1928

While enjoying our annual spring vacation in the last week of March in Hollywood, Fla., (eight adults and six small children), I found time to dash over to Fort Lauderdale for a brief visit with Red Fauntleroy at his condo. When I mentioned grandchildren, Red said he has 17 "blood" grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, which must be a record number for a '28er.

Red and John Phillips will have attended the Boston alumni dinner April 27. It is called "The Wearers of the Green" because all members of Dartmouth championship teams have been invited, as well as Olympians, national champions, captains of varsity teams, all-Americans, and national Hall-of-Famers. (Charley Proctor is in the National Ski Hall of Fame. Myles Lane is in both the football and the hockey Halls of Fame and is the only athlete ever to receive that double honor other than Hobey Baker, Princeton '13.) It will be quite a bash - one of those "once-in-a-life-time" affairs. The only other '28er I've heard from who was planning to go was Jerry Sass, tennis captain, who was flying in from Los Angeles.

Unfortunately Myles was not able to attend. I just heard from his wife Margaret that Myles's physical condition is such that he is now in a nursing home in New York. Margaret takes a hot lunch to him every day so as to be able to sit and chat if he's up to it. Margaret gave me permission to publish his address so that classmates and friends could send him postcards from time to time; in fact she thought it would be wonderful. Here it is: Hon. Myles J. Lane, Mary Manning Walsh Home, Room 317, 1339 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021.

Elly Jones wrote that "Nellie and I made a trip from Cave Creek to Tucson to see Liz Stone, Ted's widow. Her home is near Hodand Vivian Carver's so we stopped to say hello. Hod has lost (intentionally) quite a few pounds since we last saw him. They are selling their beautiful home and moving to a smaller place so they won't have so much to take care of. Nellie and I hope to make the mini-reunion next fall and to visit our daughter and family in New Canaan, Conn., on the same trip."

I called Howie Bush and learned that he and Carrie are fine but did not go south this winter because he is too busy. He retired 21 years ago as vice president of a Boston insurance company and was immediately drafted to serve four years with distinction as '28 head class agent. After years of leisure, he finds himself much sought-after as an unbiased consultant in the Johns-Manville case; he just finished an 85-page deposition. Suits against J-M total more than $4 billion.

Jack Kenerson said there were seven at the '28 table at the Dartmouth alumni dinner on March 7 in Tucson at which President Mc-Laughlin spoke. Present were Jack and Fran, Hank Buchtel, Jim and Cynthia McConnon, and Gayle and Carmen Leslie. Jim had a lot to do with arranging the dinner and greeting the 92 alumni. The Kenersons were leaving on April 13 with a group of golfers for a twoweek tour of Hawaii to play the best courses in the islands. Jack said they have bought a small house near the golf course in Green Valley and plan to stretch their usual threemonth vacation from October 15 to the end of April next year.

I had a nice visit on the telephone with Macand Esther MacEachran at their home in Manitowoc, Wise. Their son John '70, who has an M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School, is in family practice in Peterborough, N.H. They mentioned that he drove them up to Hanover for the 55th reunion.

John Phillips will attend the Alumni Council meetings in May. John was elected to the council at our 55th and is a member of the Alumni Fund committee.

Sarasotans George Klein and Don Solis reported that the John Nixons checked in on March 1, but they missed regular snowbirds Ralph Church, Hammie Hammesfahr, and Wes Wood this year.

Red and Fonty Sanborn took their annual trip to Florida for birding, sunning, and sightseeing. Unfortunately they had been there one week when the oranges froze in the 18-degree nights. They found the two days at the Epcot Center exhibits very worthwhile.

We are sorry to have to pass on word of the death of Johnny Waters on March 18.

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