1919

Come Groundhog Day, these notes will be winging their way into Crosby Hall. We search for an item or two of interest and it occurs to us that, unlike the groundhog, the Class does not break its winter hibernation. All are comfortably resting in Florida, Arizona, So. California, and Bahamas or are cruising around the world close to the equator—and never a thought for their secretary whose cupboard is bare.

Exceptions: a postcard from Stu andJane Russell who are in Tryon, (N.C.) which to an old store man sounds like a fitting-room. All the same it looks nice. They plan to come further south later. Polly Wilson, widow of Jim is in Delray Beach, where she and Jim went for many years. A note from Dorothy (first lady of the class) Sandoe reports that Nick has left her in smog-polluted N.Y.C. with snow, slush, freezing rain all over; with no police force, no telephone repairmen, no vegetables and gone to Sunny California. Any successful lawyer, we suppose, would have clients well-placed to avoid the 4° weather at home.

A few items received soon or long ago from Ray Adams, who must by now be soaking up the sun and salt air on the East Coast of Florida: Bill Thompson says he has cut down part of his schedule and goes into New York only on Wednesday and Thursday. Birdie Freedberg, Moe's wife. writes that he is recovering nicely from a go in the hospital this fall, but maybe they won't go to Miami Beach this winter. Leonard Sykes reports, "Aches, pains, cramps, jitters," and then asks Adams, "didn't you head the roll-call in Grover Cleveland Loud's freshman English course?" He must have, and we reported just ahead of Charlie Dearstyne if we were not too distracted by Grover Cleveland's Adam's apple, the most fascinating thing by far we ever experienced in a Dartmouth classroom. Walt Lillienfield says all goes well with him. He likes retirement and has been doing a lot of traveling. The high spot of this was taking his grandson on a safari last summer.

We were pleased to receive a letter from Bill Hoard last week. Bill is, as you know, the publisher of "Hoard's Dairyman," Fort Atkinson, Wis. He encloses a reprint from a recent issue which develops in detail a report of the Framingham Heart Study which found after 20 years of research "no suggestion of any relationship between diet and the subsequent development of coronary heart disease in the study group." He also reports some evidence from elsewhere indicating that unsaturated fats have caused cancer in test animals. His concern is for the dairymen, of course, who have been the victims of millions spent by the vegetable fat producers. His plea is for an in depth study before anyone should be allowed to say the country's diet should be changed. Copies of the article may be had by writing Hoard's Dairyman. We know about the Framingham Heart Study for our wife, Mary, has been a member of it from the start, going whenever called for well over twenty years—first from Framingham, then Weston, Henniker, N.H., and finally from Wilder, Vt.

Kitty Larmon wrote recently. Casually she mentioned that the Larmons were "taking a cheap ferry-boat trip to Europe come March." This we were delighted to hear, but then she went on to say it was much on her mind and she dreamed the other night that they set sail only to discover in mid-ocean that she had forgotten to pack any of Larmon's clothes. Golly, now she has us dreaming. Only last night we saw Kitty, gorgeous in a Kitty creation, enter the festive cocktail lounge. She was on the arm of our ex-Peerless Leader who was draped in a gray canvas obviously just snatched from one of the life-boats as he passed along the deck.

Happy St. Patrick's Day—and may the road always come up to meet you.

Secretary, Box 122. Chandler Rd. Wilder, Vt. 05088

Treasurer, 184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt. 05156