1927

Gus Cummings kindly sent on some bits of news he had received from dues-paying classmates who agreed unanimously on only one thing: that Gus is doing a great job in what must be a most onerous operation, dues-collecting. Here are a few items from that news.

Clark Edmonds says, "Am retired and planning Florida again, trying to make up our minds where to go and settle down, or stay here." Jack andNancy Andrews were back in Springfield, Mass., after a summer in Vermont, but left in January for skiing in Colorado. They'll be back East in April and are looking forward to the 45th in June. Last summer Ted and Dorothy Selig toured Scandinavia and Russia and reported that the "hot, dry weather of northern Europe was great for viewing the midnight sun but tough on reindeer grazing lands and on farm crops." After being forced to return from Arizona for a gall bladder removal last winter; two floods in ten months, the second thanks to Hurricane Agnes; and now the most recent trip, Ted was moved to say, "I can't remember that life was nearly so exciting before I retired."

AL Mac Donald wrote, "I am still enjoying retirement and must say more and more seem to be heading for Fla. However, now that I am here, I say, 'Yankee stay home.' The building down here is terrific. Think I read recently that 26% of all home building is in Fla. We used to live in St. Pete but it got too crowded.... And they are still building."

Bob Bliss reported an overnight visit from Kroggie and Gertrude Krogstad, returning to Tyler, Texas, from visiting his mother in Winona, Minn. Bob and Carolyn went to Munich in June for the International Press Institute—"an eye-opener, direct contact with publishers banned by dictators who closed their newspapers in Greece, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, and Spain.' They have two conflicts but still hope to make Reunion in June.

Gil Gilbert wrote, "Not much new to report except that Florida has been taken over by Disneyworld!" Al Lawson put in a plug for the annual Alumni College: "Jean and I had our more than usual fun time last August and the only other '27 there was Gerald Brickett who resigned after his first year and went to M.I.T. Why not have a reunion at Alumni College ... ?" Jordan Pulver says he has moved twice since retirement in 1967 but now spends most of the year in Pine Plains, N. Y„ and the rest in Cliffside Park, N. J. "We rather plan to pull out of the city and stay the whole year in the country, but so far have been deterred by the thought of leaving our friends here and going through the ordeal of yet another move!"

Bill and La Vonne Sprague are moving to McHenry, 111., "a bit further away from the hustle, bustle, and pollution of Chicago, and hope to be able to travel more, including more time in Florida after our shake-down in our new home, now about completed." Bill comments, "In the almost 50 years of association with Dartmouth I never heard a disrespectful word spoken about our friends the Indians. (Men like Frell Owl built great respect for his race.) I'm genuinely sorry for any misunderstanding, real or imagined."

Bill King was at the Princeton game with a mixed-college group of friends and all remarked that the "Dartmouth team shirts and windbreakers featured the Indian—evidently they haven't read the papers. The Indian was about all that was familiar to me." Bill also expressed disappointment in the "complete disorganization and apparent boredom of the large and sloppy-looking Dartmouth cheer leader group. Be better not to have any cheerleaders at all, I would think."

Somewhat discouraged by the state of the world in general. Bill Pelton closed his note by saying, "Well, anyway, I have my table saw, joiner, band saw, and 90 acres to keep me occupied—and four young deer greeted me when I came out this a.m."

Ed Marston reports from Guadalajara that he keeps busy with "occasional golf, not enough reading, photography on trips to colonial towns and the Pacific, un poco elbow-bending, and Masonic activities."

Ben and Mim Bell's Christmas letter brought us up to date on all their many and varied activities of the past year and those of their large and scattered family of children and grandchildren. No wonder they say, "Now we wonder why we dreaded retirement. It is a time to do things we didn't have time for before." Travel occupies much of their time, it seems, yet after reading their idyllic description of life in Sarasota one wonders why they want to travel at all.

The Cary Stiffs' Christmas bulletin, "Dogwood Farm Doin's" is largely concerned with their travels, too. The Great River Road to New Orleans, the Missouri River, Glacier National Park, Montana Railroads, and the upper Great Lakes all seem to have been covered and well photographed by the indefatigable Helen and Cary.

Gordon Hope reports that he has taken up "water skiing at Kezar Lake, Center Lovell, Maine and seem to get along O.K. Have a fairly fast boat that hauls my increased girth up there and have a real doozy down here (Redington Beach, Florida) which gets you there on either end pronto."

See you in Hanover, June 11-13!

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