1929

Merry Christmas, written to beat a November 1 deadline!

Jack Hubbard is not able to answer all your warmly-welcomed notes. As always, he passes them along for Harry and me to share. We talked lately with a most enthusiastic alumna of one of Bob Lyle's schools. Her love and respect are a fine tribute to Bob and his work. Henry and Alice Sharpe's oldest granddaughter is Dartmouth '87. Henry says, "With that event our lives brightened considerably."

Charlie and Betty Shaffer are back from Europe, "in reasonably good health and remarkably good spirits." Heinie Richardson reports both his breath and his drives are getting shorter. Phil Fitzpatrick, Ken Macnair,Joe Ruff, Frank Sullivan, and Nick Vincent plan to make the Fifty-and-Fifth in 1984 (June 11-13). Be on the list.

Bob Ramage says '29ers at the Army game were John Cornehlsen, Bernie Burnham, MoHeath, and Bob's Statia. We who keep track of '29 can never bless Bob enough for that great 25th yearbook. At the Harvard game we saw Squeek and Loretta Redding, Bill Magenau, Earl Lister, and Nick Panoras, who's missed only one Harvard game since 1923! Any competition? There were probably others seated in the sponsors' section. Write Dick Black or me if you're interested in that good work for all Dartmouth athletics.

Al Floyd is still working with a few accounts but admits he's about to quit. He and his gal have had several hospital stays this year. Russ Goudy mentions surgical experience and adds, "It'll be some time before I regrow the wings that are a natural appendage to my heels." He's trying for Hanover in June. Harris Huston is dedicating himself to cures for this old-age stuff, working with witch hazel and arnica externally and Gibson's and bourbon internally. Suggestions welcomed.

Dr. Cornehlsen promotes a monthly Dartmouth luncheon at the New York Yale Club. Rusty Ayers and Harry Baehr have spoken to the group. John's phone is 212/725-9144. The five '29ers at the Cape Cod October meeting were fewer than usual. They're great meetings.

Ed Abbott married Beverly Grant last February. He's now curator of the Big Bear (Calif.) Valley Historical Society, and his fine report will grace a newsletter. Dr. Rick Diack remarks on the rigors, not vigors, of old age, then vigorously tells of promoting his cardiac resuscitator and his work with the Nature Conservancy. He quotes from the Living Wilderness magazine that the inevitable compromise with Mother Nature comes out of nature never out of man and his works, then realizes it was written by our own Dan Luten.Bob Hazzard has cut down on his tax business and moved to Tyson, Md., and is now hooked on SCORE, having just checked in his 27th client.

Your scribe is still preaching: The Surgeon General warns about our cancers While Helms speaks out to subsidize his voters. Unless we find some better kinds of answers, Our common sense is measured in iotas. (New England rhyme.)

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