1961

I am sitting by the fire defying frost and storm, ha ha. I am coldernhell! I don't think that defying jazz works very well except in songs. Another thing: don't try pledging any fellowship whilst your cup is at the lip... you will wind up with mead all over your tunic no?...how 'bout beer on your bib? ...maybe Kool-Aid on your dickey?... Nesbitts in your navel?...anyhow practice taking the cup away from your lip (by the way, howcome only one lip?) and then pledge your fellowship all you please.

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Hey, let's everybody sit up and take notice Ron Huse and Viola Anna Sadlier are all married up, since May. Ron audits books and catches crooks for Haskins and Sells in NYC.

Martha Catherine Schauss isn't her name anymore; it's Mrs. Peter David Stone. Pete is finishing up on his degree in architecture at Harvard.

Skip Barnett just received his doctorate in philosophy from Ohio State last September. Peter Robinson is engaged to Miss Julia Williams (if he hasn't gone and married her already). &%s#*# clippings are always so darn late! Pete, single or shackled, it teaching French at the University of Minnesota. Whitey Dunphy is a Captain in the Marine Corps and is a helicopter pilot in Vietnam; correction, he has just returned from ten months' duty there. In a press interview, Whitey reported having been shot down three times and having carried everything from wounded men to battle orders in his 'copter.

Speaking of Vietnam, John Beckert, a Captain in the Army, is currently near Da-Nang as an Intelligence Advisor. John's wife Jean and young son Christopher are living in California in the meantime.

John Willis has been discovered! He and his wife, Jeannie have been hiding out in Wilmington, Mass., cuz John is working for an engineering firm in Boston. Not only that, but the ambitious young chap is getting his master's in night school.

And now for a feature story on one of the really big newsmakers from the ranks of '61, none other than - Bill Bull. Bill, after years of success avoiding the rigors of army life, is now caught firmly in its clutches in New Mexico at the White Sands Missile Range. Bill plays golf, swims, gets hot, swims and chases his wife around the desert. His life sounded so ideal I pasted 47¢ worth of postage stamps to my forehead so's I could mail myself out there for a little of that life. This ploy did not fool the sharp-eyed post office inspectors, so Bull will have to suffer alone.

Last important news item - Don Highlands, a fellow pillar of Cincinnati society, has passed his bar examinations and will shortly be doing whatever you can do after you pass your bar examinations.

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