1905

Wilbur Bull '09 with his new wife Eunice and two friends has been in Sarasota for a few days and we had many happy meetings with them. March 3 we had dinner at Pete Reynard's Restaurant at Holmes Beach, Fla., and then came to our place on Anna Maria for an evening of talk, mostly about Dartmouth, its past, present, and future, and its many problems. Sunday, March 5, we all went to Longboat Island Chapel. Many of our boys and girls have known the Bulls throughout the last 15 years.

Birthdays coming up: April 9, FredChase; May 21, John Bell; June 15, TootsBalph (he will be 90 years old).

John and Lucy Bell are still improving slowly in the same hospital and hope in the spring to be together in New Hampshire.

A letter February 10 from HerfordElliott noted that many of us belong to the Golden Age Club and that he is only one month younger than I am. He has a few comments about his wife's youthful activities, saying that she plays tennis two or three times a week and goes bird watching, but makes up for this by being the family chauffeur as well as an excellent cook. They are now basking in the sun at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands.

May Hayes, the very loyal daughter of our Percy Ladd, sent a Christmas card with a short note. "Are you pleased about the decision of the Dartmouth Trustees to admit women? I am sure my father would be, since he used to talk about the possibility of his granddaughter going there. After all, when the older one was only two, she could sing part of the Dartmouth song, as you may remember his mentioning."

Along this line, Ed Tuck '50, one of John's sons, has four girls and only one boy who does not seem inclined to go to Dartmouth, so perhaps one of the girls will carry on the family tradition and enter Dartmouth.

A recent note from the Keadys of Melrose tells that one of their four daughters is married and the others are completing their educations. Mrs. Walter Keady's son is doing better as a stock broker now that the market is going up.

National Parks Centennial: Before you read this, you will have received my Yellowstone Park first day of issue stamps. There will be four more, and I plan to send them to all of you. These stamps are receiving national coverage in the papers and on TV. The March 1 "Today" morning show had four men who told about all the new stamps. Life Magazine also had a double page spread telling about the stamp.

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