1930

Lee Chilcote, with his wide-ranging correspondence, really should be your class secretary, but since he isn't and I am, I'm lucky to be one of his occasional correspondents. Lee also, along with AveGould, Gene Magenau, and Ted Wolf, qualifies as one of the class athletes. In early February he attended Sun Valley's 50th anniversary and the annual reunion of the Sun Valley Ski Club, which Lee has attended more than 30 times since 1947. More than 400 attended the largest reunion ever. In a two-week stay Lee skied almost every day, including one two-and- a-half-mile schuss from the 9,100-foot summit of Mount Baldy. Not bad, recalling Lee's history of heart surgery, and a broken leg, or something, on an African safari. Kay sat this one out, recovering from a long bout with viral pneumonia. Pat Weaver, Lee says, was expected but didn't make it which reminds me of our annual 1978-1982 efforts to collect the elusive Pat for a 1978 Class of '30 Award.

In late February Pete Callaway spent a week with the Chilcotes in (then) sunny Florida, perhaps missing some of the flooding in his not-so-sunny Napa. Together they drove over to Naples, visited the newlyweds, Jim and Elva Irwin, stayed overnight with Cliff and MarianVogt, making a foursome of Psi U roommates, and then completed a 1930 minireunion by having dinner with Ev andDot Low.

While today's paper (March 9) reports zero temperatures in the East, Lee mentions Florida's beautiful weather, which has stimulated a surge of golfing, and he hopes that Green Valley is doing as well. It is. Based on Tucson Weather Service reports, we had the warmest January in history, and late in February we exceeded former record highs on six consecutive days, one of them by six degrees with a 92.

Speaking of Pat, as we were, on February 28 NBC's "Entertainment Tonight" marked what must have been the 30th anniversary of the "Today Show" and, fittingly, gave us a glirpipse of its originator, Pat Weaver, in the flesh. Three days later either NBC or our local Channel 4 got its tapes mixed up and reran the February 28 "Entertainment Tonight," so the Tucson area was treated to a second look at our illustrious but unassuming classmate.

Thanks again to Lee Chilcote, I can report that Bob and Louise Keene are alive and well in their Mexican aerie, which felt none of the devastating Mexico City earthquake. Bob speaks of the cold winter there, in spite of their being at least 1,100 miles farther south than Tucson. He writes, "Having recently installed a disk for satellite TV reception, I'm not sure that we really are glad to know all that's going on everywhere."

A while back I mentioned a feature article on Ojai that appeared on the front page of the Arizona Sunday Star's Travel section. Now I know that the Star gets its travel ideas from the class of '30. It recently had a long write-up on Woodstock, Vt., with special attention to the Woodstock Inn and a picture of the Inn. Sounds very inviting, and I hope to see you all there on October 17. A free copy of the article to anyone who requests it - and gives me some news.

In the meantime, give heed to the fast approaching date of June 30, when this year's Alumni Fund campaign Comes to a close. Last year, with Ave Raube's underwriting of AT&T, you gave 100 percent, equaling a record set only by the class of 1923. Do it again this year, and we'll be the first class ever to have done it twice. So, let there be no LYBUNTs among us!

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