1928

Bob Reid joined Jack Cook in Vancouver, 8.C., and with a group of 25 went with the "Canadian River Expedition" by boat and seaplane across the coast range to Lake Chilco. For the next seven days they rafted down the Chilco and Fraser Rivers, then returned to Vancouver by train. Bob and Jack said it was a most exciting adventure amid a scenic wilderness.

George Davis, who at this time of year lives in Tinmouth, Vt., attended the class presidents' meetings in Hanover on October 26 and 27 during the Cornell game weekend. George invited Marge Rockwell of Loudonville, N.Y., to attend the Brown game on November 10. She will have come with Ned Pitkin '31 and his wife Dela, who live in Loudonville.

Hammie Hammesfahr was sorry he missed the mini-reunion on the Princeton game weekend, but he had a recurrence of his leg trouble. Hammie says that except for his and Gratia's 23rd cruise aboard their friend's 40-foot Concordia yawl, they have done nothing else of note. Their cruising grounds are deep in Maine - Mt. Desert, Bay of Fundy, etc. - which they swear is the loveliest cruising area in North America.

The notes you write thanking me for your birthday cards are a joy to receive and frequently include welcome bits of news. Sending the cards has been a continuing source of satisfaction to me for 20 years.

John Nixon is still engaged in the insurance business with his sons and has no intention of retiring.

Mary and I had a wonderful eight-day vacation in Scotland in early October. We rented a car at the Prestwick Airport and drove up the west coast to Ullapool and back via Inverness and Braemar and had time for three days in Edinburgh. Beautiful scenery and good weather.

Topper Robinson wrote, "Last year when I went to Bernie O'Keeffe's funeral services, his sister Beatrice (Bob MacPhail's widow) looked pretty well, but she died September 17. The church in Brookline where her funeral was held is only a few blocks from where I grew up, but it's much farther than I can drive these days. Following cataract surgery I had great success with a soft lens, but I now have trouble with it, caused by excess protein in my tears. When the new semi-permanent lens is perfected that may be my solution. In the meantime, working as a volunteer in the local Hyannis Hospital has great therapeutic value." Topper's new address is 67 Sea Street, Apartment K-5, Hyannis, Mass. 02601.

After 45 years, Bill Morton has a new office address: 307 Hurlburt Road, Syracuse, N.Y. 13224. Climbing up the ladder, he became president of the Onondaga County Savings Bank in 1958 and was named to chair its board in 1973.

The Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel of September 18 ran a feature article headed, "Coach Fusonie - a superstar." You'd be interested in the entire article, but space limitations force condensation. A 1 is the assistant coach for the Pine Crest Junior High School football team. He is 74 years old and has had four major cancer operations in the past year and a half. Yet each afternoon, he's out there passing on what he has learned. A 1 played end on the Dartmouth team that won the national championship back in 1925. Two-thirds of that team had Phi Beta Kappa scholastic averages the semester they won the championship and Al was one of the top scholars. After graduation, he taught German and Latin at the Taft School for 14 years, then entered the business world. He retired in 1966 as director of industrial relations for Collins and Aikins Corporation. For men like Al, retiring from one job means looking for another. So he became a Latin and German teacher at Pine Crest School in Ft. Lauderdale, doubling as varsity coach from 1967 to 1971. He stopped teaching last year but he continues coaching because he loves working with youngsters. In addition to coaching, Al does the housework while his wife Fay works for a stockbroker.

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