1930

We are winding down for the summer with our reunion at Pocantico Hills on June 15, but don't forget that there is another big one coming up at Woodstock and Hanover for the Princeton weekend October 11-12. Then into 1975 with the 1930 Academic Conference at Aspen January 22-26, sponsored by Henry Stein. President Kemeny has enthusiastically agreed to participate and to keynote the session. About 20 classmates have already indicated a firm interest in attending.

Betty and Ted Wolf have completed a 9000 mile train trip through Mexico and visited with Louise and Bob Keene in Guanajuato, 225 miles northwest of Mexico City. "They have a truly lovely house 1,200 feet above the city so have a tremendous view of 100 miles on a clear day. They saw our train approaching 30 miles away." The Wolfs have also visited son Roger '60 in Tuscon and drove to Green Valley to see the Marrs and the Chilcotes.

The Class has lost one of its most loyal members. Arthur M. Browning died on April 25. Our sympathy is extended to Martha and their children.

Fred Brunner who has been in the investment business in Venice, Fla., has moved to Endwell, N.Y., which sounds like a retirement natural. Hank Wood recently attended a W. T. Grant retirees' meeting in Fort Lauderdale and while there visited with Dorothea Heimbach. Hank is active in St. Johnsbury Kiwanis and Jean and he are hockey buffs, traveling to Montreal, Hanover, and Boston to satisfy their interest.

Ann and Fred Watson who winter in Marathon, Fla., will spend the summer at their Spofford Lake N.H. home.

Gordon Hoxie won the annual award of the Mail Advertising Club of New Enlish, Presented at the club's Direct Mail Day in Boston. Now smiretired after having been creative director of Boston's DR Group Gordon was cited for his outstanding contribution to the quality of direct mail marketing in both standards and reputation. In his 36 years with DR. he had the opportunity to train many writers, now nationlly known.

Back in 1936, The New York Times columnist Lucius Beebe wrote "Whether there can be any real successors to the fabulous and legendary brothers Mizner whose flair for the business of living and whose enormous gusto achieved the rank of genius is problematical. Perhaps no age will ever know another Wilson and Addison. But if there are in Manhattan any two claimants to their mantles, they are the brothers Bill and Collier Young." Forty-two-years later, Los Angeles Times columnist Burt Prelutsky wrote "Were I to retain a guru, he would have to be a gent who had successfully coped with all the irksome frustrations of modern-day life; a true sophisticate and bon vivant; a person of rare courage and incomparable insight - to my mind, Collier Young is a true American folk hero. He is the stuff of which legends are made. Compared to his exploits, those of Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Pecos Bill were small potatoes; and Paul Bunyan was bush league."

Have a good summer! Two years to 1930's 46th.

Secretary, 56 Jennys Lane Barrington, R.I. 02806

Acting Class Agent, 15th Floor, 100 Wall St. New York, N.Y. 10005