1930

John Tiedtke has been elected to chair the Rollins College Board of Trustees. NormaLowery writes from Mesa, Ariz., that Gil is still very active in retirement, managing the hardware department of a local store. Farther west, John Fletcher has moved from Woodide to Los Altos. He had been vice president of the Indiana National Bank in Indianapolis before retiring in 1962. Through correspondence with Gordon Hoxie re: British sport cars, I learned (1) that he is "cuddling carefully" his 1960 TR3 and (2) that he was leaving in early April for a couple of weeks in London.

We have learned with sorrow of the deaths of John R. Newcomb in October and Robert M.Kimball in March.

Eleanor and I again enjoyed visiting with Gwen and Dick Bowlen for a couple of days of skiing, up and down and cross-country. Dick is planning to resume his traditional skiing expedition to Tuckerman's this spring. Researching the 1970 40th reunion yearbook for column trivia, we have discovered that the following anticipated the 1978 resurgence of the bow tie: Alex McFarland, Bob Whittlesey, Cliff Vogt, Bill Wilson, Harry Dunning, Chuck Simmons, Bob Hooker, Rollie Booma, Boof Perkins, Dick Bacon, Sam Butler, and Bob Ryan.

Not everyone reads The New York Times, so we quote:

"On a clear day, from his unpretentious office on the 56th floor of Rockefeller Center's tallest building, Nelson A. Rockefeller can see his life with considerable detachment. There, in a philosophical mood on a recent afternoon, the former Vice President sipped a cup of tea, ate an Oreo cookie, reflected about his current activities and laced his conversation with intimations of mortality.

" 'I'm at the stage in life where nothing bothers me,' he said at the start of a 90-minute interview that marked his emergence from more than a year's inaccessibility to the press.

"Earlier this week Mr. Rockefeller disclosed that he had signed a contract with Alfred A. Knopf, the publishers, to produce five books about his personal art collection. He will also reproduce 100 works of art from his collection each year for sale to the public.

" 'I haven't got time at this point to start some little business except something that I love, like this,' he said.

" 'It may be hard to believe, that somebody who's dealt with a scale of things that I have can be interested in publishing art books and making reproductions and going through the problems of how you sell them, how you price them, how you distribute them,' he said, 'but those are interesting problems to me, relating to things I'm fascinated with.' "

Looking ahead. Ojai Reunion, June 6-8. Woodstock and Yale, October 13-15.

A final tribute to the late Bud French,to recall once more to our hearts and mindshis great devotion to the Class of 1930.

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