1944

Lovejoy Hill Cornish Flat, NH 03746

Last month we mentioned nice things happening to class secretaries and nothing nicer could have happened this month than to have had Harry "The Rock" Davidson drive into town, direct from the heart of downtown Dallas, Tex. Gladness touched with sadness: his wife Dottie died two years ago after a long siege of emphysema. Harry says it isn't easy, but he's coping with bachelorhood and hopes to go back to a law practice. A bunch of Hanover mainstreeters got together to wine and dine The Rock (one of the College's great boxers): his old roommate, Jim Browning, and wife Lu, two McLaughrys, two Swampy Marshes, two Hiers, and Jack Corroon, who was summering out of New York City with wife Rosemary and assorted kids at nearby Quechee, Vt.

Another nice happening: Jim and Liz Elliott retired in March 1986 from life in the Washington, D.C.-Virginia area (National Paint and Coatings Association) and have been busy since building a house, "from scratch," designed by Liz, on three acres on Lake Sunapee, just down the road from Hanover. "Retirement is splendid," says Jim. "We now own all 24 hours of every day."

We also had an eye-opening chat with ophthalmologist Charlie Regan, who has just moved back to Wellesley, Mass., after a one-and-a-half-year "experiment" living in Lajolla, Calif. "We found that we missed old friends and haunts in Massachusetts," he said. "We didn't much care for eastern winters, but neither could we adapt to western climates. So we decided to come back home." Charlie is back at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, but "out of administration and taking some time off and trying to get the golf game within range."

Harry Grieger is another fellow with decisions as to climate. He and Ginny have thrice moved between New Hampshire- Vermont and Florida looking for that perfect climate, and the latest is a move from Norwich, Vt., down to North Palm Beach, Fla. Their assorted kids also range north and south of the Mason-Dixon.

Jerry and Marlene Brody were featured in the July issue of The Blood-Horse Magazine, where it was noted that they were selling their prize-winning Angus cattle this summer to concentrate on raising race horses. The Brodys, who own Gallagher's Bar in Manhattan and the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, raise thoroughbreds on their 420-acre farm, also called Gallagher's, in New York State's Hudson Valley, southeast of Albany. But they're just as liable to be on the road as down on the farm, checking on horses they own and race in England and France.

And guess what, the new editor of all this immortal prose, the fellow looking over our shoulders and correcting our mistaken grammar, is Bob Nutt '49, brother of DaveNutt. Bob has given up NY City for the pleasures of New England, while Dave continues to commute from Plainfield, N.J., into New York, where he still draws a salary from the U.S. Trust Company. Dave's and Grace's daughter Katie was married this past July, the fourth of their five kids to take the vows. The Nutts have four grandchildren.

That's it. Blessings.