1927

Eleazer Wheelock breathes again - or at least so it seems to one '27er, Frank Cloran, who for several decades has been and still is practising public accounting in Dennis, Mass., on Cape Cod. For almost 25 years, Frank has been preparing the tax returns for a likeable widow who is now 84 years old and to whom he had never disclosed his college affiliation. This spring, when the matter came up in the course of a casual conversation, she suddenly perked up and smirked, "In that case, you'll be interested to know that I am the greatgranddaughter of Eleazer Wheelock. I understand that he was a man who could hold his likker." "Not knowing what to say to that," Frank Wrote, "I croaked a couple of lines about mixing drinks in the goodness of his soul, to her continued delight."

The important news of the month is that 1927 went over the top in its 1980 Alumni Fund performance, attaining 122.5 per cent of its objective, thanks to responses from 276 loyal classmates and widows. This, in turn, reflected the efforts of a larger than usual group of assistant agents and, of course, the super effort of our class head agent Bob Williamson, who masterminded the entire operation. The class officers and, I am sure, the College deeply appreciate all of these efforts.

Our travel bureau indicates that classmates have again been on the move.

Paul and Helen O'Connell went to Florida in January and followed this with a Caribbean cruise on the Cunard Countess, stopping off for a week in La Toq in Santa Lucia. Then they went back to Florida for three weeks and later to Arizona for a law meeting. After a three-day business meeting in Palm Beach early in April, Paul returned to his home base in Worcester, Mass., where he was happy to break 80 on the first day that his golf club opened for the season.

After returning from his vacation in Florida last February, Chuck Baker resumed his practice of law in Painesville, Ohio. One of the less pleasant duties which faced him, as a member of the Ohio Supreme Court Board of Commissioners and Grievances, was to hear disbarment cases.

Cug Daley has settled back to his life as sort of countryman on Boot Pond in Plymouth, Mass. after a five-week trip last January to London (which included a week in Holland).

Bob and Franchot Long spent the month of May visiting their son William and family in England. They also took time to explore Edinburgh and London before crossing the channel to spend a week in Burgundy, France, where they visited relatives of Franchot.

Forty miles was as far as your secretary and his wife Ruth had to travel in May to be entertained for dinner by Elizabeth and Jock Davis on their farm in Sterling Junction, Mass. As a special bonus we were treated to a tour around their extensive property which includes acres and acres of apple, peach, and pear orchards, a dairy farm, a cider mill, and an enclosed fruit and vegetable stand which is open all year round. Fortunately, we were in the middle of the apple blossom season and the row on row of fruit trees laden down with their white blossoms was indeed a sight to behold. The Davises are still very actively engaged in overseeing the various activities, although they have turned over much of the day-to-day operation to their sons.

Doc and Vera Harvey have at last become fed up with fighting the traffic and congestion in Sarasota and have sold their condominium there and moved to Villa on Mainland. Their new address is 3510 Village Court, Sarasota, Fla. 33581.

A Wah Who Wah for Dr. Thomas Hale Ham who in June was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

From Olean, N.Y., Bill Pelton broke a long silence with a long and welcome epistle. Bill still gets a kick out of drooling Over his college photo album with its shots of Old Timers' Day, Delta Alpha, the Picture Fight, trips to Moose Cabin, and more and added "I thoroughly enjoy the alumni notes, and Tom Gillespie's "Speakeasy," both of which I proudly and regularly show to friends and neighbors, few of whom have ever seen their like."

The New York Times carried an interesting article a short while ago beside a full length photo of authors Francis Steegmuller and his wife Shirley Hazzard. The piece was captioned "For Two Writers, Separate Silences" and related a number of interesting details of their daily life in New York City. We especially liked the following sentences, which are taken out of sequence, but, nevertheless, express the gist of the article. "Artists and musicians have their impedimenta: easels, paint pots, grand pianos, etc. Writers' impedimenta are at least as large and as awkward as a grand piano and more cumbersome for being invisible . . . two writers; two silences. Household management for two writers married to each other consists largely of managing the silences. Yours goes here, mine there. Mine needs exercise, yours, repose."

And with that, we'll say, "See you next month."

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