1924

Classes will resume in four days (as I write) after the long recess. In the meantime we have had both usual and unusual holiday events: we delight in every one of the cards and letters (the Karslake family picture and Joe Burleigh's off- beat family letter are annuals we enjoy, plus a long letter from Les and Mildred Sycamore closing out their New Hampshire home for Florida and not to Haiti this year, at least); weather has been freakish - snow to rain to ice to rain again ... and those living in the Hartford (Conn.) area were without heat and lights for 2½ days and more and also had heavy damage from large branches breaking under the inch-thick-plus coating of ice. Margaret and I drove to New Jersey and N.Y. City without trouble for gasoline ... but that may be all for a while.

Finally, I have more sad news to report, the death of a classmate. Pop Foster, well-known to many. He was one more who had planned on our 50th Reunion.

And so I do not feel in the mood for a longer column this month. It has been a tragic six months or so for our class. I'll come back to happier news next month, tying in with the publicity for the 50th Reunion: plans are firming up much faster and better than par-for-the-course, thanks to Don Wilbur and his committee. It becomes more and more important that you make this one; it is trite but true: it's much later than you think. My New Year's wish for all is just "keep well!"

As we go to press, word comes of yet another departed classmate: Vim Heegaard died on December 31, 1973. No details are available as yet.

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