1928

It is wonderful to be able to report that '28 exceeded its Alumni Fund quota of $46,000 by $4,903! Let's have a resounding "Wah Hoo Wah" for those who made the record possible, and another one for class agent Bill Lary and his assistants.

Mitch and Grace Mitchell went to England and Scotland in June. They rented a car and drove for three weeks, stopping off to visit families Mitch knew during World War II. Mitch found them most friendly and hospitable, just as they had been 35 years ago. He established a record of sorts by going through Andover, Exeter, and Dartmouth in one day.

A card from Budapest from John and PeggyPhillips said it was interesting but it would have been more fun to have Mimi and Herb Sensenig show them around.

Jack and Fran Kenerson enjoyed a North Cape cruise and were blessed with good weather, particularly above the Arctic Circle.

Ethie Pollock had a cataract operation on one eye and has to go in for the other one in September or October. Craw said they couldn't go north last summer to see the kids.

Brooklyn surgeon Milt Hoefle writes, "Peggy and I love it up here in Heritage Village. It is our Shrangri La and retirement spot to needlepoint rugs (per encouragement from Myles Lane's wife Maggie), do woodwork, play golf, and watch the planted begonias bloom. It beats working!"

Ev and Katharine Fields, also Heritage Village residents, were in Ozark country for their granddaughter's wedding.

Roy Myers started his vacation at the Festival of the Wine Growers in Vevey, Switzerland, on August 4 and then spent six weeks in France. He has lectures booked in the East in October (still gbing strong with his perennial favorite: "The Romance of Words"), then more lectures in California. After some months there he'll be giving lectures back East in February-March. Hopes to return to China in April and will definitely be back in time for our 50th. Roy spent a weekend with Bill and Betty Dietz in Katonah, N.Y.

Rube and Karla Rubin have been going to Europe every year. Karla has a sister in Switzerland, then they spend a few months at a seashore resort in Israel, Natanya, named after Nathan Strauss. This year they also enjoyed a trip down the Mississippi River on the DeltaQueen.

Ted Meltzer, enroute from Washington, D.C., to visit friends in Ithaca, N.Y., stopped to get gas in Troy, Pa., and called my office. I did my best to get him and Jeanne to stop by for a visit, but they were over an hour late for a luncheon engagement.

Gene and Fran Magenis of Coral Gables spent part of their summer vacation really studying their Spanish at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Wayne Van Orman and Hank Graupner, both fellow summer residents of Cape May, N.J., joined in sending us a card.

Phil Orsi enjoys doing needlepoint - might as well join the experts, Phil, like Maggie Lane, George Emery, and Milt Hoefle.

Answering a question we asked about grandchildren, Red Fauntleroy writes that he has 17 blood grandchildren and his son married a woman with two children, so that makes a grand total of 19.

Since our last class notes column in the June issue, we have had the sad news of the passing of five beloved members of our class: Mai Beal,Bud McKenney, Honie Westhaver, FredBurleigh, and Don Norris.

Dave McCathie, after several years of living in Alexandria, Va., is back in Ridge Manor, Fla., again. He went down for a visit - never dreamed of buying a house, but he did, and he's as happy as a clam.

You will be hearing a lot about our 50th. Be sure to make plans to be there.

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