1928
John and Peggy Phillips took their annual St. Croix vacation, February 5-22.
The Dartmouth Club of Southwest Florida had a luncheon December 15 in Naples. Paul and Jane Cutler came down from Sanibel Island and joined G. I. and Marion Davis for the occasion. No news about when the Makepeaces, Mortons, Chicks, and other Naples snowbirds will arrive.
Howie and Caroline Bush have no plans to seek warmer climes. Howie writes at Christmastime: "After two years spent in Marion all winter we have found it very pleasant if weather is bad, we stay in and add another log to the fireplace and catch up on reading. I'm still plugging along; played a lot of golf and have put in large garden-tobe for winter under a blanket of winter rye. Now cutting oak and maple for 1985-86 winter fireplace wood. Split last year's crop of wood for fireplace this winter."
After years of no news from Harry Harwood, we had a pleasant phone conversation. He had just returned to his home in Bloomington, I11., after spending the holidays with his son Harry and family in Houston. He also visits his other son, Dick '68, a lawyer in Colorado Springs, Colo. His wife, Jean, died in 1972. His hobbies are birdwatching in the conservation areas in Texas, Arizona, and Colorado and playing golf. The Makepeaces are also ardent birdwatchers do any more '2Bers have that hobby?
Jack and Mildred Zanger's card said Jack reached 80 in November, still plays golf to a 12 handicap, has a garden, and paints in oil (like our professional artist, Jim Montague, and semi-pro Mitch Mitchell. Any more '28 artists?). The Zangers spend the winters in Florida.
Our December notes mentioned that KarlaRubin had had a severe heart attack in June 1983 in Germany while returning from an annual trip to Europe. Rube rented an apartment for them in Hamburg, where Karla had relatives, and they waited for the doctors to approve Karla's trip home. I called Rube's brother, Sid '31, at his home in New York City on January 13 and learned that Karla died January 1 in Hamburg. Her body was cremated, and Rube returned to New York and then to Boca Raton.
Other sad news to be reported are the deaths of Bun Goodrich on November 20, Harry Stone on December 12, and Bill Lary, our former class agent, on January 2.
The class officers have been trying for months to compile a list of '28 Dartmouth grandchildren. By using incomplete lists in my notes and in Art Kneerim's "'28 Campaigner," we reached a total of 20 (14 undergraduates), but a note from SamMagavern says he has two granddaughters to add to the list: Mary '83 and Lydia '86. Their father is William J. Magavern II '56, a partner in Sam's Buffalo law firm. Sam's son, Jim '55, is also a member of the same firm. Will you grandparents write to make sure our list is complete, and please write me as soon as members of the class of 1989 turn up it's time to hear about early acceptances now, plus other acceptances in April or May!
Jack Herpel had a stroke early in December, while he was in the kitchen at home. He was taken to the Morristown Memorial Hospital and was coming along fine, until he tried to get out of bed without help and fell and hit his head, resulting in damage to his sight. After several weeks of therapy, he has recovered and is home again, with no impairment.
We asked Lane Dwinell about travel plans he and Betty are taking a motor trip through the south, a spring trip to England and Western Europe, and a cruise to the Greek Islands with a Dartmouth College group in September.
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