1923
I received my copy of Issue #3 of the Golden Review in late September. Included, as you already know, with the 35 reports on classmates are four on classmates' widows. I think these gracious ladies add much to the Review and I hope we can induce more of them to permit us to include them in the 1923 family history. I am currently corresponding with Beth Brown (Roy's widow). Beth has sold her home in Sharon and bought another in Southbridge, Conn. I have also heard from Irene Wilner (Ellis' widow) who is still at Peter Cooper Village and recently returned from a tour of East Africa. And from Bettye Sollitt (Sumner's widow), who spends as much time as possible at her farm in South Haven, Mich.—"where we used to have those wonderful reunions." More about all three in issue #4.
Ruel Smith and Bob McMillan now have a much reduced backlog of Review questionnaires. They need at least 100 more completed ones. Send yours in—with pictures, please!
Chet Bixby forwards a good letter from AUb Miller enclosing a picture of Aub's retirement home in Tavares Fla. Aub retired last June from his teaching job at Fairview High School, Dayton, Ohio. He and Kay bought their new home in August-complete with a canal in the back yard, electric heating, and a "Florida" room Aub reports that some of Kay's pictures are on display in the local banks and restaurants.
A recent Wall Street Journal article describes the merger of Skaggs Pay Less Drug Stores with Pay Less Drug Stores, Northwest, Inc., to form the nation's fifth largest retail drug store chain. In the new setup Peyt Hawes becomes Vice-Chairman.
Last May Jack Myers wrote Bob McMillan: "We have planned an additional trip. We return from Europe at the end of June and now it seems we will fly to Las Vegas for most of July and then on to California. It's going to be a long summer. People certainly go wild in their old age. However I have always enjoyed Las Vegas—not because of the loss of dough but the shows are fabulous." Jack goes on to straighten out Bob as to who founded Chas. R. Myers and Co., Inc. Jack and his brother Charles started it together.
By this time you have read the Golden Review report on Manny Rubin so you are familiar with most of his life's work. About the time the Review came out I received a detailed summary of the general activities and purposes of the International Executive Service Corps, under whose auspices Manny spent several months in Guatemala in the summer of 1970 and spring of 1971. Manny's project assignment was advising a large shoe manufacturer on increasing production. IESC, organized in 1964 by a group of American businessmen, helps speed economic growth and private enterprise in developing companies.
Clarence Goss' final summary of the 1971 Alumni Fund was outstanding. I'm sure you all have read it. Clarence wants to correct Jim Broe's reported Percent of Quota. It should have read 97% +- not 88.3%.
During the summer months Clarence has acted as a focal point for classmates comments re coeducation, ROTC, the decline of fraternity life, the Levy valedictory and like concerns of our generation. He has summarized all of your remarks and sent them along to Charlie Zimmerman for his information. Be assured your comments and questions are in the hands of the Board of Trustees and are being given thoughtful consideration.
Last October, Chet Bixby donated some about-to-be-frost-bitten geranium plants to Herb Horn and myself. Chet and Ike Miller assured us they could be induced to grow to enormous heights if properly nursed along. Both Herb and I wish to report that our plants spent a very lackadaisical indoor winter. Outdoors this summer however they reached fulfillment— six feet tall and blossoms all over the place.
Ted and Olive Caswell are enjoying the after-Labor Day quiet of Cape Cod. During the summer they had a beautiful sunny day cruise with Win and Marion Temple on Win's yacht. Ruth Billings joined them but Roger had a Boston meeting and couldn't make it. Ted says Paul and Marjorie Morgan have opened a real estate office in Osterville and are "off and running." Ted's letter ends on a sad note with the news that Jack Booth was operated on during the previous week at the Cape Cod Hospital for what proved to be a malignant brain tumor. Later news informed us Jack died October 3. Our sympathies and condolences go to his family.
Sometimes, as the problems of grass cutting and snow removal catch up with us here in New Hampshire and we begin to count the passing years we wonder if we shouldn't chuck it all and get into an apartment or some kind of condominium. When we get this way I reflect on RuelSmith's recent comment: "Don't rush into that condominium. I feel that way too frequently myself but I think it's better to let things go to pieces here and there and preserve the joys of a private lane."
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