1928

At this point I should thank you for the recent notes and cards received in appreciation for my birthday cards. I've been sending them for 25 years, hoping to get a laugh and perhaps some news or comment.

Charley Proctor and Mary had a fine Christmas in Santa Cruz, Calif., with daughter Peggy, her husband, Howard, their son, Ryan, Howard's two daughters from his first marriage, and Charley's other daughter, Heidi Cary '85, son Scott, and husband Jerry Pesman. Charley said, "Mary and I are getting along okay, but I am slower and slower at everything." Who isn't these days?

John and Peggy Phillips are vacationing at their favorite place, St. Croix, from January 13 to February 7. Bruce andThelma Lewis expected to celebrate Bruce's 80th birthday quietly, but Bruce's son, Ralph, threw a surprise party with many of their children and grandchildren, plus some close friends in the area. There were 30 in all, in a private dining room at the Holiday Inn in Palm Beach Gardens. Bruce was presented with an album containing pictures from way back, plus letters from friends and all 12 grandchildren.

Curly Prosser spent two weeks in Florida over the holidays with his only sister.

Jack and Nancy Heston have sold their home in Bryn Mawr and moved to Apartment CH-118, Dun woody Village, Newt own Square, PA 19073.

Hank Buchtel writes "In my 60s, I used to shovel snow off the roof in Colorado. In my 70s I quit that but still did some roof work, but now since I am 80, I stay on the ground. Discretion is still the better part of valor."

"It's sure great to be 80 I mean and still upright/' wrote Bill Morton.

Follow-up from last month's report of Rick Rickenbaugh's heart attack is the good news that he is spending an hour or so a day at his office, and is planning, with our class officers, the next meeting of the executive committee in Norwich, Vt., on the first weekend of May.

Craig and Eleanor Haines were invited to the launching of a new submarine on December 13, 1986 but decided that it was too cold the temperature was 20 and strong winds brought it down to zero. Their son Craig Jr. '5B is director of procurement at Electric Boat. Craig and Eleanor had their three children, plus grandchildren, with them at Christmas.

Jack Cook writes that his and Marjorie's most recent trips were to Alaska, Nevada, and Florida. Jack went to the Mayo Clinic for a second opinion on his lungs and while there had a stroke, which paralyzed his right leg. Back in Milwaukee he was admitted to the hospital and later transferred to a good nursing care center, where he's undergoing physical therapy on his leg.

We are sorry to have to report the deaths of eight classmates since our last column: Buck Serrell, November 25, 1986; Lew Hutcheson, December 2, 1986; Geoffrey Glendinning, December 5, 1986; EvFields, December 7, 1986; George Boughton, December 26, 1986; Eldred Patch, January 1; Dick Brooks, December 29, 1986; and Don Benjamin, January 19, 1986. Obituaries will follow.

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