1931

Opening with medical news this month, I'm afraid, but some is good, along with the bad.

Bob Lee reports from Sea Girt, N.J., that he had a hardening-of-the-artery operation on his left leg two years ago at the Lahey Clinic. He had a checkup last December and was told his recovery was beyond their expectations. He's playing tennis again and never gave up golf.

Dorothy Fox writes that Keith has entered the skilled nursing section of the Presbyterian Nursing Home of Central New York at New Hartford with post-tracheotomy problems and other complications. She says he wants to be remembered to everyone, and we certainly send them both our warmest good wishes and sympathy.

Hart Gilchrist, now living at 5931 E. Briarwood Drive, Englewood, Colo., continues to work five days a week in a medium-sized law office and swims and works out seven days a week. Feels just great no wonder!

Al Jones, now at 245 Derrick Street, Uniontown, Pa., is also still practicing law on a regular basis but says "an irascible associate the other day said I ought to be in

HawaiiJohnny Boermeester chips in from Whispering Pines, N.C., with word that while he was attending a meeting of a committee of the Society of Actuaries in Phoenix in January, he talked with the Ed Hanauers and Doug Morrises by phone. The Hanauers love their life in Scottsdale, and dynamic Doug is chairing a committee to celebrate the upcoming 25th anniversary of Sun City. John and Marian are fine.

Not so much traveling news this month, but Lucy Cogswell wrote she was planning to get away from the Hanover snows to the Florida west coast from February 27 to March 29. She was also planning to see the SiLeaches down there. And she remains my best news source!

Thanks to Beany Thorn and Dana Howe, we at last have a definitive report on the 50th anniversary celebration, marking that period of Ed and Peggy Brummer's association with their WoodboUnd Inn, which so many of us have visited at Jaffrey (Rindge), N.H. It took place last November.

Beany wrote: "As oldtimers there of about 30 years, we were invited guests, and it was a most successful weekend. Over a hundred former guests showed up, those who had been there ten years or more. Peg and Ed have turned the Inn over to their son, Jed, and he and his wife, Mary Ellen, do a great job."

Dana contributed a copy of the more-than-200-year history of the inn property that Ed wrote last year and used as a Christmas greeting. It ran to 11 closely-typed pages and was exceedingly interesting and beautifully researched. I have space for only one brief quote how the Brummer regime started:

"Ed Brummer and Jack Bean had been classmates at Dartmouth College . . . After three years and one thing led to another, Jack and Ed . . . looked at an inn resort at Jaffrey that had run out of business and was closed. Jack and Ed got the inn ready to open, Ed with $100 and Jack with less. Money was borr owed from an aunt and Red Rolfe, who had come up to the New York Yankees."

They lost half their $4,000 capital the first year, but the business then turned the corner, and three years later Jack pulled out of innkeeping to go with his family's match business, where he has been ever since.

This is written on deadline because Edna and I just got back from a Lauderdale-transCanal-Mexico-Los Angeles cruise. The only other Dartmouthers aboard were Jack and Kathy Wilhelm '3B. They had the adjoining cabin. It was a great trip in every way.

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