1927

Hello again: Our kudo for this month goes to Ed and Lillian Redcay. In June they were uniquely honored when the trustees of the University of New York named the Plattsburgh State's Faculty Office and Administration Building for them in recognition of their financial generosity and their long and distinguished careers at the university. Congratulations to them both. You will recall that in addition to teaching for 36 years, Ed was chairman of numerous committees and departments and at one time served as acting president of the college. Lillian also taught there for 17 years and earned national and international recognition during the thirties for a series of films on marriage and family living produced by McGraw Hill Book Company.

We don't have any job promotions, transfers, or industrial accomplishments to report, as do most of the younger classes, since most of us, except the lawyers and doctors, have long since retired. However, we are well into the era of 50th wedding anniversaries. Don and Ruth Megathlin celebrated theirs last August with a gathering of relatives, friends, and neighbors at the Dennis Playhouse in Dennis, Mass. Another 50th was celebrated in September when Doc and Vera Harvey planned a trip to the Orient after a fitting send-off from their home in Sarasota, Fla., by their son, daughter, and eight grandchildren.

To properly recognize his 80th birthday in July, Brad Fuller had the help of 67 members of his family who assembled in Newburyport, Mass., for an outdoor pool party. Brad reported that the weather was perfect and that the celebrants included children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and assorted in-laws.

Brugy Brugierre is another recently-turned-octogenarian. He didn't say how he celebrated but did write that he felt not only honored but also extremely lucky to be a member of the Made-it-to-80 Club. Which reminds us that during October he was joined in that club by the following: Bennett Bell, Harry Benson, Reeve Brokaw, Bob Congdon, Philip French, Bill Starr, and Ted Swanson.

Fritz Kortkucke interestingly acknowledged his 80th birthday card by writing that at the spring meeting of the Northeastern Dartmouth Club he and Paul O'Connell were among those presented with the College's Olympic medals, which are a green 'D' surrounded by a gold wreath and a picture of the gym team which won the Eastern Collegiate championship in 1927. Paul was manager and Fritz was captain of the team. The affair was part of the "Wearers of the Green" celebration honoring Dartmouth athletes of prior years.

Chuck Brewster, as usual, spent the summer in Georgetown, Maine. While there, he found time to drop over to Portsmouth, N.H., for a visit with Wendall Lamson.

Our vacation mailbag also contained a letter from John Rintels in Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard. John has sold his Florida house and, in September, will move to a retirement community called Courtney Springs on Merritt Island, Fla. After getting settled in the new home, John and Dot hope to take off for California to visit two sons, two grandsons, and one great-grandchild now in process.

Merritt Joslyn is another faithful replier to the class birthday cards. At the immature age of only 79, he optimistically wrote that if his health continues as well as at present, he doesn't anticipate any difficulty in making it to 80 next year. He and his wife are making another trip to Europe in September and will return to Washington, D.C., on the Concorde.

We have an address change for John Upham's widow, Prudence, who has moved from Boston to 80 Pleasant Street, Brookline, MA 02146.

It is with deep regret that we report the receipt, just as we are going to press, of word of the death of Albert Mcdonald on August 23. In his passing the class has lost one of its most loyal and ardent supporters.

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