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Among last month's list of the gainfully employed I neglected George Porter, who started his own business last year, providing reportorial services for meetings and hearings. Ave Raube says it's in big demand.

And this might be an opportunity for your secretary, who owes so many letters, to explain that he also is fully, though not gainfully, employed. As I told someone recently in my usual apology for a slow response, no matter what I'm doing at any moment of any day, I should be doing at least two or three other things instead.

Enclosed with Bob Jordan's class dues, Harrison Condon received a note from Rita Jordan reporting that Bob has had Alzheimer's for ten years and has been in a nursing home for nearly three years. He is in "splendid" physical health and walks outdoors at least two hours daily. We extend our sympathy to both Rita and Bob. We extend our sympathy also to Lou Emrich for the loss of Mickey Emrich on June 11. There's an obituary by Pete Callaway.

More on the Callaway-Chilcote excursion, which I mentioned briefly last month: In London they saw three plays, and did the other "usual" things, including a trip to Hampton Court, where they encountered Pete and Lib Davis. All had dinner that night at the Savoy. Thence to Lisbon, where they rented a car and drove to Faro, Portugal, and then to Seville, Cordoba, Übeda, Granada, Benidorm, Valencia, Alarcon, and Madrid. Pete says Lee is an excellent driver, which was essential on those two-lane roads, with trucks, trucks, and trucks. I recall my own meeting with a truck on a Spanish road 30 years ago. So in Madrid they hired a car with driver for a trip to El Escorial, to "Valley of the Fallen," Franco's monument to himself, to Avila, and finally Toledo.

Belated congratulations to Milt and Grace Shultz, who celebrated their 50th on April 20. Their two sons, Barry '64 and Brad '66 sent them round-trip tickets to be sure they got from Sarasota to Reading for the celebration.

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