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Laddie Myers was there! Where? At our 55th Reunion, June 6-8, 1975 in Hanover. Moreover, he made the welkin ring at our class banquet, joining other songsters at our head table in nostalgic songs. And he was at Loon Mountain, too - though his name was inadvertently omitted somehow in our report - and in fine fettle. His transport from Loon Mountain did pose a problem however. Should he enplane at Manchester? Or at Hartford, Conn.? I don't rightly know. I can only say that Laura and I waved goodbye to Laddie as he drove from Loon Mountain Lodge down the hill southward towards somebody's airport to make connection for Florida. So, whomever you doubting Thomases may be. Laddie Myers is not "the little man who wasn't there" but "the very big man who was very much in evidence on the Hanover Plain and at Loon Mountain." (My abject apologies, Lad, for a gross oversight. Forgive me. I'll work hard to reform.)
The highlights of a report from Steve Graves in Novato, Calif.: an extremely active year of tennis and most successful for the most part. Steve travelled to Charlottesville, Va., to defend his title. He had to settle for the runner-up position in 1975 in the singles match. However, teaming with T. Jefferson Glover of Phoenix, the pair took the doubles championship handily, 6-2, 6-7, 6-0. Steve is especially proud of the great honor which the City of Novato conferred upon him last August, naming four public courts the Stephen M. Graves Courts. What a truly remarkable and active life this young septuagenarian leads in his retirement!
It doesn't take Paul Richter long to get his roots down in Denver, Colo. He writes of having a visit with Duke Sabourin and trying to persuade the Duke to attend a Dartmouth Club luncheon with him but Duke declined. Paul reports that Duke lost his wife some years ago, we are sorry to say, and now lives alone, except for his pet poodle. Paul expects to move in with his son-in-law and daughter upon the completion of their new home in the very near future.
Treasurer Al Frey's preliminary report on the state of the class finances in June was reassuring Without going into detail at this time our surplus is still mounting. How long this will continue is anyone's guess as times reduces our number inevitably. We can report that our reunion income and expenses just about coincided. Treasurer Ken Spalding was able to return the $500 advance by the Class plus two dollars additional, thanks to the use of a NOW account and the collection of a little interest.
In a message to Al Frey, Gene Fiske writes from his home base, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., the following succinct message "I'm in pretty good shape for the shape I'm in." You can draw your own conclusions but I'd say Gene has not lost his sense of humour.
From Cheboygan, Mich., Kinney Smith adds a note to his dues bill, again from Al Frey, as follows "Mildred and I spent the month of June and part of July experiencing the thrills of our first glimpse of Lake Louise and the Canadian Rockies, and that wasn't the best. The trip up the Inland passage followed. Then the Gold Rush Trail and the Land of the Midnight Sun defy description."
From Al Cate to Frey to Carter comes a UPI story in The Daily Transcript, Norfolk Country Family Advertiser, labelled "New England Horizons" seeking relief from the heat of the past New England summer, visitors (some 1,200 each day) flocked to Loon Mountain in Lincoln, N.H. - the popular winter ski resort where Sherm and Rachel Adams preside. There they found on the top of Loon Mountain six Vermont fiddlers playing "Jingle Bells" while two gray haired ladies danced the polka. Nearby a brawny blacksmith was hammering out copper teaspoons! What this imaginative Vermont couple will produce next is anyone's guess.
Meanwhile down in Norwich, Vt., busy Al Foley, editor of Twenty, moves quietly about assisting in the ceremonies dedicating a new wing to the Public Library and directing plans of the Norwich Bicentennial Committee which he chairs.
Well, friends, this is the month of Christmas. May it be a blessed one for all of you. To paraphrase Lowell Thomas "So long until next year."
Adios, amigos.
Secretary, 2549 East Beryl Ave. Phoenix, Ariz. 85028
Treasurer, Dresden, Maine 04342
