1919

Way back last May, immediately on our arrival home in Wilder, we learned that Dick Dudensing had suffered a heart disturbance while in Hanover; that, just out of the hospital, he was staying at the Inn. We phoned, hoping to see him but circumstances of some complexity prevented this. Later we had a chipper note from Dick reporting further recovery, and his complete enthusiasm for the treatment and loving care he had received at MHMH from doctors, nurses and all staffers. Another letter, later on, to SpiderMartin reported further improvement. Soon after we had dinner at the Inn with Kitty Larmon and Dorothy and Nick Sandoe. Kitty brought everyone up to date on doings on the Hanover Plain and the Sandoes glowed with their anticipation of a trip which was to include Moscow and assorted parts of Scandinavia.

It was maybe mid-July when Spider Martin wrote that he as chairman of our 55th Reunion Committee was calling a meeting of some guys with Dave Orr of the Secretary's Office. It turned out to be Martin, McCrillis and Sandoe (the thinkers) and Jigger Merrill, Max Norton, and Davis (the doers). Decisions were made by the thinkers and the work delegated to the doers and we adjourned. All this was pretty hum-drum to us old doers, but how the side effects of the affair electrified our sultry summer life patterns. Suddenly there were golf matches, cocktail parties, lunches, dinners, and trips. We can't be sure how much of this had anything to do with the purpose of the meeting but it was exciting and fun. The doings ended with some lunch and good company on the bosomy porch of the McCrillis summer home which looks down on and out over Lake Sunapee. As we left there and headed north we relaxed for the first time in days, and we thought how peaceful it would be tomorrow just sitting on our lawnmower cutting grass. One doer wasn't at the meeting - Batch. On the letterhead of The Salisbury Chapter of The American Red Cross he wrote Spider, "After nine years I am retiring as our local Red Cross Chairman in August of this year. A bloodmobile is scheduled for Friday, July 27th and I should be there from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m." If Batch can give that much blood we have been underestimating him all these years and we apologize.

The enterprising Kitty Larmon took to the road again in early August. She made a stop or two in New York State and eventually arrived at Chetand Emily Gale's summer home on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie. She had a lovely time and says, naively we thought, that Gale's golf is not as good as he thinks it should be. From the even more enterprising Dorothy and Nick Sandoe we receive a postcard telling us that they got out of Russia and are now in Finland which is very different and thoroughly delightful. And our communication lines are so poor that only now, in late August, have we learned that Bunny and MadCollins have not been at their Ragged Mountain retreat this summer. Bunny hasn't been feeling too well and they stayed in Florida at their Sarasota home. Get better. Bun.

Finally a postcard from Budd and LeonoraWelsh who, working their way home from The Yukon Territory. Jasper, Banff, etc., came across a fly in their room at Thousand Islands. They swatted him with a bath towel not recognizing him as Freddie, our pet fly. Budd said. "Fortunately he rolled with the blow and after a few expletives flew out the door. When he arrives home he will be in need of a good rest." Three weeks later we wrote to Budd saying that he had not arrived yet and we suspected that, because the weather was so nice, he had decided to walk. He's crazy!

A bronze plaque in Leverone Field House was dedicated this spring to the memory of Earl"Tommy" Thomson '20. Among those attending the ceremony were (l to r) Ex-GovernorSherman Adams; Anne Thomson, Tommy's widow; Secretary Bill Carter; Class PresidentCharles F. McGoughran; and Athletic Director Seaver Peters '54.

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