1916

Home from California, Gran and RuthFuller started visiting classmates in New England. On March 12, Gran reported, they had a gay dinner party with ParkerHayden at the Harvard Club in Boston. They were at Hampton the next Sunday with Cliff and Peg Bean, and were imminently looking forward to Dick andKay Parkhurst coming up for their annual visit. Preludes to our 55th. Coming?

Parker Hayden shortly wrote that he and Herb Lord alone represented 1916 at the annual Dartmouth Dinner on the 23rd at the Boston Sheraton Hotel. Features were talks by President Kemeny and football coach Jake Crouthamel and songs by the Glee Club. Tablemates included Pen Aborn and Herb Austin of 1914, and from 1915: Dale Barker, Chink Chamberlain, Earl Clough, Kike Richardson, George Simpson, and Duze Lounsberry—whose wife is a sister of our own Blondy Strong. But no hazing. Late in April Parker was in New York for a meeting of the Grenfell Directors, then carried on to Rocky Hill near Princeton for a weekend with Parker Jr and family.

Hugo Gumbart thoughtfully has sent on the itinerary of his and Virginia's colorful 37-day air-cruise of the Orient so you-all can share it vicariously. They leave Cincinnati March 31 for San Francisco from where the escorted party proceeds via Tokyo to see the palaces, museums, gardens, markets, and night life of Seoul; thence (sack for a well-planned fortnight in Japan seeing the highlights and treasures of Tokyo, Nikko, Miyanoshita, Toba, Kyoto, Beppu, and Hiroshima on the beautiful Inland Sea, Kurashiki, and Osaka. Then they go for five days divided between spectacular Hong Kong and old Macao, and on for ten days in Thailand, Singapore, and Penang ere returning via Honolulu and Los Angeles to Cincinnati. Makes your secretary positively homesick.

Barbara Stowell and her sister are flying April 19 for three weeks in London, Cambridge, and the Channel Islands, after which Barbara is returning to London for a final week. Then home to open up friendship for another wonderful summer.

Fletch Andrews chipped in some Welcome news from off the green at Lago Mar Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, where he and Marguerite are taking the sun until early April. He explains that this special relief each winter and summer, from handling Problem cases of Cleveland's Probate Court, is accorded him due to his extreme aBe- He reports the recent birth of their fourth great-grandchild, Fletcher Clarkson White, the first child of their second granddaughter. Their third granddaughter was married in Bermuda in November and Fletch and Marguerite flew there to grace the occasion. "We had a gay time," says Fletch, "almost too gay for 77. But we survived!"

Having letters outstanding to some thirty or forty of you reminds me of two book ads which appeared side-by-side in a New York Sunday Times Book Review back in the good old depression of the '30s. One announced "Business Adrift" by Dean Wallace Donham of the Harvard Business School; the other, "Gone Fishing" by Charles Reitell. That's where we're going till you start to bite.

Lucille and Ed Healey '18 stand beforebust and picture of Ed at N.F.L. Hall ofFame Building in Canton, Ohio. A startackle with the Chicago Bears in the 20's,he was installed in 1964.

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