1925

Outstanding 1925 event of the past summer was a luncheon party given by Connie and Lane Goss on June 24 at their lovely old home, Powder Major's in Madbury, N. H. The historic house and beautiful grounds surrounding it were an ideal place to see old friends and enjoy a lot of conversation as well as the excellent meal provided by the host and hostess.

The following 28 classmates and wives from the north country were present: Dutch and Gladys Clark, Drue and John Garrod, Ed and Rosanne Griffin, Bill and Billie Jenkins, Bob and Molly MacCready, Don Matthews, Jack Norris, Eva and Porter Roberts, Esther and Lang Spring, Velma and Rod Tanzer, Jim and Alice Winn, Dot and Larry Leavitt, Anita and Bob Bingham, Dorothy and Doug Archibald, and Connie and Lane Goss.

If this magazine reaches you by October 10 you still have time to get to Hanover for our fall Princeton game gathering October 13 and 14. There will be a class dinner Friday at 6 in Alumni Hall at Hopkins Center and a class luncheon Saturday at noon in the Tavern Room of the Hanover Inn. The class meeting will be held Saturday morning in 102 Reed Hall.

Carl and Roberta Bridenbaugh have written a book "No Peace Beyond the Line" Published in the spring and reviewed in The New York Times of May 21. It deals with the English in the Caribbean in the 17th century and is dedicated to Panchitaand Nort Canfield. Carl and Roberta live in Providence and Carl is enjoying working steadily on his books since his retirement three years ago. They are off on a trip to Europe this fall starting with a week in Vienna, touring through Germany, Switzerland and France and winding up with a week in London.

The Canfields who have been living in the Virgin Islands at St. Croix, are reported to be moving to the neighborhood of Cuernavaca, Mexico.

June Bryant is another '25er with a book published this year. "Adventures in Spanish Archaeology" was reviewed in the June issue of this magazine and tells the story of how Spanish authorities were persuaded to explore and study the amphitheatre site of Tarragona. June is also chairman of the executive committee of The Friends of the Dartmouth Library.

Don and Anne Moore drove from their Venice, Florida home to Cape Kennedy last spring to watch their first space lift, Apollo 16, from the press section. He wrote a story for Today and other Gannett newspapers comparing Apollo's immensity with the space rockets he foretold in Flash Gordon comics between 1934 and 1954.

Curt and Marian Abel departed in September for Colombia for two months on his second overseas assignment with the International Executive Service Corps. Curt will be a consultant and seminar director on the launching of new products and test marketing, and he and Marian will spend one month in Bogota and another month in Cali. They have been in their Vermont home for the summer after winter in Delray Beach marred for Curt by a broken ankle which spoiled two months. He wrote, "At the end of a '25 dinner party which the George Zahms gave for the HortonConrads, Win Prescott, Dutch Schroedls and ourselves on March 10 George handed me a big bag of "surplus" citrus for our house. As I took it to our car I slipped on the Zahms' driveway — and that was it — and no more fun than when I broke my leg trying to ski Mt. Pico years ago."

Another informal '25 gathering, this one in the summer time, took place at the Sunapee, N. H. abode of Dot and LarryLeavitt. Present were Adeline and LouKimball, Bill and Billie Jenkins, Bobbyand Whitey White, Velma and Rad"Tanzer, Gertie and Ford Whelden, and Freddy Webster.

Bob Pike has been in the news at least a couple of times in the last few months. He was the principal speaker at the annual conference of the New Jersey Society of Professional Engineers in Atlantic City in the spring, and at the C. Ross McKenney Memorial Woodsmen's Weekend in Hanover he gave a film presentation and talk on the last log drive on a New England river.

Bob Weinig is one of five new directors elected this year to the Conservancy Board in Naples, Fla., where he makes his home.

Ed and Frances Burns enjoyed one of the better trips around the world earlier this year. They were in a party of 30 which had a 707 TWA jet with the same crew on a 33,000 mile jaunt from New York to Morocco, Greece, Ethiopia, Nairobi, Iran, India, Malaysian Peninsula, Manila, Hong Kong, Japan and back to the U. S. He says he has lots of pictures and lots of stories.

Since the last publishing of these notes we have received word of the death of three classmates and friends — Jim Walls,Fred Weston and George Winger. To their families we all extend our sincere sympathy and, like their families, we will miss them.

Secretary, China, Maine 04926

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