1925

Curt Abel, our distinguished Florida East Coast correspondent, submitted his annual report on 1925 activities in that area as follows:

"To help celebrate his 39th birthday |ast March, Connie and Elsa Conrad gathered a group of friends (including two Harvards and a Columbian) for a gala dinner party at their home in Boca Raton. Coop and Albie Rhodes came over from Sarasota, Bob and Baba Cubbins drove down from Tequesta, Dutch and Florence Schroedel came up from Hillsboro and Ross and LouisaPearl, Marian and Curt Abel, George and FranZahm and Win and Peg Prescott made the easy run from Delray Beach. A very pleasant and memorable occasion.

"Visitors to the Delray area this winter included Bob and Naomi Borwell, Ross and Marian Beatty, Bill and Billee Jenkins, Bill and Kathleen Bunting, Bill and Lucy Megee, and Eddie and Haven Blake. The Blakes did some house-sitting for the Zahms while George and Fran toured South America and caught some big trout in Argentina. The Blakes are considering a winter home in nearby Boynton Beach. On their visit to Lyford Cay they ran into Pete Blodgett of "Frugal Brugal" fame."

Larry and Dot Leavitt were also travelers to Florida and the Bahamas this winter and among others visited Lou and Adeline Kimball in Jacksonville and Bob and Catherine Weinig in Port Royal.

Sully Sullivan gave a talk this spring to the Old Guard of West Hartford, Conn., of which he is a member, on his three months work in Bolivia on an assignment with the International Executive Service Corps. The talk was illustrated with some very fine slides. Sully has been on several other similar overseas jobs in recent years.

Bob Palmer of Springfield, Mass., was named "Man of the Year" for 1972 by the Commercial Union Insurance Companies which Bob's agency has represented for more than 35 years. Bob gets a plaque, a luncheon and the satisfaction of a $2,000 scholarship being awarded in his honor to a deserving high school graduate.

Word has come of the death in Boise, Idaho, this spring of Elise B. Torbert, widow of Nat Torbert who died in 1953.

In the April issue of this Magazine the report of gifts, grants, and bequests of $5,000 or more received by the College during the last quarter of 1972 included one of $25,863 by Mrs. Berkeley F. Jones as an addition to a fund in her late husband's name for purposes to be determined later, and one of $15,000 from an anonymous member of the Class to establish a fund for unrestricted purposes.

Norm and Alice Smith are enjoying Shaker Heights, Ohio, after four years of retirement. Among the tilings Norm does to keep busy are the boards of trustees of his church, a hospital, and Denison University.

Ken and Flora Parker of LaGrange, Ill., try to see some of the rest of the world about once a year and in 1972 visited New Zealand and Australia. Prior to that trip they had been in Hanover for a Dartmouth Horizons program.

Hank Bjorkman sent in a note with his class dues check last winter which outlines another happy retirement: "I retired six years ago but still come to the office each day I'm in New York. One reason is that the Anglers' Club is but a stones throw away which gives me the opportunity to have lunch each day with my friends of many years. And I do hear Tall Tales! I enjoy the summers in northern Vermont and two fishing trips each year to my club in Canada ..."

Scoof Newton reports that while he retired in 1969 he is still going strong teaching German in six classes at the New Preparatory School in Cambridge, Mass.

Roy Adams wrote last winter that he retired the spring before and took a long trip which included Canada, California, and Mexico. Following that he and his wife sold their home in Decatur, Ga., and moved to their home in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

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