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Curt and Gladys Tripp enjoy watching seven grandchildren grow up, of whom one is a senior at Lafayette and another in his second year at Harvard.

Doe McBride no longer hurls the fast ball over the plate but keeps in shape with daily hikes. Judge Donald M. Macaulay has retired to Cliff Road, Brier Neck, Gloucester, Mass. 01930 where our Liberty Mutual barrister, Paul Erwin, has an ancestral home. The latter and your scribe chat on the phone and plan to meet at the Penn Game, weather permitting, and trust they will have met with Ray Smith at the Egyptian Room of the University Museum where the Philadelphia Dartmouth Club annually has an after-game gathering.

Rear Admiral Paul Mather and Mary in June enjoyed a reunion of his ship's company of World War II at Plymouth, England, after which a coach tour took them through Wales, Scotland, and England. Frank Fiedler enjoys three days a week rounds of golf with his grandfather foursome where they yell "Fore" to George Morrell '23.

Steve Mahoney, your scribe's best reporter, reports Ted and Helen Hazen enjoyed Indian Summer in Bermuda and that one of their sons left M.I.T. after seven years of teaching biochemistry to go to Texas A. and M.

Chief George Stoddard is on the war path, along with his scout, Ed Felt. Have you mailed to them your plans for the 55th Tribal Reunion when our teepee will be Fayerweather Hall? As you do, give each a big "Wah-Hoo-Wah" for the grand job they are doing. Do you know a 1918 widow? Provide her with company and transportation to our June, 1973 clan gathering as other classes do.

These notes, written at the end of October to appear in December, prompt a reminder that those who have big capital gains can avoid a tax bite by sending to Hanover a gift to the 1973 Alumni Fund and thus inspire Baron von Kapff and his loyal team of class agents to get off to a good start.

Merry Christmas to you all and may each of you be blessed, as are Betty and I with children and grandchildren, all of whom we adore and envy in their elan for life and their contributions to the better life we all desire and thus inspire us to do likewise.

Secretary, 95 North Lansdowne Ave. Lansdowne, Pa. 19050

Treasurer, Old Coach Rd., Norwich, Vt. 05055