1916

The Class has lost four members: AustinLothrop Baker Jr., Roger Blakeslee Barott, OliverPaul Corwin, and George Stanley Irish. The sympathy of 1916 goes to their families.

Russell Leavitt was recently presented with a plaque by the West Volusia Council on Human Relations "in recognition of leadership and service to the community." The award was made at the annual meeting of the WVCHR on the campus of Stetson University, DeLand, Fla. The Council has sponored Evergreen Day School, Home and Neighborhood Development, Inc.; the West Volusia Neighborhood Center, and the Sugar 'N Spice Day Care Center. The organization also was instrumental in the development of the low-income housing project financed by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Agency through the City of DeLand.

John F. ("Jack") Gile Jr. '45, son of John F.("Jay") Gile '16 and "Ted," is in the insurance business in Hanover which was instituted by his uncle Archie Gile '17. Jack and Sally have a daughter Susan at the University of Vermont and a son Dewey who recently installed the candles on the birthday cake for his grandmother Ted and then helped blow them out at precisely the right time.

"Hi" and Laura McLellan send greetings from Dakar, Africa, and promise to keep us posted on the highlights of their world cruise on the "Gripsholm" which debarks in L.A.. on April 6.

Dan Dinsmoor reports: "A quick telephone check of the nearby members of the 1916 clan finds Dan Lindsley, Shorty Hitchcock, and Esky reporting that things are OK with them. The only real news is that Spence Sully is back home again after a cataract operation and convalescing normally though bored by the present limitations on his activities. As for myself the ailing eye is mak- ing progress however slow and I hope to have corrective lenses by May which should eliminate the double vision problem. ...

"I refrain from bragging about sunny Califor- nia as this has been a slightly cool winter and I don't have much to brag about yet in my garden except a few misguided iris that can't read the calendar and are blooming a month or two early."

Dan would like to know how many of us plan to attend the Post-50th Reunion, June 11-13.

So would I

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