1934

A recent column asked whether Ted Germann, with 12 grandtykes notched on his belt, might have won the role of marshall for the 1934 parade of grandfathers. Ted's candidacy has been successfully challenged. A letter from John Torinus, on his letterhead as editor of the Appleton, Wise., Post Crescent, makes it known that his 13th grandchild was born to Mark and Maryclaire Torinus on October 28, 1980. Adds J. 8., "Mark is Dartmouth '75, and young Nathan is already signed up."

"Re your query about Ed Luedke," J. B. continues, "he was my roommate in Hitchcock our first two years, but I have completely lost track of him. I will attempt, through mutual friends in Milwaukee, to establish a contact, and will let you know."

It does pay to ask questions, doesn't it? So let's give the "What's new, long-lost one?" department another twirl. Bob Warner, are you still a Wilton, Conn., banker, or have they given you your gold watch? A lot of bank officers I know are between 65 and 70 and still active. Mordecai Mersel, old farmers never stop farming, do they? And Dave Easton, the same goes for old lawyers, doesn't it? Except for NickNanos, who didn't even wait till he was 60. JoeSlechta, are you still a professor of French at the University of North Carolina? Hubie Johnson, vice president of J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia publishers? And finally, DaveHawes, professor of speech and theater at Indiana University?

We asked John Lynch recently how he was enjoying South Carolina and elicited a lively response. Since 1979 John's been a part-time consultant for the Isle of Palms Beach and Racquet Club, which is developing the east end of that South Carolina island. Back in 1967 he had been on the faculty of Suffolk University Law School, near Boston, as law librarian. Then in 1976 he was diagnosed as having asthma and emphysema, and he moved to South Carolina. "My only regret about leaving Boston was leaving the school; I really enjoyed my work there."

Only by continuing to quote verbatim can we come within a mile of the Lynch Irish wit that used to grind like sand between the teeth of Professor Harold Bruce in poli sci class. "Over the past dozen years I've been in contact with only three other '34's: Ike Powers before his untimely passing, Bill Reid, and Bob Rodman. Ike was an adjunct professor at Suffolk. His going was a shocker, but with Bill and Bob still on the scene I still have two places to hang my hat. Bill should have been superintendent of the Boston school system, but then had he been, he'd now most likely be a candidate for canonization. And while passing out bouquets and speaking the truth as well, Bob's three-volume magnum opus, Massachusetts Pleading and PracticeForm, is indispensable for any practicing attorney in the Commonwealth. P.S. There should also be a plug for Bill Scherman's newsletter." Hear, hear!

Dottie Morton's new address is Lost Tree Village, 12131 Surrey Lane, North Palm Beach, Fla. 33408.

A mouth-watering postcard from Lois andMoe Frankel features the atavistic pleasures of Mallorca, the Frankel's launching point to the loveliness of Spain's Costa del Sol, Granada, Seville, Cordoba, and Madrid.

Two more zealous voyagers, Nancy and AndyDonaldson, had just (in March) returned to Cincinnati from a trip to the Cook Islands, New Zealand and Australia. They then planned to leave the following week for Naples, Fla., where , they would see Dick Houck. Naples is the place I misread and consequently misreported a year ago as "Minneapolis," thereby subjecting Houck to the ire of his Twin City friends, with whom of course he hadn't got in touch, because it was not "Mpls" he went to, at all, it was "Npls."

Brent Barker's wife Wilma asked Ed Brown to cancel their subscription to the ALUMNIMAGAZINE for an unhappy reason. Wilma writes, "Besides his four heart attacks in three years, and diabetes, Brent had a stroke a year ago and lost his speech. He receives Talking Books, as he does not read. [Our classmate Alan Hewitt has narrated more than 200 of the Talking Books, Wilma.] Both of us being on Social Security, we must cut our expenses where possible." Here is a reminder we are pleased to write. The class executive committee elected some years ago to go on the "100 per cent plan," which sends the ALUMNI MAGAZINE to everyone in the class if we have at least 60 per cent participation in dues. Which we do have. Naturally, the MAGAZINE is not pressed on someone who really doesn't want it, but it's never canceled for purely financial reasons.

John Anderson, Cleveland Heights realtor, has become the Greater Cleveland representative of Island Real Estate, a leading real estate firm on Sanibel and Captiva Islands off the west coast of Florida. This places John in close harmony with Dick Campen, who put together a book of his own photographs, Sanibel andCaptiva. . . Enchanting Islands, and Bill Scherman, whose cousin Katherine Scherman Rosin wrote a book about Sanibel in her series on the world's "most fascinating islands."

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