1927

Birthday card returns last month brought the latest information on several classmates, although Dick Griffin's carried a somewhat cryptic note: "Fuengirola, Spain (Malaga) 1 yr." Charlie Townsend says he's collecting miniature soldiers, doing less photography than before, but never getting enough reading. He's working at American University (doesn't say doing what) but had a trip to Mexico last October. Ken Murray admits to doing some fishing, some reading, some photography, some traveling, some gardening, some girl watching, some working, all with some politics thrown in. Les Eaton is occupied with photography, gardening, do-it-yourselfing, and girl watching. And an unsigned card from Norwich, which must be from RoyBlanehard, says of golf, "balls' elastic gone": of fishing, "can salmon"; of collecting, "debts"; of politics, "enough, enough, enough"; of travel, "chasing a one year old retriever"; of sailing, "my dream, no water!"; of skiing, "on spiked tires"; of gardening, "given to the deer"; of babysitting, "graduated"; of girl watching, "why not?"; of working, "what's that?"; of elbow-bending, "found better things. What?" But he's been do-it-yourselfing for himself and for a nursery school and has been coaching a 9-0 football team: "I'm now shacking place kicks."

A press release from Greenville, S. C., on October 12 opened with a quotation: "A man's way of making a living can be something so pleasurable that it becomes a hobby as well as work." It then went on, "So stated Charles Arnold Gibson, who retired October 1 as a manufacturing executive for Burlington Industries, Inc., world's largest and most diversified textile producer. Mr. Gibson has served his company and the textile industry well. Burlington Chairman Charles Meyers and other members of senior management paid tribute to him at a Greensboro luncheon recently held in his honor." There was more to the story, and maybe Tom Gillespie will find room for some of it in some coming "Speakeasy."

The Worcester, Mass., Gazette ran, on October 30, another good story on Jock Davis's retirement as President of Agway, Inc., citing particularly his part in creating Agway from a combination of Eastern States Farmers' Exchange, Cooperative GLF Exchange, Inc. of Ithaca, N. Y., and Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, a task which required nearly five years of negotiations.

Gerry Brickett sent on a note saying, "Retired July 1 after 42 years with Congoleum Industries—last four years as superintendent of the Maryland-based paper mill. Miriam and I sailed in August on the "Queen Elizabeth II" and enjoyed a two-week Cook's Tour of England and Scotland. On Sept. 7 we flew to Germany to pick up a VW camper at the factory and start a three-month tour of western Europe which proved well worth waiting 65 years for!"

Bob and Peggy Stevens report that their two and a half months' trip to Europe was fun and that they are leaving right after the New Year for The Country Club of Florida at Delray Beach where they will spend some time before moving on to the Bahamas.

A summary of the log of Rog andMarion Bury's cruising in European waters, accompanied by a very interesting map, yields some pretty impressive information. From Denmark to Sweden and Norway, down to Helgoland, thence via rivers and canals of Netherlands, Belgium, and France to Port St. Louis on the Mediterranean and around to Cannes, they covered 2275 miles, including 222 locks, in 57 days (458 hours) under way. Pictures of Passagemaker, Skipper Rog, and First Mate Marion show them all looking very fit, and it's easy to see why the trip was so successful.

Myles Lane '28, Dartmouth's great halfback who is now in the Football Hall ofFame, shown in his more contemporaryrole of Associate Justice of the New YorkState Supreme Court.

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