1919

No sooner had our notes for May set off for Hanover than Bob and Anne Lewis dropped in for a pleasant evening. They had been wending their way south leisurely. The next day they settled into an apartment in Winter Haven for a couple of weeks. Lou and Harriet Munro, we hear, were down the East Coast of Florida in March—both in fine shape (if you can mention Louis's shape and Harriet's in one breath like that). And from Claire Bresnahan a pleasant Easter card. She announced a right-away trip to North Carolina and plans for summering as usual in Maine.

Spider Martin, home again in Wellesley Hills, writes that he had a fine time in Scottsdale, Ariz. During the month of March the Bob Stechers were there with them, and he talked to Jack Ross who was in the California desert by telephone. Jack and Doris had dinner one night with Fredand Eleanor McCrea in Palm Springs. While in Arizona, Spider went up to Sedona which he reports to be a very beautiful spot, and had dinner with the Tracy Kohls. The Kohls have lived there for eleven years and rank among Sedona's leading citizens. Spider also had a letter from Earl Blaik. He has been wintering in Palm Springs, playing a lot of golf and doing a lot of reading. Spider thinks he plays to about an eight handicap. If we played to an eight handicap, the only reading we'd ever do would be our score cards. Another post card from Cotty andKitty Larmon says (on April 1) that they are steaming into Naples harbor, that the whole venture is thoroughly nice and they are having a wonderful time.

Because we are dusting off the trunks and preparing for the long trip back these notes must be sent a little early and may miss a late tid-bit of news. Largely we are eager to get back into the Hanover area, but just about to leave, we receive one sobering note from the Woodstock Country Club. They state that they expect to have the all-weather tennis courts open about April 15, and that they will shovel out a path from the parking area.

Our wife, Mary, who is otherwise a girl of exemplary character has received 50 cents from Al Jones. We feel sure if classmate Al Jones had offered her 50 cents—no matter what for—she would have declined in gracious horror. But, obviously, sausage-tycoon Al is a gray horse of another color. We were opening the mail hopefully one morning when she remarked, "Oh good! I've got 50 cents from Al Jones." When we asked what for she said it was for trying his sausages—that there was a coupon on the box. We were no little amazed at this for, to our knowledge, she has been trying them ever since 1926, and weaned us off of Deerfoot soon after (and Mrs. Burnett, a neighbor and sometimes tennis partner). As she left the room in frozen silence we turned to our Pet fly, Freddie, who is a great lover of sausage and has no integrity whatsoever, and we asked, "what do you think of that?" "Jones' sausages are the best, I like them very much," he replied. "You write Al and tell him that for five pounds of sausage and five rebate tickets I'll let him use that testimonial. Considering my international following that is a very low price. Those football players would ask him $50,000 and they eat nothing but steaks." "Just what international following do you have?" we asked. "Well, there's Biddle," he replied.

We are sorry to report the death of King Cole's wife Alice on April 21. She had suffered a second and rather massive stroke six days earlier and remained in a coma until the end. Dr. Don Jr. '45 and his wife and daughter flew down to Delray Beach, Fla., from Maine to be with King. The funeral was held in the Episcopal Church in Delray on April 23. Interment will take place in Winchester, Mass.

Send Fred Daley some money for the Alumni Fund, or, if you've sent him some, send him some more. And have a good summer.

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