1910

Helen Porter (Jim's widow) spent the winter at the Island Inn on Sanibel Island. We visited her several times. She is quite well. She left for her home in Heightstown, New Jersey, in mid-April.

Art Lord and Mac Kendall attended the alumni luncheon in St. Petersburg in March. The speaker was Mike McGean '49 who made a very favorable report on college doings, just what alumni like to hear.

Ken Phelps wrote in April that after three months since Ora had her emergency operation, she is now showing improvement and he expected to take her out for a ride any day.

Since I will not leave Sanibel until May 1, I have asked Larry Bankart to represent the Class at the class officers meeting on April 30 and May 1. Larry and Miriam left Clearwater on April 14 for their summer home in Norwich, Vt.

Bill Taylor, who will be 89 on June 15, has lived alone in his trailer in Briny Breezes Park in Delray Beach since his wife Ella died. Bill has his summer home trailer parked on Cape Cod. He has not yet decided whether he will drive his car to Cape Cod this year. Bill leads a simple life but an enjoyable one. For many years he has handled the tax returns for many of his trailer friends, but they are all gone, and he says it is enough trouble making out his own. For several years he has fashioned and decorated food servers from palm spathes for his friends in the park, but so many of his older friends are now gone he is making very few these days.

Bones Jones writes that their older son Kim-ball is planning on spending a couple of months with his family in England, Scotland, and France. Kimball will do further work at the Sorbonne. Kimball is a teacher at Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Mass., where the headmaster is Ted Gleason, son of our own Gay Gleason. Their younger son Dana is employed at ITEB in Lexington, Mass., as contract administrator in space and photography work.

Horace Chadbourne sent me birthday greetings on my 88th. He said he made it through the winter at Columbia Falls, Mont. He spent three weeks in Spokane with his daughter Melissa and other family. He recalls his visit to our home in Minneapolis with Noah Foss

several years ago. Arthur Lord came down to Sanibel in late April to visit us for three days. He was here to help Karen and me celebrate my 88th birthday. We had a wonderful visit - largely concerned about how to stimulate more class news.

Karen and I plan to leave Sanibel May 1 to drive home and stop in Clearwater to have lunch with Andy Scarlett, Leon Kendall, and Art Lord. It will be a nice reunion of 10 per cent of our living members.

I have just received a news clip from Pineo Jackson announcing the death of his wife Mora, whom he married in October 1941. We all mourn the great loss with Pineo.

Secretary, Co-secretary, KAREN EASTMAN 7000 Valley View Road Minneapolis, Minn. 55435

Class Agent, 31 Island Way, Apt. 208 Clearwater, Fla. 33515