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In Portland, Ore., lives our Louie Langdell. Also, in Portland, lives Mrs. William Peterson who is the daughter of our ErnestStudley. When Mrs. Peterson read in the newspaper about Barry Melvin, a Viet Nam veteran, and that his grandfather is Louis Langdell, she put two and two together and decided that since her dad and Louie were in the same class at Dartmouth, she should send the newspaper story east to her dad. Barry lost his right forearm because a hand grenade he was preparing to toss into the woods where some Viet Cong were believed to be hiding exploded prematurely. He was sent to Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco. The story is about Barry's success in overcoming this handicap. This so impressed the Veterans' Administration that a 30-mmute film was made showing how Barry had adjusted to the artificial limb. This was so successful that a 60-minute film has been made to become the means of demonstration and encouragement to many other veterans in similar condition. Ernest Studley thought of other Tenners, and passed the news story along to us.
Rev. Harold Robinson retired after a long period as missionary in China. Then he retired after ten years as assistant pastor of a church in San Mateo, Calif. But he keeps truly active. For some time he has been taking lessons in painting. And every once in a while he is invited back to give a sermon at San Mateo church. On top of these "chores" he conducts a weekly discussion "up at the Carmel Valley Manor where he and Mary live with many other retired persons. He writes that he had a retired college prof bring in for discussion a report on the article, in the June ALUMNI MAGAZINE, on the Orozco Murals.
Our Bequest Chairman, Herb Wolff, has decided that he and Daisy can live more comfortably in an apartment m Bronxville SI address below). Herb says they occupied heir home in White Plains for 43 years. Now that all the offspring are married there k no need for all that room. He said they would be in Nassau in February. He will have a lot of time to figure ways to direct our attention to the Bequest Program which is always on Herb's and Ray Seymour's (vice chairman) minds.
We addressed a letter to Whit Eastman in Minneapolis right after Christmas Reply came from Florida. He and Karen dropped in on Ken and Ora Phelps in St. Pete for New Year's Eve. He expected to see the Clearwater crowd of Tenners letter in January as he was to attend the annual meeting of the Florida Audubon Society in Clear-water Whit is a member of the Advisory Committee. In a forthcoming TENNER TOPICS there will be some information about an important activity of the Audubon Society in the Minneapolis area and m it Whit will play an important role. His "History of the Linseed Oil Industry in the United States" will be off the press April 1.
Op his return card last fall, Eck Hiestand gave us something all of us would do well to consider seriously: "How better can you and I put our full energy," he wrote "our few remaining years, than to do everything possible to get our great country back on the track that made it great?" As we all know, Eck heard a lot of the great society ideas while serving as a member of the House in Washington, for several years. Many Tenners who never even visited Wash- ington have the same valuation for the many devaluing programs.
Burt Miller has been hospitalized once again. "The flu and now pneumonia," he writes, "have me bound down in room 114 in Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge. The weather is lousy - one day mid-July, the next mid-January, won't make up its mind. Best to all Tenners.'' Burt certainly wins the old brown derby with the greatest number of visits to hospitals. He should have had enough to be immune by now. But Burt keeps on smiling through it all.
Another break in our dwindling ranks, comes in the passing of Roge Pierce early in the new. year. He was one of the stalwarts whom we could count on meeting at the annual class dinner before the Harvard game.
Address changes: H. A. Wolff, Hotel Framatan, Bronxville, N.Y. 10708; L.H. Bankart, 1648 Harvard St., Clearwater, Fla. 33515; H.O. Sandberg, Hotel Caribee, Hastings, Barbados, W.I.; R.D. Van Zant, 2635 Second Ave., San Diego, Calif. 92103.
Secretary, 501 Cannon PI. Troy, N.Y. 12183
Treasurer, 2144 McKinley St., Clearwater, F1a.'33515
Bequest Chairman,
