1929

Friends ask, "How do you keep busy? Does it put you in a tizzy? All that time to kill, I'd think you'd go berserk."

Nonsense. Now that I'm "retarded" I don't feel at all discarded. How'd I ever find the time to go to work?

Try to reach many classmates, and you'll see that the above applies to most of us. With JackHubbard in Europe and Duke Barto in Canada, the best sources for this column have been missing. John Laffey sent an article on Joe Losey's upcoming movie of Don Giovanni, which is covered in our newsletter and elsewhere.

John Quebman reports the sad news from Harold Montamat on Martha's Vineyard that his wife Joan died last March.

Charlie King and Mary and John Moxon and Roz will both be on the Dartmouth Travel cruise to the Greek islands this October.

We met Bob Carr's widow Olive and JohnDavis's widow Phoebe, now Mrs. Arthur Thibodeau, at a party this summer; both are doing well. I was startled to see a young, handsome Bob Carr, who turned out to be his son Eliott — you know the feeling.

The Cape Cod Dartmouth Club has 20 '29ers in its area. We've had 16 at one meeting. The club clambake is too late for this report.

At the 50th, Dan and Lois Luten told us about seeing Andy Scarlett '10 in South Windham, Maine. We had heart-warming correspondence with him through his daughter just before he died. Class of '29 SAE's owed a lot to Andy.

Stan Piatt sent Al Finlay a fine picture of the Platts and Finlays through your secretary. If you lose any '29ers we'll find 'em. Slip in an extra word if you can.

Robert McClory '30, serving his ninthterm as a U.S. Representative from Illinois,is the ranking Republican on the HouseJudiciary Committee. Bob's wife Doris hasserved as president of the CongressionalClub, a non-partisan community group.

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