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I'm a bit off-cycle this month. The November deadline is September 15, but as Milt reported, I'm leaving September 2 for what must sound like a hit-and-run cruise out of Hong Kong to Kaohsiung, Manila, Brunei, Kuching, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Bangkok. God willing, I'll be at the mini, which will put me out of sync also for an October 15 deadline on the Winter issue. However, I hope to pick up 350 words of gossip in Wood- stock and write a column on that long flight home, to fax it overnight only two days late, for which I've received a special dispensation.

I understand from that generally reliable source that the Haffenrefiers are giving up their winter homestead in Tubac, Ariz. I'm sorry but not too surprised, as they have been there less and less in recent years. Not many of us desert rats left; just the Christ-mans and Joe Guilfoy in Sun City and old Marr in Green Valley, plus Louella (Jerry)Howard, who continues to be a generous supporter of the Alumni Fund. One of our other widows, Mildred (Carlos Nestler)Morrison, seems to have deserted us. But we do have visitors. Dave and Harriet La-tham have visited Peoria, near Sun City, several times, and right now there seems to be a good chance that Prexy and Lari Widmayer will be in Green Valley in February and March.

Late in July I received a newspaper obit on Jere Annis from my frequent corre- spondent, Bob Chittim, In thanking him I wondered why he and Marge hadn't made their usual June trek from Longboat Key to Cape Cod. Bob responded that on June 6 Marge had given up four feet of gangrenous intestine, grounding them until August 2, when she was well enough for the trip. Happily, she's had no complications, and they expected to stay at the Cape for four to six weeks.

Personally, and on behalf of the entire class, I send a message of sympathy to George Lord and the rest of their family for the loss of George's wife, Kay, on August 12, after 55 years of marriage. Services and burial took place in Hanover.

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