1925

Lyn and Bobby White divide their time in the winter between Marblehead Neck and North Conway, N.H. Besides being 1925 special events chairman, he keeps busy as secretary of the Society of Colonial Wars and treasurer of the Neck Association.

Fanny S. Chipman, widow of Norris, has sold her apartment in Gstaad, Switzerland, and moved back to Paris. She writes: "Claudette, my daughter, who was divorced from her first husband, married again in December 1981 to a Swiss who directs hotels. They have a lovely baby, Samantha, and are presently in Houston, Tex., at Stouffer's Greenway Plaza. My two older grandchildren are living with their father this year in Vienna and attend the excellent French lycee there."

Nort Canfield says: "We are getting well settled in Florida. My new position with the Miami Hearing and Speech Center has been very satisfactory and we are making plans to be here most of the year. The Coconut Grove area of Miami is an attractive place to live and my lovely wife is finding her art interest more than expected. We have not found a final house yet but we are now searching in earnest, now that the initial pains of the move are behind us. Hope to see some of the 1925 class now that we are better able to move around and get our bearings in other parts of the state. Always read the news of the class with interest so keep on sending in personal notes." (The secretary hopes more of you will follow this good example.)

Dick Colton wrote in December from San Francisco: "Howell and I are spending a few weeks in our condo here. In March we will join the Alumni College voyage to the Isles of the Java Sea (about Indonesia)."

Drue Garrod ofMilford, N.H., says: "I had to have my appendix out in October and it and November seem to have gotten lost. My next goal is my 80th in March."

In recent months we have lost three widows of classmates Pauline Rhoades, Emily Peterson, and Gladys Meginnity.

In January, the ninth annual meeting of Citizen Inflation Fighters Inc. was held in Naples, Fla., and Bob Weinig, one of the founders in 1974, was the keynote speaker. The organization now has over 500 members and a mailing list reaching more than 5,000 throughout the country.

Walter Becker was among a number of alumni present at the wedding in Cleveland last fall of Thornton May '79.

Betty and Mac Shepard of Putnam, Conn., do not stay there very long at a time. Here is an account of their current travels: "We spent three weeks in September in China and visited eight cities Peking, Xian, Chendu, Chungking, Wuhan, Guilin, Hangchow, and Shanghai. We traveled more than 3,500 miles in China by plane, train, boat, and bus. We walked at least 300 or 400 feet up and down stairs daily, and thrived on it. All the great, well-known monuments were all anyone could want the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, the tomb in Xian. But what really interested us most was modern China. We saw thousands of Chinese and communicated with hundreds. Not that they could speak English, but there are other ways of com- municating. They love to show off their children. Peking is a city of bicycles. The hotels were excellent. We like Chinese food and have never had any as good. Chopsticks are easy, though we had been urged to bring knives and forks, but never used them.

"Our trip was organized by a Unitarian group and was sponsored by 'Radio Peking,' which supplied us with an excellent Englishspeaking guide. The city we liked best was Guilin, where the steep hills, so famous in Chinese paintings, became real.

"Mac and I are inveterate travelers. Late in March we go to Green Valley in Arizona to visit Hal and Carol Stevens, who have a house there. In May we hope to take a medical trip to central Russia, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, also Moscow and Leningrad, where we have been before."

P.O. Box 142 China, Maine 04926