs. Herbert L.) Watson in Belmont is better and hopes to be at the Round-Up. "Now (end of March) ice is gone from Fresh Pond, and the big boys are playing baseball. But three weeks earlier, friends driving to Sunapee State Park had to climb snow banks at intersections to read directions. Luckily the man was nearly seven feet!"

One of our nicest holiday cards was from Ellie and Roy Blanchard. Norwich. Ellie is Nelson Brown's daughter, and so Prexy Tucker's granddaughter; now she herself has a grandchild - Frank Reynolds Bean Jr. - parents, Sally Blanchard and Frank Bean '63. The card showed this couple when married a year ago, and also brother Curtis B. and his wife Betsy, both seniors at R.I. School of Design. To go to their graduation Ellie "will have to pass up her own 35th reunion at Smith."

Peddy Miller's daughter Gustova ("Stovy") Brown after her year with Petra's family in Germany secured a position in charge of medical supplies in Veterans' Hospital, Jamaica Plain; present address: Apt. 12, 10 Dana St., Cambridge. Petra, Johnny and the two children last summer vacation crossed the Swiss and the French Alps, also the Pyrenees and Sierra Estrella in Portugal, with visits both in that country and in Spain.

A letter written "On board Tug Mobil #10 at Middletown, Conn.," reports that a year ago Horace Sears' son Alfred married Ruth Brown Farnsworth, widow of Commander Dean Farnsworth, U.S.N. Son Joel by a previous marriage is himself in the U.S.N, on Tug Samoset at Norfolk, Va. Last September Ruth and Alfred spent a week on their 22-foot catboat off Block Island enjoying the International Yacht Races.

Muriel (Mrs. Gus) Heywood and Sadie (Mrs. Eddie) Skinner enjoy their life as neighbors in Worcester. Telephone calls, or sharing letters, or a taxi afternoon call make them both less lonely. Muriel is alone most nights, and Sadie is alone days, but each has a companion-helper part of the time. Sadie had a long ride out Amherst way to see the foliage in the fall, and Muriel went by bus to Berlin, where her brother Charles picked her up and drove her to her Upton cottage; then occasional trips to Bucksport. "I have a fresh coat of paint on my cane, so I can walk the country roads to my heart's content." Sadie had Christmas dinner with her neighbor across the street. Plumbing repairs at Sadie's, painting at Muriel's that Ed and Gustin used to do. Ed's chair still stands under the birch tree where he used to sit to watch the ball games in the Park.

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