1932

"It's been a good summer," writes Pete Knight from Deer Isle, Maine, "with plenty of wood cut for the stove." Shall we assume he manipulates his own chainsaw? Maybe he sends Rusty out to do the woodlot chores. After a summer of sailing and tennis, the Knights returned to Cleve- land Heights regretfully.

In August we had a happy, if brief, visit with Joe and Ruth Roberts. They had snapshots of their home in Sun City West, bright with roses. Joe had just sold his beautiful place on Seneca Lake. Both Robertses looked well tanned (pale, they insisted, in comparison with how they had looked before leaving Arizona). Guess who introduced this happy pair? Two other happy Arizonans, Hal and Carnell Chinlund.

Bud Hubbard, laconic as always, won't use a sentence when a phrase will serve. "All Quiet on the Western Front," says the green card from San Diego. Period. Let's put Bud in touch with John Davidson, who writes wistfully from Pasadena, "Being out in left field this way has a tendency to separate one from the pack. I ran into JimNorth in Baltimore several years ago, but he lives in San Francisco." How about a friendly classmate in the Los Angeles area giving John a ring?

Travelwise, Johnny and Rita Richard-son seem to be far from retired. A Danube tour in September took them behind the Iron Curtain. "We found Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia depressed and depressing," writes Johnny. "Possibly the willingness of guides to speak about failures of the Communist system was an indication of glasnost and should be encouraging, but the discouragement of the people and the disintegration of the beautiful buildings creates a depressing aura. A man at the American embassy blamed the bureaucracy, the equal payment to all regardless of work. One guide said the average work day was 3 1/2 hours. Even out in the countryside we saw little life or activity in the fields." The Richardsons plan to spend Christmas in Bermuda again. Then in Februaiy they will embark on a deluxe Norwegian freighter for a voyage along the east coast of South America to Buenos Aires and return.

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