1944

A lovely weekend at the Tanglewood, Mass., music festival took us past Budd Welsh's Aspen Motel in Manchester Center, Vt. The Welshes added a new wing, but Budd and Carol are spending more and more time in the warmer climes of North Carolina, leaving the running of the place to a couple of their children. But the Aspen Motel is still a dandy spot to stay and inhale some of those gorgeous views.

We also touched down at a farther Aspen, namely Colorado, where Bill and BarbaraMcElnea have a second house from which they ski in the winter and ride horses in the summer, with spells betwixt at their permanent home outside of Los Angeles. A highlight was a dinner for eight ("Please, James"), which included neighbors Ja andMarty Densmore and Barbara and JackSnobble. And not easy to coordinate, because Ja is in and out to everywhere in his new photography career, and Jack was off riding cowboy, herding 1,000 head of cattle in the Lake Powell region of southeast Utah.

But Jack was home long enough to give us a tour of his place in Carbondale. It's a wildlife sanctuary: Ponds, streams, birds, beavers, flowers, peacocks, you name it. Henry Thoreau, move over.

A note from Merle Hagen in Arundel, England, where he .taught his "swan song" course in business administration at the Arundel campus of New England College. Merle says he and Emmy Lou spent a weekend in London with Bob and Helen Gifford, who are happily retired in the land of Big Ben.

The Hagens have bought a place in Flori da—"across the bridge from Fort Myers in Cape Coral and on a golf course" but they will keep roots in Henniker, N.H. Merle says that he is also researching a book on the martini cocktail and is looking for favorite martini jokes and stories. If you have one, send it to Merle.

We know a '44 name when we see one and there was no doubting Al Hormel's in a letter to The New York Times August 22 in which he hoped for more clout from the Presidential candidates. "Elections between Tweedledum and Tweedledee," he wrote, "don't excite the populace."

But a May clipping from a Lynn, Mass., newspaper contained some excitement of another kind. Dr. Louis D. Savage was awarded the AtlantiCare Health Foundation's annual Physician of Excellence award. A radiology specialist, Lou got his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, interned at Mary Hitchcock in Hanover, and served with the navy before joining Union Hospital (now AtlantiCare) in 1952. He's been there ever since.

Also doctoring, in south Brooklyn, is BillStahl, who works in a trauma unit of an emergency center. "It's rugged," Bill says. "We get 500 patients a day, and an awful lot of them with knife and gunshot wounds." Bill's second wife died two years ago and he recently remarried.

And also ending several years of widowerhood, Warren Kimball married Peg Piper last June. The Kimballs continue to live in Contoocook, N.H., and they have a winter place on Captiva Island, Fla.

Sadly, Dick Revenaugh died of cancer August 19 in Fairfield, Conn. That's it. Blessings.

Frederick L. Hier, Box 24, Lovejoy Hill, Cornish Flat, NH 03746