1931

News that accompanied class dues: JackEwing: "Still working ten hours per day, six days a week, and love it! 69 years, don't feel 40, not a pound of fat, sleep like a baby, and live it up each day."

Jack Frisby: "I have unretired myself for the third time since 1974. Despite the laws of man, 65 is not the end, but the beginning. The avenues are limited and not easy to search out, but they are there. My new horizon is a sunrise, not a sunset. I guess it keeps me young to have a beautiful wife and two children in their 20's."

Frank Pope: "[Class dues and ALUMNI MAGAZINE are] one tie with Hanover I don't want to lose. Not much is new except that government agencies and consumerists are making it tougher to survive (and 'survive' is the word)."

George Tarr: "Retired these last four years, from 40-odd years of teaching and school administration. Busy on the board of managers of the first Universalist church in America, in Gloucester, Mass. Wish I could have attended reunion; look forward to the 50th in 1981!"

Bob Tonis: "First of the year had marvellous visit with fellow jazz freak Dick Holbrook and wife Peg in Phoenix, the land of sunshine. We didn't know each other in college but were brought together via mail in recent years through mutual interest in the pure American music. He has one of the great record collections."

Steve Williams: "Present activities include: consultant for Precision Airlines, North Springfield, Vt.; president of Fall Mountain YMCA; director of Connecticut Valley Watershed Council; town auditor and library trustee of Walpole, N.H."

Irv Bettman wrote on January 5: "Gertrude and I are off next Monday for a week in Williamsburg and Charlottesville with our Virginia children. On the way back I'll come through Cincinnati, where I still spend a couple of days each month." (Irv was formerly employed in Cincinnati.)

On March 28 John Boermeester wrote: "Marion and I are off to Europe on the 30th to visit our daughter and family who are living in Florence. We bought a Eurail pass and are planning to visit Sicily, Switzerland, Paris, Monaco, and Amsterdam."

Bob Dickey: The acronym SCORE stands for Service Corps Of Retired Executives. It is a wholly voluntary group sponsored by the Small Business Association to help small businesses get started and to keep them out of trouble after they are started. We meet once a month to discuss our clients' problems and are assigned clients who need specialized services we can offer.

"Our Cape Cod chapter sponsors a course in "How to Start Your Own Business" at the local Community College and offers work seminars twice a year.

"The only entrance requirement is that you be retired and are willing to give a few hours each week to help those who need it.

"You and lots of our classmates might, as I did, find SCORE an interesting outlet for excess energy resulting from retirement."

Jim Frame: "Having been on a cruise only once in our married life, we decided this was the year so we took off for two weeks to South America and then back to Miami to take a plane to Grand Cayman for our fourth time. It's a beautiful island and up to now isn't overburdened with tourists. Gorgeous weather and water. Then back to Boca Raton for four days (enough) - on one of them the temperature hit 94 - and home. Glad to be here and now will await the sun and beauty of the Cape."

Red "Baron" Gristede: "Am up here at my favorite hangout (Lake Placid Club) but this time for a rest - four days alone. Plenty of snow, very quiet. Called Bob Tonis, who is in hospital with an operation, but, thank God, benign. My family going to Japan but I'm staying home - can't handle chopsticks and allergic to saki.

"Heard from Ernie Moore, now in Haines City, Fla. Getting ready for 50th already!"

Ed Gruen to the Cogswells from Lahore, Pakistan: "Greetings from a country we never planned to see this, or any year! What happened is that January 4 I was asked to pack and get here fastest to teach the material on Econ Data Processing my colleagues and I have been writing the past two years. This I did for four weeks in Karachi (six days a week). Didn't know I still had it in me. Berta is enjoying the reprieve from U.S. cold spell."

Marty Zinn disputes Bill Hayden's claim to being next to the youngest member of our class. He points out that he was 19 at graduation, youngest except for Art Ecker, and that he didn't reach 65 until December 4, 1976.

My apologies to those classmates omitted.

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