1925

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We have to report the deaths of five more classmates: Blair Brandow Gilbert, CharlesPerkins Fitch, Joseph John Campbell,George Bacon Moore, and Karl PrescottLipsohn.

Although Lane Goss and Jack Norris missed the mini-reunion, both are reported well, and Jack did, in fact, attend the game. Benjamin Bates '71, the third son of Buckyand Mollie Bates, married Joanna Walters in September. Roy Brown's daughter, Ruth Davis, reports that Roy is in a nursing home in Ocala; Fla., but is doing quite well, enjoying sing-alongs, bingo, and his work in ceramics. Art Dewing claims he is just aging with the century but says he liked it better when it was younger, and we were too. He is still in Norwich, where he settled when he started as an English instructor and continued as a professor at Dartmouth until his retirement. Stow Goding is still mowing ten acres on his farm in Amherst, Mass., and doing gardening and making light repairs on home, farm house, and barn.

Melanie Norton, the new director of stewardship in Hanover, reports on the 1925 class endowment balance, which was $52,990 in June, 1986, with $5,050 added in 1986-87, and $5,855 earned income, and a balance in June, 1987, of $58,040. She adds her notation of the College's gratitude for our continued support for the program of assistance to students requiring financial aid.

The exhibit of Ted Geisel's work, which is touring the country, showed up recently at the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida and received the usual acclaim, according to the St. Petersburg Times. The article quotes a first grader, when confronted with a huge photo of our 83-year-old classmate, as exclaiming mournfully, "I didn't know he would be old," to which the teacher chided, "He's not old; he's just older than you." Jane Jones, the prominent artist, widow of Wen Jones, held an exhibition of her paintings and reception in November at the Petrucci Gallery in Saugerties, N.Y. The Boston Globe recently featured an article on Montgomery House (the munificent innovation funded by the generosity of Ken and Harle Montgomery) and about its temporary English resident, author and Montgomery Fellow, John Mortimer.

Thought for the month: If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.