1924

I have received a long and interesting letter from Lee Ramsdell. He has not used his old nickname of "Speck" since college days. Retired since 1971 and living in Nantucket, he describes his home as a lovely spot with "birds, small deer you do not see, pheasants, ducks, whippoorwills, and many miscellaneous." Lee is a retired advertising man who sold his very successful agency to a capable successor with every expectation of a long and lucrative payoff. Just as Lee was beginning to recover from his first heart attack, the purchaser was killed in a plane accident. There was nobody left who could run the business and Lee's health was not such that he could take over himself. He says that this dropped him out of the millionaire class. A second heart attack was survived in 1981 and now he wears a pacemaker, which is apparently successful as he talks about his attempts to build a split-rail fence and to "redo small forests."

Lee is also a genealogist and a descendant of "John Ramsdell who arrived in New England in 1630 to help Governor Winthrop." Quite likely this was to help in driving Roger Williams out of' Massachusetts so that he could found the superior colony of Rhode Island. Two of Lee's three sons graduated from Tuck School.

I wrote 15 classmates two weeks ago asking for news, and I am still hoping to hear from some of the remaining 14 for a future issue.

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