1957

Twenty-four pounds of New England obsters were the thank-you note to Hanny Mason for the June mini-reunion he organized and hosted in Des Moines. Bob Macdonald reported, "The group consisted of Larry and Beverly Blades, Jack and Joan Hall, George and Ann Johnston, Bob and June Macdonald, and Ted Spetnagel. There were enough seats in the van Han'ny hired for all but one. You should have seen Spetnagel in the Dartmouth chair back where the luggage goes. And we had food! In the van, you'd put your hand in the back and get some more. We'd eat on the way to the restaurants." Hanny's agenda included a riverboat ride on the Mississippi, front row seats at the opera, tennis and golf at Hanny's club, visits to the Amana Colony and the Living History Farm, and wonderful meals. June Macdonald said, "lowa was just fantastic... entirely different from what I pictured it to be."

Happy Griffiths is president of the Herb Society of New Hampshire, teacher of herbs at Lebanon College, and herbalist at the Shaker Village in Enfield (location of the class dinner). For those attainments, she was featured in the June issue of Yankee Magazine and subsequently on WBZ television in Boston. The magazine article presented a number of Happy's recipes, including rhubarb punch, rosemary cookies, rose geranium jelly, and cream of lovage soup. Now lovage, according to Happy, has hollow stems and can make a great contribution to a cocktail party. Cut off a slice and drink your bloody mary through it like a straw to get that extra celery taste. That's a new one on me; I thought lovage was something one did, not ate.

Several years ago, Phil and Priscilla Rollins's daughter Alison was tragically electrocuted in the course of her occupation as a maritime engineer. Earlier this summer, Dick Canton, Jack Cramer, Dan Goggin, George Johnston, Bob Shirley, David Thompson, and Phil Rollins were among the hundred or more golfers who participated in a tournament on Cape Cod, the proceeds of which funded a scholarship in Alison's memory at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

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