1925

Bob McKennan is professor of anthropology emeritus at the College and has done work in this field in Alaska and other parts of the Arctic and sub-Arctic for 50 years. In March he was elected to life membership in the Alaska Anthropology Association and delivered the keynote address at the fifth annual meeting of the association in Anchorage. His subject was "Half a Century of Athapaskan Anthropology in Alaska." Following this meeting he went on to Fairbanks to speak at the University and then to California before returning home to Norwich.

There was a lot of other 1925 traveling to the west this past winter. Pete and GinieHaffenreffer spent some time in the area of Wickenburg, Ariz., and reported phone contacts with George Stevens and Lorraine Per-Lee.

Bill and Billee Jenkins had a combined air and sea trip to the Orient in February and March.

Dave and Gin Burner took a similar journey, in March and April, visiting Japan, Bangkok, Bali, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

And in May these same places saw and were seen by the Robert Cubbinses, who left Tequesta, Fla., for the Rotary International Convention in Tokyo.

Dick and Anita Heydt also went west, but not just on a vacation trip. They moved from Tryon, N.C., to the Carmel Valley in California and became happily settled there this past winter.

Tige Lyon did not report any winter travels from his Lake Forest home other than going to Chicago to attend the Christmas luncheon of Chicago Alumni. He was impressed by the coeducational atmosphere, which he shared with only one other '25er, Ike Burner. The latter was in the company of his sons, Dave Jr. '53 and Jim '59.

Art Smith responded with a return card from a newsletter and really made full use of the space, which is very gratifying and calls for quoting: "Since your instructions on this card in the 'Roundup' invited 'just plain greetings,' here they are. July 1 will bring the 50th anniversary of my residence in Toledo, Ohio, The results have been very limited contact with the College and the Class. This also makes the informality and personal touches of the 'Roundup' and the ALUMNI MAGAZINE all the more enjoyable, particularly in recent years. Except for a bout with the flu in recent weeks, my health has been excellent and also that of my dear wife Dottie. As a result, I have been able to enjoy a lot of golf during the last seven years of retirement. Learned the game on Hanover plain and still play it the same way. We also have been able to travel to California, Mexico, Yucatan, the Caribbean, and the Bahamas."

Line Davis writes from Easton, Mass., about a reference in the newsletter to the post-50th reunions: "I have been three times now, '25 being the youngest class represented. Some of the older classes have had good turnouts - as many as 10 or 15. Oldest last year was one fellow from '09 and one of the spryest! This might be a good idea for a mini-reunion."

Barrett Lyons has sold his home in East Lansing, Mich., and moved into an apartmenthotel type retirement center to be close to his wife Janet, who is in an attached nursing care facility. The new address is 2700 Burcham Drive, Apartment 350 and the zip code is 33823.

John Spring writes that they stayed home in Nashua, N.H., this winter and were "very warm and comfortable, which would have been difficult in the cold weather that afflicted Florida. We had enjoyed it there, but now that we are past our 50th reunion, we enjoy staying home."

Dan '62, son of "Patch" Tompkins, is a professor in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia and is engaged in building a Classics department at this institution of 35,000 students.

Our sympathy goes to "Perk" Fitch, whose son, Captain Charles P. Fitch of the U.S. Air Force, died this spring at the Veterans Ad- ministration Hospital in Dallas after a short illness. He had been a bomber pilot and served 20 months in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1963.

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