1919

Just yesterday we were in the super market with our pet fly, Freddie. We were chatting with Mr. Whipple and helping him squeeze the Charmin. We had no concern in the world. Then it occurred to us that it was February 24 and that these notes, dead or alive, had to go out tomorrow. We scurried around through what we laughingly call our files. This produced a Christmas card from the lovely Polly Wilson, Jim's widow. She said she hoped to be in Delray Beach by February 15. This gave us an idea. We would have a Delray Doings issue reporting the activities of the Florida East Coast Mecca to which all 19ers gravitate.

Late in the afternoon, the phone rang. It was George Rand, heaven sent, burbling with news. We are not sure whether it was fortunate or unfortunate that it just happened to be that magic hour and George had been waiting (?) for Marion to return from the Palm Beach Theater. His news was broad and sparkling and clear as crystal, as we, who had not been waiting, made pages of notes. Now in the cold dawn they seem wanting in some respects. None the less they make it clear that many of our classmates showed up, maybe one by one, or maybe all at once.

Starting with the least complex, D. P.(King) Cole and Rock Hayes went to the Dartmouth Club Luncheon in Palm Beach. They reported that a poll showed that out of 20 to 25 people only three favored coeducation. Dick and Edna Werfelman, who have been wintering at Fort Myers on the Gulf Coast, came by to check the Delray activity and to see all their many friends. Dick and Spike Dudensing arrived to see the Rock Hayeses. They had been, among other places, in Sarasota and brought greetings from Champ andAdelaide Clements. President Nichol M.Sandoe and his dandy Dorothy also came by and George says he saw them a couple of times. Combining business with pleasure, Nick hunted out Chet DeMond who spends his winters here and appointed him our new Class Treasurer. Chet accepted the assignment. We are sure that all will agree there couldn't have been a better choice—and what a salesman that Sandoe is!

After that our notes begin to blur up a bit. We can't make out whether it was one party or several parties—whether they were here or there. One way or another, however, the following checked in at some of the festivities and added to the gaiety. Guy and Muriel Cogswell came from their beloved Fort Lauderdale to meet some visiting firemen. Lou and HarrietMunro came to Delray from Boca Raton where they have been soaking up sun. Jockand Edna Murray were vacationing somewhere nearby and were coaxed over to the Rands to a party. Don and WinifredLove joy, Rock and Alice Earl Hayes, V. P.Stu and Jane Russell were mixed up in some (maybe all) of this. Life on the East Coast, as you can see, is a gay one.

And one North Country note: From Kitty Larmon comes a gift of great charm and originality. It is a half milkweed pod which has curled itself into a shape that makes it look for all the world like an 8th century Norse ship. In the prow stand two white mice no more than a half inch long. They have pink eyes and they stare intently ahead like two ancient Vikings keeping an eye out for blondes. Kitty reports that Cotty is fine and improving all the time. Every day (except for blizzards) he walks to the corner and back. She does not say whether he does this bravely like one of the Vikings from which he is descended; or whether, as we half suspect, he leans heavily on Napoleon. Either way, it's good news.

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