1925

Curt and Marian Abel are off to Beirut, Lebanon, for three months where Curt will be on an assignment from the International Executive Service Corps, advising a local marketer of grocery store products. Marian plans to brush up on her French and do volunteer work at the American University Hospital. They will return to Delray Beach via the Greek Islands and Rome.

Another long distance traveling couple are the Mott Garlocks who are taking a trip around Cape Horn this January and February.

And our treasurer Lane Goss departed in mid-December with his grandson David McCaig for five weeks in France, Italy, and Greece via Volkswagen.

When sending out bills for class dues last fall Lane wrote notes on many of them and received many replies with information about the current situation of the writers. He has passed these along to a grateful secretary who will incorporate them into the notes each month as space permits.

Having international travel in mind, there is an international race in prospect this year for Dick Nye. He plans to enter the trans-Atlantic race from Bermuda to Spain which is scheduled to start on June 28. Dick won the last trans-Atlantic race to Spain with the predecessor of his current "Carina" in 1957. The event this year will be called "Race of Discovery" and will end at a fishing port that has an historic tie to the ocean voyages of Christopher Columbus. The town is Bayona on Vigo Bay and it is there that the body of the first American to go to Europe lies. He was an Indian brought back by Columbus aboard the "La Pinta" and the prize that will be at stake will be. the La Pinta Trophy.

Not all interesting travel is international. Nate and Dorrie Bugbee took their vacation last September visiting a number of museums to see the paintings of the old west in which they have a keen interest. They covered considerable mileage starting in Boston and visiting Omaha, Tulsa, Bartlesville, Pohuska (the Osage Indian reservation), Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Santa Fe, and Taos, New Mexico. They have spent half a dozen vacations on similar jaunts following the Old Oregon Trail, the Santa Fe trail and others.

The widow of Lew Goas remarried last July 18 and is now Jeannette Reeves. She writes that she and her husband spend about half the year in Vero Beach and the other half in Narberth, Pa.

Our honorary classmate Jim McFate, manager of the Hanover Inn, suffered a heart attack in Philadelphia in December on the way back from a hotel convention in Mexico City. At the time this is written, reports of recovery are good.

The impressive business card of LynnWhite, president, treasurer, and director of the Bryant and Stratton School in Boston, also tells us that he is president of the Boston Rotary Club for 1970-1971.

At the North Shore Dartmouth Club's stag sport night held in December the only '25ers present were Eddie Pease and JohnTagney. While John is retired he keeps himself busy dabbling in real estate. His son Ron '62 was with him. Feature of the evening was the film covering football highlights of last fall's games and Eddie recommends it highly.

Dick Heydt journeyed from Toledo to Youngstown last fall to speak to the Red Cross chapter there about the Red Cross- United Appeal relationship, according to a Youngstown paper. Dick has served as president of the United Appeal of Toledo and as chairman of the Greater Toledo Area Chapter of the American Red Cross. His regular job is Chairman of the Board and chief executive officer of the First National Bank of Toledo.

Charlie Haywood of Lynn, Mass., was the subject of a recent feature article in the Boston Sunday Post entitled "You Didn't Know, but It's Your Day" in the Post. The author saluted Charlie for his contributions towards writing the history of Lynn and for his accomplishments as chairman of the publication committee of the Lynn Historical Society. He also recounted the high lights of Charlie's career, including his well known trip to Europe on a cattle boat in college days and his military service in World War II. While Charlie is a lawyer by profession, he has been a prolific writer and his books were summarized in the Post article as follows:

"Your first historical novel, 'No Ship May Sail,' was serialized in a Boston newspaper. A very popular work from your pen is 'Yankee Dictionary.' A fellow author, Mary Ellen Chase of Smith College, wrote you that 'all the phrases of my childhood are contained in the "Dictionary." ' Your other books include 'Eastward to the Sea' and 'General Alarm' which deals with firefighting techniques from colonial times."

Secretary, China, Maine 04926

Treasurer, R.F.D. 2, Box 71, Dover, N. H. 03820