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Y'know, Valentine candy is really losing some of its old imagination. Time was when you could get cholocate covered anything- that-grows-in-field-or-forest. Nowadays about the only "flavor" is cholocate covered candied orange peel. Now I don't want to antagonize the Florida Citrus Industry, but Chocolate Covered Candied Orange Peel is a lousy idea. First of all, one piece is enough to give you a severe diabetes attack. Secondly, biting into what appears to be a nice soft piece of chocolate and discovering that stiff, sticky orange peel is a nasty shock. And, more's the pity, chocolate covered yak foot, candied rose thorn, stuffed road apple and others are even worse. Yessir, the good old days of mocha creme, caramel, and coconut are gone; lost in a swirl of modern but tasteless thinking ... candywise.
Candy or not, Tony Wight, former star swatter for the Gamma Delt Softball Team, has hung up his club having succeeded in taking himself a lissome mate, one Miss Catherine McHugh of Bayside, Long Island. Tony and Catherine tied it up on December 3. The clipping mentioned that Tony worked for an advertising agency, but didn't say which one. Maybe T. W. will write and give us all the real lowdown on his scene.
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MICHAEL E. NORMAN COMPANY. The Company president, M. E. Norman himself reports health to be excellent, work (pediatrics) to be progressing handsomely at Philly Children's Hospital, vice-president Linda, burdened with management of the home office, reports that future prospects are groovy what with the imminent transfer of the Normans to London. That will be the second Norman Invasion of England (sorry, couldn't resist that one).
Ted Jzyk and Miss Sandra Jane Hunter of Westwood, Mass., are engaged. The newspaper didn't give a wedding date, but since the engagement was announced in November and since Ted was never one to mess around, they are probably honeymooning someplace exotic right this very second.
Speaking of romantic lives, here's a dilly. Dave and Betsy Loughran, after a '6l wedding headed for Rota, Spain (near Gibraltar) for a three-year Navy stint. Dave got so good at communicating with the natives that he decided to go into Spanish as a vocation. Sooooo, after bringing young Peggy Loughran into the world, they moved to Baltimore where Dave will get his Ph.D. in Spanish in June. After that the Latin Loughrans will zip up to Hanover so that Dave can teach Spanish to unwilling Green Freshmen. In true Chubber fashion they built a summer home in the boonies near Tamworth, N. H. Sounds like everything is Mui Bien.
Big Broker Terry O'Neil has seen fit to take an option on one share of a son, Timothy Andrew. Corporate cooperation was undoubtedly offered by mother Connie. Outside of the fact that young Tim will probably tell risque stories with the same facility as his father nothing more is known about this latest franchise.
And now in a rousing display of literary pyrotechnics, we will close out February with a bit of WHO'S WHERE — BarryPrather (famous for climbing Everest a while back) is an engineer with Potter Aeronautical in Ellensburg, Wash. Bill Harris, works at the Brookhaven National Lab in Long Island as a Research Associate. CleveCarney assists the sales manager at Boise Cascade in Hillside, Ill. Do you know what Jim Mairs' middle name is ... ? Ready for this, Leon, ha ... Leon ... hi Leon, Leon Mairs, ho ho. Anyway J. Leon Mairs is an editor with W. W. Norton & Co. Publishing of N. Y. Tom Mealey is a Navy lieutenant teaching at the Fleet Sonar School in Key West. Glenn Gemelli is an Air Force pilot Instructor out of Williams A.F.B. in the Arizona sands someplace. Hey Glenn, are the Renegades dead? Neil Karlin is in Alameda, Calif., doing a little something with military medicine. Dave Milne teaches General Sciences at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Finally Bob Kellogg is a captain in the Army Medical Corps in Fort Bliss, Texas. Keep your cool, don't blow your ... mind.
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