1927

Hello again. It's been a long time since our last, in June.

This is the year when half of the class passes the 75-year-old mark, and over half of the half had successfully made it by June 30. Replies to our birthday congratulations to those celebrating this memorable achievement have been many, of which the following are only a few.

Charlie Bartlett had a lot going in his 75th year. In June he was honored at a dinner at Boston's Copley Plaza Hotel, at which he received the Paul Dudley White Award. This is the highest honor bestowed by the American Heart Association and was in appreciation of Charlie's efforts combating heart disease over a period of 30 years. Earlier, in February, and in New York City, he was presented the Richard S. Nye Award by the Cruising Club of America. The citation read, "To a man who has brought distinction to the club by meritorious service, not only as a Rear Com- modore in the Navy, but for the numerous navigation guides that he has written." In June, Charlie and Barbara watched their grandson, Thomas Hastings Bartlett, receive his diploma with the 1980 graduating class. And, to top all this off, he celebrated his 75th in June with a party at his Dedham, Mass., home. According to the din which greeted our ears when we phoned him, his wife Barbara, Doane andMarie Arnold, and Ken Ballantyne ably assisted in the celebration.

Ken Yeaton gave credit for his accomplishment to having been blessed with a faithful and loving wife, the same one for over 40 years. He moved to Naples, Fla., on his retirement in 1975 and has been so busy since then with Rotary, the Aubudon Society, and the local chapter of Meals-on-Wheels that he reluctantly decided to sell his boat about a year ago.

Dick Fox sent in a long letter describing the pleasant and quiet life that he leads down in Sarasota, Fla. He ventures out of state very seldom but does have lunch occasionally with Dot Cleveland and Al and Edna McDonald.

In contrast, and in conjunction with their 50th wedding anniversary, Dick and PaullyMooney celebrated both events with a visit to Spain in February and one to England in June. Dick noted, "No more skiing for me, but no one else skied in lowa last winter as there was no snow. My golf suffers, too, this at the expense of birdwatching."

Al Wellman's reply informed us that last January he finally succumbed to the urge to forsake permanently the northern winters of Jamestown, N.Y., and moved to 807 Spyglass Lane in Naples, Fla. 33940.

Here is another change of venue: CharlieBrewster has moved and his new mailing address is P.O. Box 306, Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 38578. And still another: Doc and EleanorMilliken moved last April from Annapolis, Md., to a cottage in a retirement home at C 057 Fairhaven, 7200 Third Avenue, Sylesville, Md. 21874. In April, when he wrote, Doc was recovering slowly from a strained bicep muscle, but notwithstanding, he and Eleanor had recently spent a night visiting with Norm andRuth Swift at the latters' home in Montrose, Va.

Don Megathlin has satisfactorily weathered his first 75 years, according to his card from Yarmouthport, Mass., on Cape Cod, where he occasionally sees Ding Heap at Dartmouth luncheons.

For Al Lawrence's 75th year activity, he and Jean migrated north from Key West, where they live, to spend the summer in Pittsfield, Mass., with Jean's daughter Diane. They expect to stay north until October so as to attend the fall reunion.

Jack Oakes cheated the postal service of 150 by answering both his 74th and 75th birthday cards in one letter. It wasn't really his fault, though, since when he moved from Springfield, Ill., a year ago last July to Sovereign Lane, Or- mond Beach, Fla. 32074, it seems that the new owners of his former home took almost a year to forward his 1979 mail.

An event of particular note was the reunion in May of the 50-year class of the Harvard Law School. This found five classmates and three wives in attendance. They were: Syd and RuthHarris, Hank Bayles, Paul and HelenO'Connell, Dud Bonsai, and Charlie and Bar-bara Bartlett.

Jack Thees took advantage of his 75th to send us a card from Houston, Tex., showing a colored picture of the famous "Jackalope." Jack had traveled cross country from his home in Pompano Beach, Fla., to see his son receive an M.B.A. from the University of Houston. "While there," he wrote, "I managed to shoot a jackalope. They're delicious."

We extend the sympathies of the class to the families of the following classmates whose deaths have come to our attention during the summer: David Merriam (April 30), Frell Owl(May 18), William Corregan (June 8), HenryCopeland (June 30), and Philip Thompson (June 19).

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