1912
Fog, fog, and more fog, but that's a good Maine name (add another "g") so we are right at home in this atmosphere. What a summer! Summer, did you say? From all reports we should have spent it in England.
Speaking of England, our peripatetic CapAllen hit London this year after spending two and one half weeks in Brittany getting acquainted with its people. From London he went to Edinburgh and found a piece of Nova Scotia just outside the walls of Edinburgh Castle. Because in those days transfers of land were made by standing on the land and handing a fist full of earth to the grantee, and because a Scottish nobleman was granted by the Crown a large section of Scotia and wished to transfer part of it to another Scotsman, it was found more convenient for the Scottish Parliament to pass an act making four square feet of the castle yard Nova Scotia rather than having the parties involved go to the locus. Cap says we should all plan to live long enough to learn what happens to France after Le Grand Charles dismounts from his high horse.
Chesty Brown made two stopovers on his way back to Florida from our 55th to take in two school graduations in New Jersey and a wedding in Baltimore. He writes that his son's family couldn't understand how such old fellows could smile, tear around and eat so much as we did at the reunion. Erma and Clyde Cooke celebrated his 77th birthday with a dinner and overnight at the home of the Cushing Academy headmaster and then went on to their summer cottage in Washington, N. H., to celebrate their 47th wedding anniversary with family and friends at the Cooke Compound where they have five family cottages. Eddie Luitwieler is crabbing about his poor legs which suffer in climbing the two flights to his office. Imagine this! The building boasts an elevator but Eddie has claustrophobia and won't use it. We can forgive all that after the wonderful job he did for 1912 on the Alumni Fund drive. Marian and HalBelcher missed the lobster picnic at Shapleigh's as they had just landed in North Chatham, Vt., and felt the long drive would be too much. All of us on hand missed them too.
Our faithful Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Park, keeps the reports coming on Lyme Armes. The latest is that he has been moved to Brookside Nursing Home, Inc., Christian Street, R.F.D. #1, White River Junction, Vt., and that his "condition is slightly better if any." Lyme greatly enjoys cards and letters, so keep them coming. Elizabeth's devotion is far beyond the call of duty for she spends most of every week attending to his every need. Lyme's philosophy has always been, "The Lord will provide."
Alma and Lee White have sold their home in Westport, Conn., where they have lived for 34 years and are heading for Pinehurst, N. C., Lee says, "for keeps." Our sympathy to both in the packing up job. PutRussell writes from Pittsburgh that his traveling and reunioning days are over and adds that at 78 he feels two, maybe three, years older than he did at 77. To watch Earl Cutting cut capers on the dance floor one wonders how some can keep so young. That recalls an omission in the 55th Reunion report where, through an oversight, the Cuttings were not listed in the attendance record. An illustrated clipping from the Barre-Montpelier, Vt., Times-Argus with the caption "Ageless Golfing Trio" has come to hand. It shows Earl Cutting in action on the golf course where he beat his pals with a nine-hole 51. Earl is reputed to be the cutup of the trio. The Cuttings spent the summer in Northfield, Vt., riding around the beautiful country, enjoying the native cuisine, and taking occasional trips to Hanover where they have met up with the Frenches, Lewises, and Grace Burnham.
The Mark Reeds took in the Canadian Rockies and West Coast this summer instead of the usual trek to Europe. Their card from Jasper Park Lodge equals any we've seen from Switzerland. Syd Clark has been cooped in a Boston hotel most of the summer "getting the various books concerned on the tracks and rolling." His last days abroad were quick roundups of Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Stockholm. The first of these was putting on an exciting 800th birthday, a huge affair. Plans for this fall mean Britain, so football games are an uncertainty. Dutch Waterbury is pulling out of Egg Harbor for Sun City, Ariz., 9853 North 110th Avenue, Zip 85351. In Wisconsin, "corn's good - cherries hit 18¢ on trees highest ever. We eat nearly every day & Soc. Sec. comes in regularly. What more can an old man ask?"
Perley Robert's widow, Rachel, sent us word that he died in the Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, Mass., on July 27, 1967. The sympathy for the Class was sent to Rachel. Obituary will appear in the November MAGAZINE.
From the gals: Mae Brooks has moved and is now living with her daughter and family. See Billboard for address. BarbaraHoban says they start for Florida, October 1, after a summer in New Hampshire painting and doing repair jobs with the summer theater for entertainment. Charlie Stratford's widow, Violet, passed away at Bellevue, Pa., in February. After Grace Burnham took in the lobster picnic she wrote that it "seems as though one gets to know the other classmates better each year." And last but by far not the least is Ruth Worton's happy note, saying she knew all her widow friends had as much fun and good time at our 55th as she did.
Bill Shapleigh is now writing the Billboard, so keep him posted. All changes in addresses will henceforth appear in the Newsletter.
Secretary, 15 Gloucester Lane West Hartford, Conn. 06107
Treasurer, 4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass. 20346
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