1929

Today is the year's longest being its only 25 hour day of 1972 and the clock hands have been busy making up for it. My secretary will be busy tomorrow synchronizing grandfather clock's hands and voice while time stands still, the full moon looks down on a pendulum see-sawing back and forth inside its glass door.

The highest honor of the American Society of Internal Medicine, that of being named "Internist of the Year," was awarded to Dr. Frank Foster at the society's spring meeting in Atlantic City. Frank, a resident of Hanover since his retirement from the Lahey Clinic of Boston in the fall of 1970, is currently chairman of the American Medical Association Council on Scientific Assembly, a responsibility that has taken him all over the country this year. He is keeping his doctoring going as medical consultant to the Surgical Services at the Veterans Hospital in White River Junction. Among a long roster of medical honors he is past president of the Northeast Medical Association, the New England Rheumatism Association, the Massachusetts Society of Internal Medicine, and the medical staff of the New England Baptist Hospital. Frank and Petey make their home at 12 Conant Road in Hanover and when this appears they will be in Christmas Cove, Maine, enjoying their new boat, "The Eleazar."

George Naylor, since 1939 a partner in the Boston law firm of Tyler and Reynolds, has added still another trusteeship to his collection. He has been elected to the Board of the Union Warren Savings Bank. Active in church and community, George is also a trustee of Framingham Union Hospital and the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum. He is a member of the Boston Real Estate Board and a director of so many corporations that their listing would require another paragraph.

A card from Hank Stein at Palm Beach reports running into John Bryant on the golf course which is good news indicating remarkable recovery after his operation. Hank also spent some time with CharlieGoldsmith. I'm grateful to Hank for his report on the Boston Alumni Dinner which I missed due to my poor date keeping and my wife's dislocated and fractured shoulder. I apologize to John Davis, JohnQuebman, Bill Andres, Bill Mageneau,Bob Sparks, and Ed Cogswell for my absence and loss of their company.

A card from Bob Monahan reports that Frank Foster is back in Hanover recuperating from his operation. The report in April's magazine of E. K. Walsh's Southern Pines address was my error which he has corrected on American Can stationery as "Director Industry Affairs." His Washington address is Suite 214, 1660 L Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20036. He will retire on Jan. 1, 1973 to the Free State of Maryland. Sorry for any trouble caused you, Ed, and I hope Jack Meany sends us a letter from his Southern Pines home.

The retirement commuters' train from office to fireside still runs along. WatSpangler writes from Pittsburg reporting his retirement from Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. after 26 yrs of service in its tax department on January 31, 1972. They expect to relocate in the vicinity of Wilmington, N. C., within the next six months.

Squeek Redding: was honored by the Winchester Selectman on his retirement after 21 years of service on the Town's Finance, Selectmen, and Planning Boards. A scroll was presented to him by the selectmen for his "unique record of service to the Town," a fraction of his service to '29.

Ed Darling a long time officer and trustee of the Unitarian Universalist Association and The Beacon Press, its affiliate, has retired and the following resolution adopted by the Board speaks eloquently of their esteem for him: "Inasmuch as the gentle but insistent hand of time has dictated the retirement of Edward Darling, the Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Association wishes to express its abiding gratitude for his manifold and competent contributions to the richness, candor, humor and beauty of our denomination's life.—Particularly we cherish his ability to come to instant attention at the sound of a particularly apt or inept word, his hearty and honest laughter, his verbal and written eloquence and particularly his large heart which has held us in his affection through hard times and happy and which has insured him a continuing place in the pantheon of living saints of our faith—a saint being defined as one who lets the light shine through.—May the years ahead allow the tide to bring to his shore many more treasures from the sea, and the press of the world bring forth a book or two worthy of his perusal at leisure."

A letter from Dan Luten on U. of Cal., Berkeley, Dept. of Geography Earth Sciences Building stationery was accompanied by San Francisco Chronicle page write up on Dan's Campaign on growth as progress, entitled "Growth and The Ailing Environment." The letter which follows was also accompanied by Dan's article "The Economic Geography of Energy" in the Scientific American which I am sending along to Harry Baehr for the "29 Up" along with Gilliam's page. Dan Luten's letter:

Dear Mort—Here's some grist for your mill. Grind it fine! It's already cut down to half size, which may well become it. Geography continues to have its controversial sial corners and I am viewed dimly by some. But we do get our moments. Enclosed also is the item that Hal Gilliam used as partial basis for the writeup. ABAG is Association of Bay Area Governments and "Progress Against Growth" (and it was I who first said that I "coin better phrases than sense") was, of course, intended to be incitatory. A calmer piece is included, for balance.—Regrettably, I remain, no Scholar. Best wishes, but persevere."

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