1927

The leadoff item this month is our public apology for an inexcusable boo boo in our May column. It was Gordon Hope and not Gordon Smith who sent us the postcard summarizing his 1983 activities. Our sincerest apologies both to Hopie and to Smitty's widow Virginia.

During the summer we've received many communications from classmates. We'd like to report these in full, but space restrictions permit only summaries of some of them. Also during the summer, as time marched on, we welcomed the following to 1927's "Made it to 80 Club": Francis Bruguiere, William Fryberger, Bradley Fuller, George Kish, Frederick Kortlucke, Laurence Jones, JohnMunro, Hawley Patten, Frank Strong, and Curtis Wright.

When Lee Gore wrote in May, the 1984 golf season had just opened in ogdensburg, Va. Always the optimist, Lee looks forward to 37 more haircuts before our 60th reunion in 1987 but allows that these are not his every-tendays trims, even though his hair still grows faster than he realized.

Dick Swartzbaugh broke a long silence with his card from Toledo, Ohio. He is still practicing law 53 years after Harvard Law School and 46 years after his marriage. He spent the month of March in Naples, Fla., where he had a good visit with Al Wellman.

We were delighted, also, to hear from Elmer Zimmerman. For some time, he and Doris have been residents of Winter Park, Fla., where they have an apartment facing west on a lake. Each summer they come north for a few weeks to visit relatives in Buffalo, N.Y., and regret that they never seem to be able to make the dates coincide with fall reunions.

Jack and Jackie Thees forsook their winter home in Pompano Beach, Fla., in May for their annual trek to Texas and Louisiana to visit their two sons and their respective families.

Congratulations and best wishes go out to Paul and Betty Hannah, who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on May 29 with more than 100 relatives and friends at the Braeburn Country Club in Newton, Mass.

To celebrate their 50th in September, Bill and Jeannette Mackay were looking forward to taking a trip in July and August to the Scandinavian countries.

Dick and Peg Fox normally lead a quiet life in Sarasota, Fla., but they were planning a trip north during the summer to visit their daughter Drusilla and Dick's brother, Bob '33, both of whom have summer places in Chatham, Mass., on Cape Cod.

Last March, the Boston papers were full of news and pictures of the large Maltese freighter Eldie which was beached during a storm on Nauset Beach near Orleans, Mass. In sending us a color picture of the rescue effort, which involved numerous other boats over several days, Don Megathlin wrote that he was one of the million, more or less, onlookers who witnessed the exciting rescue.

When Curt Wright last wrote in June, he and Mary were about to depart for La Casa Italiana in Rochester, N.Y., to take part in an all-Italian language program under the elderhostel auspices at Nazareth College. They were tackling this as a warm-up for another go at the ALPS program in Hanover in July. In the accompanying snapshot Curt is shown taking part in a recent charitable road race in which he, at the age of 80, earned the honor of being the oldest participant.

We are sorry to have to conclude with the news of the deaths of the following classmates: Bernard Barde on February 26, WilburMunnecke on April 24, Arthur Keleher on May 2, Kenneth Murray on May 13, and Philip Hunt on May 26. Philip Hunt was known to us in college as William French, and we do not know when he changed his name to Hunt.

Curt Wright '27 took part in a 1000-meter run tobenefit the Ambulance Association of Ambler, Pa.,last April.

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