1914

It is hard to understand the reasoning of the broadcasting people when they fail to present television coverage of a football game such as the Harvard-Dartmouth contest. With all of the alumni of both institutions resident in New England, it would seem they missed a considerable group of potential viewers.

Then on the following Saturday we had full television coverage of the Cornell game in Ithaca. In near-hurricane rain and wind, with practically vacant stands, a Dartmouth disaster resulted. As we pen these notes (October 26) we hope that the Yale and Princeton games will have adequate television coverage.

Ruth Little sends another good letter from a widow, this time from Dorothy, Mrs. RufusSisson. She is living in Northport, Mich., but as usual is wintering at Ormond Beach, Fla., where she and Rufe spent many happy winter seasons. She urges anyone in that area to visit her at 1601 Ocean Shore Blvd. She lists her family as twelve grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren, with three arrivals in recent months.

Ruth and Lay planned to embark on the Rotterdam in Boston for a Caribbean cruise in mid-November. She reports that Lay was not too well this summer but has now improved.

Elmer Robinson has recently lost his wife Christina, a remarkable woman by all accounts. Christina Kristo Robinson was 93 years old when she died on May 12, 1980. She was Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California, where she also played center on the basketball team and was invited to join the honorary Prytanean Society. Fluent in four languages Russian, French, German, and Italian she taught for several years before she and Robbie were married. "She was the sweetest woman in the world," says Robbie, "and I was a very lucky man." We send our deepest sympathies to Robbie and their two Dartmouth sons, John '45 and James '51, to their daughter, and to their Dartmouth grandson, Mark '77.

Final note as always send news. Have our classmates all got writer's cramp?

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