1925

Lloyd Brace received the Alumni Award at the 11th annual banquet of the Boston Alumni Association on April 1. A report of this event appeared in jast month's issue of this magazine. '25ers present, besides Lloyd and Helen, were not and Larry Leavitt, George and Virginia Newman, Don Hunt, Scoof Newton and Bunny and Marian Levison. The president of the Boston club was Bob Brace '52, oldest son of the honored couple and the invocation was given by Henry Crawford's son Jim '58 who is the minister at the Old South Church.

Mott Garlock keeps busy as chairman of the board of finance of the town of Suffield, Conn. where he lives, chairman of the board of trustees of the Congregational Church, and as a trustee of Western New England College. Spending five months in the spring and fall in Suffield, he has an equal time in the summer at Groton-Long-Point on Fishers Island Sound and two months in the winter in Florida.

The New York Times reports this spring that the New York Yacht Club, the co-sponsor with the Royal Thames Y.C. of England, expects an entry of at least 30 yachts for the race across the Atlantic Ocean that will start from Newport, R.I., on June 29. One of these will be Carina, owned by Dick Nye of Greenwich, Conn., which won the last trans-Atlantic race in 1972. Dick also had won two others before that.

Charlie Graydon drove from Katonah, N.Y., this spring to attend the C. and G. dinner in Hanover. Our other representative was tarry Leavitt who just had to drive across the river.

Larry Bankart wrote from Needham, Mass., that he and Louise were going to have to miss the 50th because their youngest son was to be graduating from Princeton at that time. Their oldest son, Dartmouth '67 with a Ph.D. also from Dartmouth, is a professor at Wabash College and the middle boy is in the Navy on a hunter-killer destroyer in the South Pacific. Like most of us, Larry is retired, but is there anyone else who had a son in college this year?

Maida Slater who lives in Evanston, Illinois, also had a conflict with our reunion dates. She was elected a trustee of Seabury Western Theological Seminary last fall and their commencement meeting was at the same time.

On Easter Sunday All Saints Church in Bay Head, N.J., dedicated a new memorial processional cross given by Mrs. S. Barclay Colt in memory of her late husband, Eddie Hewitt.

El Waring is enjoying a new house he and his wife built last year in South Swansea, Mass., and he still spends a few hours a day at his business of police and fire department supplies.

Ford Barrett retired from the Spokane, Wash., real estate business which his father had founded in 1894 and in which Ford has been active since 1925. In addition to their home there he and Virginia have a place on the lake about 30 miles from town.

Nort Canfield moved back to Connecticut from Mexico which he found interesting but where he could not practice medicine. Current address is Stony Creek, near Branford.

Travel notes from this past year ... FrankCalkins on a third trip to Mexico, having put in some 40 to 45 thousand miles in three Airstream trailers ... Bill Boies, a cruise on the "Kungsholm" to the Mediterranean and the Adriatic ... Fred Webster also in the Adriatic, and a tour of Europe before going to Florida ... Roily Stebbins driving thousands of miles on his Program of seeing a football game at all the state universities of the nation (only 12 to go as of last fall, and besides he has those round the world skiing jaunts) ... Bill and Billee Jenkins also rolling up the auto mileage (9,000) on a journey from Cape Code to the Southwest and southern California, back by way of Florida and then to Maine, which became their 28th state in 28 days.

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