1923

When these notes reach you, our 60th will be onlysix months away—June 13, 14, and 15, 1983.By that time you should have in hand a semi-firmschedule of events, costs, etc. Plan now to be with us.

Dorothy and Mitch May have been through a series of health problems recently but are now on the mend. Dorothy broke a hip last December while the Mays were taking the baths in Hot Springs, Ark. A second operation in August restricts her presently to a walker, but with good prospects of a cane before long.

Mitch gave up golf about five years ago due to arthritis. He says he gets around well and feels fine, however, in spite of a heart attack last March. He retired from Alexander and Alexander in 1980 and now maintains an office with his son at Emett and Chandler, a national insurance broker in New York City.

Mitch ends his good letter on this optimistic note: "Am looking forward to our 60th, and I will do my best to be there. Both of my children are happily married, one living in Tuxedo Park, the other in Amherst, N.H.; six grandchildren, two graduated from Harvard. Too bad."

We have had no news about Frank Bunting since the Golden Review report in 1973. I was therefore very happy to reach him by telephone recently and be brought up to date. After a distinguished World War II record, followed by several years with his own hardware and sporting goods company, Frank retired in 1965. He now bowls two nights a week and spends many of the remaining evenings at his Masonic Lodge in Pawtucket, R.I. Last year he served as commander of the Rhode Island state Masonic organization. His days are kept busy maintaining his property and enjoying what seemed to me from the way he talked to be good health. I was sorry to learn that his wife had died a little over a year ago.

I also talked with George Cooke, whose activities were last reported in the class scrapbook in 1972. He was glad to hear from me and very kindly admitted to reading the ALUMNI MAGAZINE quite thoroughly every month. George retired in 1968 as standards engineer of Collyer Insulated Wire Company of Pawtucket, R.I., now a division of Gulf and Western. A native and life-long resident of Rhode Island, he is married to the former Anne Coggeshall, a Pembroke alumna. George has been in good health, but Anne is only now recovering from a hospital experience of about a year ago.

My final contact was with Bill Strong, whom I found in excellent health and spirits. In fact, he and Vivian were about to take off for Atlantic City, where they vacation occasionally. They also have a summer place in Old Saybrook, Conn. Bill's law firm merged about five years ago with the New York firm of Whitman and Ransom, which has offices in Greenwich, Stamford, and two other Connecticut locations. About four years ago Bill became an "of counsel"member of the firm, which means he may take off the months of January, February, and March to sojourn in Florida and work three days a week the rest of the year. He still serves as a director of Greenwich Federal Savings and Loan Association.

Bill's daughter Barbara is married to John T. Gallagher, a vice president of Putnam, Conn., Trust Company. Last summer John spent a couple of weeks at Dartmouth attending a course in banking. He and Barbara have two children, one at the University of Richmond and the other in high school.

I am sorry to tell you that Bill Kimball's wife Dorothy died of cancer in September at the Shell Point Village Infirmary, located only a few miles from the Kimball home on Sanibel Island. Bill wrote me a few weeks ago of her serious illness, but I am indebted to the Kimballs' good friend and neighbor Nate Whiteside '20 for word of her death. Nate is head agent of the class of 1920 and has often passed along to me news of 1923 classmates.

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