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I believe a month ago I wrote that I was all prepared for a long snow-in; well, I still am but it now looks as if winter is planning to avoid the New York area. Even the North Country is suffering a snow drought. I hear the Skiway enjoyed one great weekend in early December only to be closed a week later. Most people I know are sporting smiles on their faces, but the skiing enthusiasts have little to rejoice about except to hope that our current new year will bring white happiness.

Shortly before Christmas I had occasion to express my congrats in person to our new Supervisor in San Francisco. Having appropriated Quent Kopp's office durhing his morning absence, I was making a few phone calls when the "Q" walked in. After explaining I had flown West unannounced to have lunch with him I was rejected with the announcement that he was previously engaged—as a contestant in the annual Chinese chopstick eating contest at The Imperial Palace! Undaunted I accompanied him there to witness our good Supervisor go down to defeat ingloriously—I suspect Quent was watching Miss California more than the egg roll. Thereafter, a fantastic Chinese meal and cocktails on the house! One never knows what may happen when he ventures west to the city "high on a hill!"

Another of our noisy politicos has made the news again. Commissioner Charles J. Urstadt, who is already well-hated by all occupants in erstwhile rent-controlled apartments in Gotham, is now vying to be a national hate symbol. He has been appointed by President Nixon to be a "Public" member on the Rent Advisory Board which will provide advice to The Price Commission on rent stabilization. Good luck in the big bureaucracy, Charlie!

Wings of man brings news of our own wing flyer—Howard W. "Pete" Wing of 19 Brookline Street, Nashua, N. H., who has now zeroed in on the coveted Chartered Life Underwriter Award which was delivered to him at the National Conferment Exercises of The American College of Life Underwriters in Chicago on September 24, 1971. Pete, who is associated with the Nashua Agency of The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, is also a life member and a qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table. Wife Mary Jane (who is a better correspondent her star-studded flyer advises that daughter Deborah is currently studying in London as part of her junior program at Windham College, Putney, Vt. Next daughter Melissa is a freshman at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt. Heather at 13 is still at the bosom, being an eighth-grader at Nashua Junior High School (I assume she will follow family tradition and stay in the North Country for her higher education). Apparently Pete has been a lucky one—experiencing a little health reversal three years ago that warned him to get back to his relaxed nature and good humor. A dime's worth a dollar thai we'll see the Wings of '49 at Qur 25th!

An ex-Pick-Ax Award winner has beer, keeping up with his talents. After being commissioned in the past to paint the murals at the Hotel Coolidge in Whitetown and the portrait of Sid Hayward (now hanging in the Hanover Inn) Peter "MiKe Gish has recently completed a portrait of Miss Bernice A. Ray which presently graces the lobby of the new Hanover school named after her. Mike, in addition to homework, is currently a member of the Rye Art Center staff in Rye, N. Y., and the teaching staff at Fairfield University in Connecticut.

A note from Bob "Ziz" Zeiser a few months ago brings a clipping anent broKen armed Seward "Buck" Weber. back in his true environment—Executive Director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council and is currently residing at R.F.D. 2, Plainfield, Vt.

Another reporter on my staff (and I could use more), Tom Swarz, also graced me with a clipping from the Watertown, N.Y. Daily Times. This one advises us that Bob Horr of Sackets Harbor, N. Y. has been elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Jefferson County Savings Bank the first in its history. Prior to his association with the bank, Bob was Treasurere of the Agricultural Insurance Company in Watertown until 1962. Obviously our most recently appointed chairment has spare time—he sits as trustee of several non-profit organizations in the educational rehabilitation field—and he has three sons by wife Dorothy, namely Robert C. Horr Ill, William Porter Horr and John Winslow Horr.

Nytol' Keep tuned to this station for future news on the soon to be commenced exploration for the whereabouts of Gunther Perdue. Latest reports say he's gone South. A good '72 to you!

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