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While cutting up this year's Christmas cards for next year's gift tags - a trick my Scottish grandfather learned at the knee of his grandfather - I had a chance to reread the notes some of you sent with holiday greetings. If you feel this month's column is slim it's because not all of you chose this simple method to bring me and the Class up to date on your dealings and wheelings. But to those who did write - wives included - my grateful thanks and an extra measure of good cheer for 1964. More than a few seem to have either just moved, or are about to move, into new houses. For example, Leeand Bob Lake picked up stakes before the last needle had fallen from the tree and headed farther out on Long Island to a bigger place in Locust Valley. Bob has a slightly longer commute to lower Manhattan and the Procter & Gamble office, but sons Tom and Steve are glad the family sailboat can be moored closer to home base.
Scotty and Loomie Rogers were celebrating their first Christmas in their recently purchased home in Shaker Heights - their old stamping grounds before they moved to California six years ago. For weeks they ve been knee-deep in painters, carpenters, plasterers, and other assorted workers, but all is completed now and they are getting used to seasonal tennis instead of year-round tournaments.
Other Clevelanders, Mevie and Eb Cockley, have been building a new home which was ready for a housewarming the middle of January. I wonder if Eb, champion rose gardener that he is, remembered to dig under the snow and move his prize bushes.
Lois and Bill Duncan were playing Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus for their three girls in a new-old location this year out in Chicago-land. It is in the same suburb though so Dune doesn't have to learn a new tram schedule - just remember which turn to take coming out of the station on the way home.
Other nuggets of news gleaned from cards, a fact which makes me doubly grateful for the holiday season, reveal that Marilyn andMac Cross are still holding forth in Danville Ga. Martha, their oldest, is a junior at Smith and hopes to work in Paris next summer. Mac Jr., number one son, is a senior in high school casting eyes at several Ivy League schools including his dad s Alma Mater. Janet and Lew Chipman pleased us with the news that they will be up here for Carnival — wish more felt the need for a mid-winter spree on the Hanover Plain. They are keeping their fingers crossed that the germs stay dormant until the good doctor gets out of town, so they can enjoy a Dartmouth houseparty again. The four boys of Herb and Mil Foster are all teen-agers now with two in college and two on the threshold. The parents are planning on escaping Cleveland's snows for a respite of the sunny beaches of Hawaii this month. Martie and Lee Bassett ran into Bill Bumstead and his bride in New York just before Christmas. Carol and Dave Davenport were enthralled over their fall trip to Paris and Italy, and still find time to relax on their farm when their busy community life permits. It is located near some new ski developments in western Pennsylvania so is a favorite haunt of their two children.
The oldest daughter of Jim and Faith Kuhns has won an ambassador award in her Dayton high school which puts her in a good spot to win the top city-wide award of a person-to-person trip to Japan or France. Their oldest, Peter, and youngest, Taffy, have been lending confidence to the old man who ran for something this past fall. The heading of the news article had been removed before the clipping reached me, so all I know is that Jim was a first-time candidate. It's frustrating not to know whether he was aspiring to the school board, dog catcher, or mayor's office. Please, Jim, let us know the results!
Recently named as a science teacher at the Acton regional high school is LarryBoothby who had headed the science department at Emma Willard for eight years. He recently completed a research assignment at R.P.I, and spent last summer teaching outstanding science students at Exeter.
The object of a running hate campaign, which has spilled over the boundaries of California, is Tom Braden, who was recently reappointed president of California State Board of Education. In an article in Look last October, Tom poignantly described the smear tactics and unfounded onslaughts that have been unleashed by the far-far-rightists in our most populous state who disagree with his new credentials program for California teachers. It seems like a continuing battle between two camps and Tom finds himself the focal point - not an enviable position to be in. but he is learning how to get on with his important work in the face of scorn, bigotry, and hate.
The mail box is empty and the Christmas cards all scanned, so that's it for now. Don't forget to make your plans now for the Princeton game reunion next October. Rooms are at a premium and must go on a first-come-first-served basis and I can't hold the ones I have at the Lake Morey Inn beyond March 1. Contact me if you think there's a chance you and your bride will want to see the Tigers play in Wheelocktown. Keep in touch!
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