Last month we acquired from Bob Rahmanop some insight into life in the Canary Islands. He spent two years there alter retiring from Du Pont. The climate is about 78-80 the year around and the Spanish people are happy and contented without our modern conveniences. Things are cheap Cigarettes $1.50 per carton. Whiskey $1.50 per bottle. Housekeeper (10:00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. daily) $15 per month. The drawbacks: the food leaves something to be desired, the doctors are lousy, and there isn t much to do.
Mott Garlock is currently an instructor in management economics in the evening division at Western New England College, emphasizing management practices and executive decisions and the influence of demand, cost, profit, and competition upon executive policy. Carl Sailor, a professor of English at Jersey City State College, is the author of Teachers' Outline on the use of newspapers in the classroom as a regular resource in English, reading, the humanities and the social sciences. We're indebted for this bit of news to Deak Blodgett, who is making a courageous, but "monumentally slow" recovery from a bout with angina.
The marriage of Robin Reeder McLagan, daughter of the late Jack Reeder, to Eli Silberman in New York was announced late last December. The Ford Wheldens have announced the engagement of their daughter, Bonnie Gwynfa, to Ernest Earl Franks of Fort Morgan, Colo. Bonnie is currently a guidance counselor in the public schools of Aurora, Colorado. Plans are being made for an August wedding.
The annual spring dinner of the Greater Boston group of '25ers will be held at the Pillar House (Junction of Rtes 128 and 16), Newton, on Friday, May 9, 1969. Anyone who plans to be in the vicinity at that time will be welcome.
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