1931

RFD 2, Box 36-A Schnecksville, PA 18078

George Nickum wrote that Mary Ann and he now have a mailing address for all seasons—3332 East Shore Drive, Seattle, WA 98112. Please make this change in your address books. They plan to continue spending the summer at their Bainbridge Island home, and a couple of months of winter in Palm Desert, but mail should go to that Seattle address from which it will be forwarded.

From down the Pacific coast a bit TowerSnow called with a brief report that all is well in Walnut Creek now that they've had a goodly amount of much needed rain.

Back across this land and the Atlantic Ocean Jack Weisert wrote that he was much better, and again can chip and putt around the golf course, "sometimes riding in a Yamaha"; also that while I have probably received some ribbing on the name Schnecksville (you bet I have, Jack, from far and near, and many times), I should know that the first syllable of it figures in the daily life of Ilona and Jack. Seems there's a French sweet roll made in the form of a snail, so when the Weiserts go to a patisserie they order "escargots." But since both Ilona and Jack also handle the German language well, between themselves they refer to these "snails" or "escargots" as "schnecken," which is the way these sweet rolls are ordered in a German patisserie. Hence Jack's expense log with items of "schnecken" will never let him forget his class secretary. Furthermore, Ilona and he long ago dropped the "e" from "schnecke" (singular), and simply say "schneck"! This account should interest classmates with Pennsylvania German family names. In the current Allentown telephone book there are six or more listings each for Bach, Beisel, Burkhardt,Frankel, Hausman, Miller, Schantz (middle name of Bob Oelman), Schneider,Schultz, Schumacher, Wagner, and Woodring.

From back across the Atlantic in Florida came a letter from Bernie Boyle expressing hope that one Stephanie Boyle—whose mother is a full-blooded native American (Ben Hardman take notice), and whose great-uncle is one of our classmates—is accepted for admission to Dartmouth in the class of 1992. Bernie still is an liaison enrollment officer, having interviewed around 80 applicants for admission in the last ten years, but finds it difficult to get help in this work from other alumni.

Lastly, across Florida, Bob Oelman, now far from Beirut, reported that he was to attend a meeting of the Dartmouth Club in Palm Beach at which he planned to see several East Coast '3lers.