1927

Marion and I escaped snow and ice for 10 days to Florida to do some sailing in the Keys. The day we flew home I was wandering around Jordan Marsh in Ft. Lauderdale and on the escalator looked at the back of a head that seemed familiar - yep, it was, none other than Bill Cusack. We had a quick first-to-third-floor conversation. Bill and Betty have a winter place in Deerfield, Fla. Bill has lost considerable weight but says all is on the up and up. Will be back on Cape Cod for the summer.

Now for a little California '27 news. An address change notice from Hanover prompted a note from me to Ralph Miracle as to what a Montana man was doing in Santa Barbara. Ralph writes: "I have officially retired and so we are pretty much permanently vacationing in Santa Barbara. Over the years I have truly appreciated being kept on the '27 mailing list. Wouldn't have missed those Hanover years for anything, but they seemed a long way from Montana and the ranching activities. Maybe I can revive some contacts with any alumni and classmates that have ended up out this way. We have P.O. Box 152 as a sure address and expect before too long, to have our belongings shipped down from Helena and set up somewhere along the beach here." .

Well, I don't know how far Box 152 is from Box 761 (both Santa Barbara) but another '27er, Dick Griffin, can be located now through the latter pigeonhole. Hanover says Dick has moved out from Maine. (Keleher, please note, not everyone moves to Florida.) So I wrote Dick and advised him to check Box 152 and start a '27 Club with Ralph.

Going considerably farther West, as a matter of fact until you reach the East, we get, via Howie Mullin, news of Leon andEthel Loeb from Bangkok as follows: "This is the way to retire - rent your home, visit the new grandchild, the interning doctor son and take off for the sun and the East. Spent 6 weeks in Japan, saw a Dartmouth lad in Taiwan - on to Hong Kong, Vi hour in Saigon, then Cambodia, Singapore, Kuala Lampur, and now here in Bang- kok for a month. Then off to Nepal, India, and Europe. Home for fall reunion." How about that for doing the mysterious East? Phil Fowler note —here is a headliner for your Reunion program.

Nice note from Kay and Dick Stowe who say they have moved to 8493 Maltbie Road, Dayton, so they could get a smaller house with a bigger workshop for Dick. What are you building now, Dick?

More news of transported '27ers. MikeChoukas writes from Greece where, as you know, after retiring from the Dartmouth faculty, he joined the faculty of Pierce College in Athens. They will be back in Rye, says Mike, "to settle and cultivate our garden — as Voltaire would put it. We've taken a few out-of-town trips visiting some of the more celebrated antiquities. A week ago we went to Agamemnon's old haunts at Mycenae and our imaginations really ran riot trying to visualize little Electra and Orestes peering over the Argive plain hoping to catch a glimpse of their returning daddy while Agi's wife and her lover were waiting with an axe somewhere in the shadows. All the reading we had done about the quarrels of that family never had the force that those crumbled stone walls and empty tombs exerted on our emotions." Mike goes on to say that all is not ancient legend, complains about a landlord who maintains an indoor temperature of no higher than 60°.

A handsome picture in the Northampton, Mass., Gazette" of Mel-Pat Partridge accompanies an article on the occasion of his retirement. Pat, after Hanover, was Sports Editor of the "New Rochelle Star" while still carrying his national tennis rating. He joined the brush business in 1931 and was with OX Fibre Brush Co. in Maryland until '65 when they merged with Viatron. Pat has been vice president anch sales manager of their Pro Brush division. The article says the Partridge's plan to remain in their home in Hadley, Mass. So we ought to see them in Hanover more frequently.

Apparently, as many of us are, Don McCall is getting a little closer to retirement. He has relinquished his presidency of International Pulp Sales Co., subsidiary of International Paper, but will remain as vice president of the parent company and advisor to the subsidiary. In the meantime, as maybe I reported, Don and Betty are doing over an old house in Sharon, Conn., for their permanent digs.

Gene Sullivan reports a month and a half trip to Europe recently - "Florida feels wonderful while reading northern low temperatures and people shoveling 8 inches of 'Partly Cloudy' off the walks." OK, Gene, but our oranges didn't freeze!

Nice note from Fred Auer - think I reported his retirement last fall. "Hardly seems that I'll be in my 65th year. Sat next to Charlie and Barbara Bartlett at the enjoyable Cornell game. Left Hopkinton in December, spent holidays with daughter in Middleton, Wise., and on to Arizona." Fred gives an address, c/o Dr. Putnam in Yuma, Ariz. I am checking to find out if this is a visit or he has left the hills of New Hampshire for good.

1970 marks retirement for many '27ers who entered college their 18th year and kept at the old grindstone until legal age to pasture. So (if this is your year) let us know your plans and location.

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