1937

Bless you all who sent Christmas cards and, again, special thanks to those who wrote news or enclosed xerox newsletters. At one time only travelers like the Aylwards, Prescotts or Bryants resorted to this means but we note a growing trend, possibly because it's the easiest way to focus in on the news of our scattering families.

As this is being written we are listening to restful FM stereo music, a gift to us from our two wonderful sons who joined us for Christmas. Tuck Schoolite, Dick, remains in Chicago as a product manager in the canned meat division of Armour-Dial Cop). Ensign Bill continues enthusiastically training to be a Radar Intercept Officer with the Navy Air at Glynco, Ga., hopefully heading for F-4 Phantom jets. Mobility is relatively easy for them as neither is married. While the boys were in college we established an annual Tree Trimming Party wherein our and their friends got together for what amounted to a reunion. This year we had 60. One of the joys is we old folks get to bed at a normal hour to find the tree all decorated next morning - like Santa did it.

To the newsletters. Rachel and FredLaughton write from Bordentown, N.J., that she lost her father last June. Her mother lives on Cape Cod which Rachel describes as "an amazing 84." Fred works at the nuclear power plant in Salem County, N.J., across the river from Wilmington, Del. Rather than commute he has an apartment in Pennsville and comes home weekends. To keep busy Rachel works as a Kelly Girl plus caring for the house. Son Skip is in Vietnam and younger Evan, now six feet four, will graduate from high school hoping to get into a college where he can play hockey.

Lynn and Dana Prescott never stand stillShe says Dana still travels a lot and she goes with him when she can. With the boys at Dartmouth last winter most of their ski trips started and ended in Hanover. In February they went to St. Petersburg on business; in August to the Florida Keys to visit daughter Galyn, a councillor at Camp Seafari in charge of scuba diving. On one trip to inspect an old Spanish wreck their cabin cruiser sank without warning leaving all hands a three-hour swim until the Coast Guard picked them up. They were there at the time of the first moon landing. They left for Europe in December, a week in Germany on business then to ski in Switzerland at Crans Montana. Lynn adds a personal note that they attended the D/Y and D/P games with dinner after the latter at Frank Robins along with Ginny and Rog Allen.

Sherry and Al Bryant enjoyed Christmas this year with Al's family in Weymouth, Mass., arriving for a business meeting in New York thence home to help celebrate his mother's 84th birthday. Their newsletter beautifully describes life and activities in Sao Paulo and we hope Rog can print it all in the Mint Bag. It seems the Bryants were stateside last summer spending a weekend in adjoining rented cottages with Fernand Bill Coe at Lake George over the 4th. Back in Brazil they have added a swimming pool to their home with Sherry marveling at all the precise hand work employed in the building thereof. Al Jr. was honored for all the civic work he's done in Phoenix, Ariz., for the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Tim and Sabine have a big new apartment in Chicago. With all the political problems, crime, and especially the kidnapping of Ambassador Elbrick Sherry indicates life there is really not dangerous but mostly headlines which make it seem so.

Meg and Bob Aylward. Bob is well into his second year with COSERV (National Council for Community Services to International Visitors) in Washington. Between hosting group meetings or programming organizations involved with foreign visitors and traveling about the country on these matters Meg says his days are not long enough and his brief case comes home with him more nights than it should. Daughter Anne graduated from Radcliffe last June and was picked as one of five elected commencement marshals. The prayer she wrote and delivered was picked up by Boston TV, radio, and press. David, a junior at Dartmouth, is being groomed for managing editor of the college paper and spent last spring term in Strasbourg with the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program. The Aylwards found themselves hosting an overwhelming number of young people from Cambridge and Hanover during last November's Mobilization and Peace March whom they described as clean, well dressed, orderly, concerned - and all very likeable hungry youngsters. They append a note regretting their own reunion in Hanover at the Penn game prevented them from joining ours.

Wayne Ballantyne is back. Well, almost. We quote his letter:

"The reason for my change of address is because I have been transferred back to New York but will not report for work until 1 May after two months' vacation and six months' sabbatical which is a new policy for Time Inc. employees with twenty or more years of service. We came up on a Grace Line freighter 'Santa Isabel' with 27 pieces of luggage and our four-pound poodle. Bought a new car and drove to Atlantic Beach, N.C. (c/o General Delivery zip 28512) where Mavis, daughter Alice, and I shall winter. We have a new three bedroom cottage on Bogue Sound (near Morehead City) and near the Atlantic since Bogue Bank is an island 24 miles long by half mile wide, The beach extends the whole length of the island. This will prove to be virtually a trial retirement, in any case an interesting experiment. In the meantime, excuse me while I run off to do some surf casting in the warm Atlantic."

A couple of kudos. Oliver Butterworth, a faculty member of Hartford College since 1948, has been promoted to full professor (English). You will recall he received acclaim as author of two children's books - "The Enormous Egg" and "The Trouble with Jenny's Ear." Bill Cash was elected a director of Bali Company, a manufacturer of women's undergarments. Hanes recently purchased 42% of Bali's common stock. Don Dumont, a partner in the real estate outfit, Dow & Condon, has been elected a vice president of the Western Hartford Board of Realtors and presently chairman of the Board Structure Committee. Finally, perhaps some of you noted in the October 31st issue of Time that Bill Timbers made news as the judge who denied the Justice Department's request for a preliminary injunction to stop the merger of ITT and Hartford Fire Insurance Company.

The College received word of the death of Lyman G. Barton 3rd on September 17, 1969. We very much regret we have no further information and even delayed this notice a month hoping for some response to our letter to his last known address. College records show no marital information and list only as next of kin his father, Dr. Lyman Barton Jr., 132 Court Street, Pittsburgh, N.Y.

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