1927

Hello again:

We had a good summer here and hope it was the same with you. Now we turn the pages of the calendar over to start a new reporting season.

We've received a lot of correspondence of late, mostly in response to brithday cards. Wish we could answer all of it individually, but anyhoo, many thanks to all.

"One way to invoke a response," writes RogBury, "is to pass along a rumor (June column) that is half-right and half-wrong. Yes, we do have a place in the woods and hills some eight miles from Bellows Falls, beside a pond with waterfalls (and boy, do we ever have waterfalls). But we are not moving permanently from Westport, Conn. The new place is primarily for our son Curtis '53 and grandson David '78, both woodsmen, not to mention our daughter-in-law. Incidentally, Marion and I are off in July to visit Charlie and Barbara Bartlett in Ireland."

Bill Hollands actually is moving. His new address is 450 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, Fla., 33548.

Al House broke a long silence with the following, which was Walpole, N.H.: "Here I sit at our summer camp in Wolfboro, lapping up the sunshine. Except for three trips to the hospital, each of short duration, I am doing fine. I'm enjoying my three-year-old retirement and waiting around for 1982 and our 55th reunion. No grandchildren yet, but I hear one is on the way. My wife is still working at the university back home in Endwell, N.Y., but she'll be quitting one of these years and we will then get back to fall reunions."

Other vacation news came in from JohnnyRintels on Martha's Vineyard. He wrote, "We are enjoying a relaxed and almost totally useless summer here, welcoming family and friends for a few days at a time, with intervening periods of recuperation."

Ed and Dot Jacobs expected to spend much of July and August covering New England in their Airstream. In June, they spent a few days in Dot's hometown of Essex, Conn., and then were off to Maine to do some selling for the family business (gourmet seasoning products and frozen lobsters) before the peak of the resort season. "By late summer," Ed wrote, "we just might take a short trip to Europe, depending on conditions such as the value of the U.S. dollar in Deutchmarks."

On July 15, Brad Fuller celebrated his 75th birthday in Newburyport, Mass., with no less than 63 family members and friends.

And while we are on the subject of birthdays, Jock and Elizabeth Davis and Fred Fellingham and friend spent the afternoon and evening of July 1 at your secretary's and wife Ruth's home in Wayland. This just happened to be the writer's birthday, but the occasion was actually to celebrate a three-day stopover in Boston by Fred and his friend after a six-week tour of Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales.

Thomas Hale Ham recently received well-deserved recognition in two-page article in the Dartmouth MedicalSchool Alumni Magazine. The article noted that over the years, Hale has received awards of distinction from Cornell Medical College, the American College of Physicians, and the American Association of Medical Colleges. His medical activities include having served as president of both the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Society of Hematology and as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Medical Education. His career also included professorships at Harvard Medical School, Western Reserve Medical School, and, since 1974, a visiting professorship at Dartmouth Medical School. There, he has been active in the affairs of Dick Hall's House and in advising undergraduates interested in pursuing medical careers.

Bill MacKay, our former roommate, sent in a long letter reporting that he is fine. He says, "I don't know how one is supposed to feel at 74, but I seem to do the same amount of physical work as always, except that I reach the fatigue point a little quicker." In November of last year, Bill and Jeanette spent two weeks in Hawaii. Unfortunately, on their last day, their car was struck and demolished by an oncoming bus. Bill received only minor injuries, but Jeannette was severely injured. When he wrote in May, she had recovered substantially and by now, we hope, completely.

We are sorry to have to report the deaths of two classmates: Dudley A. Noyes and Rollin H.Person. Their obituaries will appear elsewhere in the MAGAZINE.

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