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Our president, Milton Aronowitz, has been busy, not only carrying on his practice as a physician but also trying to raise our position in the Alumni Fund. All of us not under the grasp of Medicaid should give him a hand. And if there is any money left, John Remsen would like it for his memorial fund.

Four years ago, my wife moved into a nurs- ing home in Manchester. Then on January 26 this year, our grandson called to say, "Gram has gone." At her service, the weather was ideal, the flowers were profuse, the minister said just the right things, and people came from near and far to pay tribute to a lovely lady.

During April, I found myself residing in three different places. On April 9, I got up at home and could hardly breathe. At the hospital emergency ward, x-rays showed that my lungs were chock full of liquid. I stayed for ten days in the hospital. My third residence was at the Hoodkroft Convalescent Center. I had called on my wife weekly for four years in her nursing home, and I learned less about nursing homes than I did in one day at Hoodkroft. The soul of a nursing home is its care. It gives me a thrill to watch those young candy-stripers and nurses aides march down the corridors heads high, self-assured, and dedicated to the work at hand.

I recently received a post card from Dorothy Rice that said, "I am still well and have just come back from staying in an apartment/hotel in Torremolinos, Spain, with an AARP group for six weeks. I left New York March 10 with my sister, Eunice Berg, who has been with me to three reunions. She lives in Florida, but will be back by the middle of June to help me drive to my summer place in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where we will stay three months. My best to you and all the class."

Our two Phi Beta Kappas that are left, Elmer Tucker and George Watts, are still active at age 90. Elmer drives his own car, and George seems to be absolutely untiring.

My last item is about a textbook on wood technology that I received as a present. McGraw-Hill reserved one page entirely for this item: "Dedicated to the late H. P. Brown and to C. C. Forsaith, whose pioneering work helped to elevate wood technology to the status of a science and whose enthusiasm for a scien- tific approach to this subject was an inspiration to their students and associates."

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