1928

Class secretaries sometimes find it difficult to get news, despite regular requests, so I tried the telephone on a recent Sunday afternoon, very successfully.

John Turkevich was reached in Princeton, N.J. His life is a busy one and his energy just as boundless as it was before he retired as Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry at Princeton. He is working very actively on cancer research at his Princeton laboratory, in cooperation with the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York City, and he is excited by the results being obtained. He spent October attending meetings in Stockholm of the Swedish Academy of Science and lecturing at the Universities of Upsala and Lund in Sweden, the University of Paris, and the University of Madrid. He has accepted an invitation to go to China in June to speak before the Chinese Academy of Science and lecture in Chinese universities. Son of a distinguished head of the Russian Orthodox Church in America, John has also carried on his religious heritage as chaplain to Princeton students who share his faith. A final news item is that Mila will retire at the end of the year as a professor of Russian at Rutgers.

r c~ A call to Allene Prosser in Canaan, N.H., garnered the information that Hanover has no snow, but that there is a snow statue on mid- campus in Hanover, thanks to the Outing Club or whoever manages those things. A 30-by-30- by-30-foot pile of artifical snow was amassed, from which the statue was made. The day before I talked to Allene, the Prossers and Herb and Mimi Sensenig had attended the Hanover Skating Club's annual skating show, which filled Thompson Arena. Curly was out of telephone reach, bringing in a load of logs for their wood stove. However, he called back with news items which were very much appreciated, including word that Lane Dwinell is chairing the Grafton County Reagan-for-President Committee. (Watching the CBS national news program last night, Mary and I saw Lane standing beside Reagan in four different shots of the New Hampshire primary campaign.) Curly is chairing the town Bush-for-President Committee, so obviously the New Hampshire primary is getting a lot of people involved. Class Agent Prosser has lined up 53 assistant class agents, including nine class officers, 15 members of the executive committee, and 29 other workers. The class goal is $70,000, and the campaign starts April 1. Incidentally, College records show that there are 369 living '28 ers.

Again thanks to efforts on the telephone, we learned that Jack Rose had a stroke on Christmas Day in La Jolla and is coming along well, and that Al Fusonie of Pompano Beach, Fla., has had another operation since the article about him in the December notes. We will write both of them immediately and hope many of you will do the same.

Bill and Emelyn Rohlffs are on a two-and-a- half-month freighter cruise to the Far East, which we hope they will tell us about. The Rohlffs moved last summer from Portland, Ore., to a retirement village near Seattle; their address is Panorama City, 302 South Parkway, Lacey, Wash. 98503.

We just learned that Tom Ellis' wife Anne died last June. She and Tom had been married 46 years ago.

Joe Chay's annual Christmas card from Taiwan brought the sad news that his son-in-law died of lung cancer. He was a professor at Los Angeles State College. Joe went to Los Angeles for a week and returned to Taiwan, adding that he is "working as usual." Joe owns a starch factory and is ably assisted by his son. Joe will be 80 on July 16.

Sherm Baketel said they left New Castle, N.H., in November, came down on the Auto Train, and are in their usual villa on Manasota Key, Englewood, Fla. They plan to return north April 10.

Frank and Chopin Hankins are now full-time Floridians in Fort Pierce. They have their Franklin Lakes, N.J., home up for sale. Frank said that leaving it after 30 years was heartrending and very strenuous. As Frank said, "The amount of stuff packed into that house was unbelievable."

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