1912

Breezy, open-minded, and honest, with a love of Mexico as profound as it is joyous, is the opinion of the reviewer of Syd Clark's latest travel book on Mexico. The review appeared in the December issue of the Magazine which you should read. Then you may want to pack up and visit other cities there besides Acapulco.

Our efficient VP and newsletter editor, JoeDoe, reports that the Thayer School alumni are in the process of establishing a memorial professorship in the name of "Bobbie Fletcher," the original director of the School and way ahead of his time. We are proud of 1912's Thayer School group.

Grace Burnham keeps in touch with us and now reports Quech and Bertha French have been paying the hospital in Hanover a visit for check ups. Bertha's lower left extremity continues to give trouble and Quech is getting the old man's difficulty with vision. Roy Lewis' grandson, Charlie Taber, is living in Lebanon and employed at the Howard Johnson restaurant.

Recently we received a grateful letter from Ed Lathem of Baker Library thanking our class for all it has done to enrich the resources of the library through our Class Memorial Book program. That brings us to the sad duty of reporting two more deaths in 1912, LloydBugbee and Elwyn Taber, both on January 2, 1975. Both Lucy and Sheila expressed their appreciation for the gift of the Memorial Books. Lucy enclosed the program of Bug's memorial service, unique in that it had an international and ecumenical quality with the three participating ministers, one a Catholic, another from India, and a third the local pastor. QuechFrench represented the Class at the service. Sheila Taber had moved into Florence Lewis' former apartment at The Rialto in Venice, Fla.

An interesting article caught my eye in a recent issue of South African Panorama which our classmate, Bishop Brown, sends me each month. It relates the research being done on the various diseases prevalent in a population made up of five distinct groups - Whites, Blacks, Asiatics, Coloureds and Bantus - and the challenge for solution of pressing medical mysteries.

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