1928

After considerable prodding, Chuck Bruder finally produced the picture which accompanies these notes, showing the Bruder family around an elephant which son Lee shot on their safari in Southern Kenya. Their campsite was near Tsavo National Park, in the foothills of Hemingway's favorite mountain - Kilimanjaro. Rosalind Bruder graduated from Hollins in 1964 and is now in London taking five courses at the University of London toward her Master's degree. Lee is a freshman at Drew University. Rosalind and Nona shot with cameras and Chuck and Lee got some really fine specimens of elephant, cape buffalo, leopard, lion, antelope, zebra, etc.

A Christmas card from Joe Chay in Taiwan, Republic of China, bears a note: "I am still working for my starch factory. I feel a little monotony but life is pleasant."

Jerry Warner writes from Okinawa, where he has been Civil Administrator for five years, that he and Rella will be moving back to Washington in mid-1967 when mandatory retirement enters the picture. Their daughter Anne gets her Master's degree in music at Stanford in February and Debby is a senior at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Red Sanborn, on sabbatical from Andover Academy, spent seven weeks touring Europe. He and Font hit Munich for the October Feste and Paris for the subway strike and the visit of the King of Nepal. They are now on a leisurely trip across the United States, final destination Hawaii, but with visits to children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews from Maine to California on the way out and visits to ski areas on the way back. Then they will rest until the bank account builds back up before boarding the "Delta Queen" at Cincinnati for the ride down the rivers to New Orleans, thence to Mexico City and the Canal Zone. They will stay on Barro Colorado Island in Lake Gatun. "This is obviously a purely business trip," says Red, "what with observing the habits of howler monkeys and such like that might enrich my contribution to my classes next year."

Every year we read John Meck's and Bob Funkhouser's Financial Report of Dartmouth College with great interest (you can get a copy by writing the Registrar). This year we found several '28 items: The George Pasfield 1928 Memorial was increased by $119O from "sundry donors"; Ralph Rickenbaugh gave the College a Cadillac sedan valued at $7969; and on page 56 we see that Jack Phelan gave $5100 for Hockey Rink Equipment Fund.

Paul and Sonia Ahlers' son, Skip, has been in Vietnam since May and hopes to return to this country next May for the rest of his stint in the Air Force.

This seems to be travel month - Wat andEleanor Dickerman are hoping to get on a Dutch freighter in February or March to Beirut and will spend the spring and early summer island-hopping in the Aegean Sea. As a footnote to the In Memoriam note which appeared in the December issue, Wat writes, "Such a pity about Maurie Cogan. There never lived a sweeter, gentler, more lovable guy. I can still see him and Bud Ranney in their coonskin coats and derbies."

Vic Hartjens' Christmas card includes a color print of Mary and him in Damascus in colorful Arab costumes. Their son, Peter, is doing graduate work in Political Science at the University of North Carolina.

Red Osborn's daughter, Susan, and Warner Bishop '41, president of the Union Financial Corporation in Cleveland, are to be married in February.

Jerry and Mary Johnston were featured in an article in the New York Times of December 8 which told how they became leading Great Dane breeders and active exhibitors. Their current star is No. 6 among the country's most successful show dogs. Jerry is a producer in radio and television, so Mary does the kennel work and supervises the breeding program. Jerry never goes to a show without his fore-and-aft deerstalker cap - it's his bit of superstition.

"We moved back to Connecticut from Michigan in 1943 with one dog," says Jerry. "We bought her because I was away on business a lot and Mary wanted protection. In Connecticut, somebody suggested we breed the bitch and we did. She had a litter of 11, so we had to build a kennel and advertise and go to shows and here we are, up to our ears in Great Danes."

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