1900

This is an addendum to the account of Bob Jackson's initiation into the tribal mysteries of the Seminole Indians reported in the June issue of the MAGAZINE. Besides an onomatopoeic - just to prove that the writer was once a student of Greek - tribal name, Bob, as is customary in Indian rites, received as a present a live rattlesnake. Fortunately for Bob, and presumably for all attending the ceremonies, Mr. Snake was in a wooden box with a glass cover. But who would want a rattlesnake alive or dead? Bob certainly did not, and so as a generous gesture he gave Mr. Snake to a Florida zoo. For some reason, completely mystifying to Bob, the zoo was pleased to have it.

A clipping from the Montreal Gazette of July 8, 1966, under the caption "Social News," reports the opening of the 1966 season at the North Hatley Playhouse. The clipping had a large picture of Arthur andJeannette Virgin who have had a long and continuing interest in summer theater. They were instrumental in revitalizing the North Hatley project. They generously gave to the Playhouse Corporation the land and building, helped in remodeling the building, and at all times stand ready to promote the usefulness of the theater in that area. In a letter to me Arthur says that "The Piggery" is doing well this summer. The plays are well patronized as the people of the North Hatley region enjoy the offerings. The season opened with a play in English which was followed by the same play in French.

Cut Tirrell, who sent me the clipping about the Virgins, says of himself and his family that all is well. His granddaughter, Susan, who was present at our class reunion last year, is taking a summer school course in geography, her field of major interest, to help her become more proficient in that subject to secondary school students. Cut reports that he plays around with his stamp collection, bangs on the piano —if that is the proper word for his efforts, and it certainly is if he plays Stravinsky or many of the modern musical compositions - and spends considerable time watching athletic events on TV. He says things are humming around Montreal. Canada is preparing for the 1967 International World's Fair which includes some countries. New streets are being laid out and many new buildings are being constructed. Other activities which are bound up with such a significant enterprise are being initiated. It would seem that Montreal is all agog in anticipation and the excitement of World's Fair events.

Elizabeth Gaffney, daughter of GeorgeTong, reports the marriage of her son, Edward, a graduate student in geology at Dartmouth, to Miss Margaret G. Wallace on June 25 at West Haven, Conn. During the summer Edward has been working at CREEL in Hanover, and his wife, who is majoring in library science, was on the staff of Baker Library. Son George '63, arrived in New York from Poland where he had been spending the past year on a Reynolds scholarship, just in time for the wedding. Elizabeth, who was on a trip of several weeks during the spring, enjoyed a leisurely journey by freighter from San Francisco through the Panama Canal and up the East coast. She also arrived in New York just before the wedding. She remarked that the care-free life aboard the freighter and the relatively slow way of getting to places exactly fitted her mood of the moment. Following the wedding she and her husband, Bill, spent several days trout fishing in the Connecticut Lakes region. No report on the catch.

As of August 27 the condition of ArthurWallace according to his doctors is slightly improved. Last June he was transferred from the Nashua Memorial Hospital to the Veterans Hospital in Manchester, N. H., and as a matter of precaution he was placed on the critical list. His daughter writes me that he has been removed from the critical list, that he seems cheerful, and that he recognizes the few members of the family who are allowed to visit him. Arthur has had a long, tough experience, and for such an active man his great deprivation is that he cannot talk or walk. We can only hope that these physical limitations will in time be overcome.

Secretary and Treasurer Box 714, Hanover, N. H.

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