1931

The best news I have to offer is that Lucy Cogswell has finished her three months on crutches and now is walking once more. She plans to use her newly-gained mobility to visit family and friends in Arizona and Florida.

Ilona and Jack Weisert, still with the diplomatic service in Paris, took a grand self-operated tour of Stuttgart, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, the Tyrolean Alps, and the Black Forest last summer. I wish I had the space to quote Jack's entire letter. In West Germany there are no speed limits on the autobahns and "the Mercedes and BMWs whizzed by us at 120 to 140 miles per hour."

The closest return to the earth of Halley's comet is predicted by Charles O'Neill to be in 1986. He says he expects to see the comet only once more. After 1986 its next visit is 2061.

Bill and Betty Steck celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary in November; they plan to get to Northampton in May for Betty's 50th reunion.

Making a fast trip through Hanover in September, Frank Pope "saw a lot of kids lugging books and belongings and looking a lot more decorative than we looked 50-odd years ago." Could it be the female element? Or just the absence of those filthy, stiff corduroy pants?

John Feltner is still skiing; last year he was one of 1,000 who entered the 55-kilometer race at Chautauqua, N.Y., and the 50-kilometer at Tug Hill. Now he is welcoming the snow squalls and freezing temperatures once more, skis at the ready.

I hereby nominate Red Gristede as a standby candidate for class secretary or class newsletter editor. He's been sending me the house organ he edits, for the Gristede Brothers Retirees Society. They're a fired-up bunch, all right, and it looks like a lot of the heat emanates from the Red Baron himself.

Cap Palmer '23 sent a note from Courtney Anderson which deserves some attention: "After retirement I visited Sweden and saw my father's home which our family has occupied since 1675, and still does. ... I spend a lot of time translating from the Swedish material about my family and our part of Sweden. . . . Our son is now professor at Brown University (neurophysiology)."

Dr. Oliver S. Hayward, retired from the United States Public Health Service, was presented with the 1982 Olin Marine Safety Award in New York City. He was selected as the winner by a group of boating editors from nominations received from throughout the United States. He's a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 93 and resides in Alameda, Calif.

The Smithsonian Institution has just published Plains Indian Studies, a volume in honor of John C. Ewers and Waldo R. Wedet, associates at the Smithsonian. Included is a tribute to Dr. Ewers, "the nation's foremost scholar on the ethnology of the Northern Plains and the artists of the Old West."

Patsy and Bill Walsh are back in Costa Rica once more, for a few weeks. They went beaching at Marco Antonio Park, where Trudy and I spent some time last winter. Bill says they love Costa Rica more than ever.

Ed Hanauer says he's just returned from a trip to the Orient. Come on, Ed, part with a few details!

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