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Wonder what happened to the Charles River Dartmouth Club which Penn Aborn reported in our class notes of February, 1957 as having a successful meeting at which Coaches Blackman and Praeger showed pictures of football and skiing. Our class was represented by the Aborns, Austins. Griggs, and Lowells.

In these same notes Penn wrote of Win Loveland's having retired from Boston University after teaching there for 28 years.

Noteworthy also is Abe's mention of a letter from John Knoop telling of a recent trip to the Holy Land and of his feeding annually on his farm in Troy, Ohio, some 1000 cattle and 500 hogs. What now, John, 15 years later, is the news of Farms, Inc., and what other distant places have you visited lately?

Talk about voices from the past, yesterday, looking through old papers of my war years at Republic Aviation, I found a note given me by a visiting Thunderbird pilot just back from the Far East. It reads: L. K. Little, Inspector General of Customs, Custom House, Chunking, China, and is dated June 18, 1945. Excited at the prospect of a real story to share with you, I hurried to phone Lay who lives not far in Cornish, N. H. Alas, both Lay and Ruth are in England visiting their daughter but stand by for the real McCoy that I hope to give you in my next issue.

Our thanks for all the Christmas cards and letters received. Word from Win Webber was especially welcome. He wrote from his comfortable quarters with the Nursing Home Unit of the V.A. Hospital in Brockton of having attended the fall Open Tennis Championships in New York and also that he is now planning a second edition of his books on Facts of Life Relating to Health and toIndividual and Corporate Self Employment.

Phil and Puss Smith wrote from West Hartford, Conn., "The golden years don't wear too much of a polish, but they are the only ones we have, so let's enjoy them as best we can." Guv Foss, who lives in his home in Duxbury, Mass., alone since the death of his wife in 1965 is grateful that his daughter and her family live nearby in Duxbury Village. He finds life peaceful after all the years of being on the go to construction sites here and abroad. He wishes he could put his thoughts in verse as does our poet Elmer Robinson. Win Loveland from his Rest Home in Boston sends greetings from the "land of slush and shivers, Christmas lights, and the spirit of the times."

Doc and Fern Kingsford from East Wakefield, N. H., say, "Cheers and hope to see you all in 1974. Lize Wheelock, celebrating his 81st birthday, writes, "Feeling fine. Polly is still the best cook in New England." It is good to hear from Clotilde Palmer who, after some hospital sieges, is back in her lovely home in Larchmont, N. Y.

From the home of our class president in Wellesley Hills comes to all of us greetings from Vogie and Jane Stiles and the hope that we shall all draw closer together as one year closes and another begins. Certainly no one in our class ever did more to help us do just that than did CharlieBatchelder over his long years as class treasurer. Death came to him in Florida on December 5, 1972 following long illness. Even as I write these words the mailman brings a letter from the son of William W. Breslin of Upper Darby, Pa., telling of the death of his father, our Bill, by a heart attack December 9, 1972 in the Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill, Pa.

Secretary, Lake Road, Newport, Vt. 05855

Treasurer, 91 Jericho Road, Weston, Mass. 02193