1927

By the time you read this, Rog and Marion Bury will be well started on their exploration of European waterways aboard "Passagemaker," and from some early signs it looks as though there might really be a '27 rendezvous beside some French canal.

Before they left, however, Rog sent on to the temporary editor of this column a couple of notes received too late to make the May issue of the MAGAZINE. One from Bunnyand Dorothy Barde reported that three months after Bunny's retirement they finally got off from Los Angeles in September for London where they spent two months. Then by boat to Bilbao, Spain and on to Madrid for another two months. Then Portugal and Morocco by way of Malaga ("What a place!"); back to Barcelona and, the day after they wrote, to Carcassonne. "We plan to keep on until feet, luggage, or money gives out."

And Al Chabot wrote, "Thanks for picture of Old Pine. Found it on my return from a 3-month cruise of the South Pacific and Orient on the M/S 'Sagafjord.' With 400 passengers on board, congenial company abounded. No Dartmouth men on board, only a widow (Dot Harvey, wife of Murray C. '20) and a sister of Harvey Hood '18. A few other widows livened things up for me so it was a success."

Sam Wormser sent on a letter from BruceMcKennan who retired from Salomon Bros. & Hutzler last fall, an occasion celebrated by a banquet of 150 customers at Trader Vic's. "Strangely enough," Bruce wrote, "as I was leaving, I ran into Dan Libby who will be working a few more years." The McKennans were in Guadalajara, Mexico when Bruce wrote, "following the Sam Martins' trail. Today we join our oldest daughter Peggy Link, husband, and children who are coming from Chihuahua. They take a train to the coast, a distance of 400 miles, probably the last train ride for our grandchildren. From here we rent a car and go to Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, Morelia and Mexico City."

Sam included a note of his own to say that he and Allice had had a great winter of skiing at Bromley, "eight weekends from New Year's through March 8." They ran into Bill (J. P.) Williams one day at Bromley and saw their Dorset, Vt., neighbors Hank and Judy Murray and Bob and PeggyStevens several times. Those four were in Europe when Sam wrote, but the Stevenses were due back in mid-May and the Murrays in early June, so by now perhaps the Dorset population has stabilized again. Sam also noted that Sid and Evy Voice had just returned from a grand vacation in Portugal, Morocco, and Madeira.

Back in the early spring Doc Milliken sent on a clipping from the Evening Sun, Baltimore, about Gus Cummings's election as president of the Board of Trustees of the South Baltimore General Hospital, and also wrote, "Art Lund is teaching my wife's nephew a course in Sturges Rules and 'Boy, is he tough! He runs his class the way a top sergeant runs a platoon!!' My Gladys has attached herself to a blood disorder so now we are having weekly visits to Johns Hopkins for checkups. We are optimistic." We certainly hope that all goes well for Doc and Gladys and that she will soon be herself again.

Just before the April issue of the Speakeasy went to press, a good letter came from Gordon Smith saying that just before he mailed off the new birthday cards to Rog, Hank Murray had called him from the Essex Institute in Salem, Mass., where he was researching material on Nathaniel Hawthorne for one of his educational films. Smithie has again hit the bull's-eye with his birthday card as some of you, of course, are already aware and as others will be as the year wears on. Smithie has just done a mural map for the Essex Institute for which august institution he is a consultant and has made seals, bookplates, coats of arms, and brochures. He enclosed a cartoon he had recently done for the Marblehead Reporter and added, "Our political pots boil and the good old American tradition, believe it or not, still flourishes in Marble-head. We sure take our politics very seriously here."

Apropos Rog's quoting Dud Bonsai to the effect that judges don't retire, they just fall off the bench, Paul Revere O'Connell commented, "Lawyers don't retire, either; they just fall off the bar."

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