1914

To you to whom news comes on the hour and haif hour by radio and TV, give a thought to the genius that would be required to thrill you with news in this column which must be written at least a month earlier in order for you to read it now. Be charitable if some of it has whiskers, and lend a hand by sending more raw material (no offense intended).

Here is real news from Vogie Stiles: To plan for our 60th Reunion in 1974 he has appointed Herb Austin as reunion chairman and Pen Aborn as reunion treasurer. What a combination of talent and experience! Nor is it too early for all of us to plan ahead for joint safaris from wherever we must start for Hanover.

This issue will reach you at just election time. Our class notes of earlier presidential years often recorded the active participation of many of our members in both national and regional politics often rewarded by appointment to important administrative or legal positions. Are you active in politics this year? If so, please tell your secretary in what way.

The happy discovery that Hugh Mackinnon was born the same day as I, although a year apart, led to an exchange of letters that we have both enjoyed. Hugh is still playing the organ in the same four locations he did when he arrived in San Francisco 13 years ago. He writes, "If you have your forests, I have my hills." For daily exercise he walks down his mile hill to the bus, but admits not up again. Deeply interesting was Hugh's recollection of summertime experiences on our Lake Memphremagog and of being in charge of choir boys who for several times camped just across the lake from where we live now.

Acknowledgment is made of an invitation from Saint Peter's Episcopal Church of San Francisco to attend a recital given by Hugh on Sunday, October 15.

A phone call from Lester and BerylBacon in Hanover at the beginning of the football season invited Martha and me to join them for lunch at the Inn but it was raining too hard here to make the 100-mile trip, nor are we likely to make the Princeton game, for I lost out by one day in getting our application under the wire. Were you there?

To Elmer Robinson goes credit for an idea I hope you will all embrace. What one day or one experience of your undergraduate years—amusing or serious—is still vivid in your mind? Start with "I remember ..." and tell it in 100 words.

My own great moment was the burning of my German books in the cemetery behind Middle Mass. when, on getting my marks at the close of my freshman year, I realized I'd never make Phi Beta Kappa.

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