1947

How easily we can slip into the lull or Christmas season, and let time peacefully slip past, until we notice that a mid-January dead line is at hand, for a March column. I like to let the mail come in and pile up in my Dartmouth corner.

Tom Harrington writes, on a colorful card depicting Poolside bathing girls, that he has made a tour of northern Mexico, by first-and second-class buses. Tom, after a career of teaching high schoolers, likes to mingle, is a good communicator, and enjoys low-ley experiences. He is able to cope with vigorous activities in meeting and sharing a slice of life with fellow travelers. He describes his travels as vigorous, and is now making his way through Texas. He deplores the non-muffler sounds of buses, and the amplified musical cars popular in Mexico's smaller cities.

A note from Bear Davis (Roy to some of us) places himself and Judy now in Garden Grove, Calif., a short move from Santa Ana. Sounds like there may be better surfing there.

Skipping to the East Coast, we're in a snow drought situation, and grass is showing all over New England. Man-made snow is covering all the slopes. This season will sharpen skills in that technique. All of the ponds and lakes offer fair to good skating.

Bill Hallager at Loon Mountain offers good rates for weekday skiing. He has lots of snow there.

My winter experience was a recent trip to Philadelphia to play with grandchildren. The return trip up the Jersey Pike, through White Plains, ran into ice, sliding trucks, and then snow. And next came a wrong turn to take us up a rush-hour-packed Connecticut Pike. As we inched past Alan Epstein's DBL office in White Plains, we were wondering how one copes with such traffic.

Alan tells me he coped by taking Sally to Florida for a week of sun and golf. They were in the Orange Bowl crowd we watched on TV—the two tiny flashlights on the left center of your screen.

Our snow trip saga continued, in nearly whiteout conditions, at a snail's pace. Suddenly, as if by magic, we were at the end of Urs and Frank Weber's street. There we stayed warm and cared for. Frank was looking forward to a trip to Houston for the winter golf season.

Marty and Ginnie Marino attended a January medical foundation meeting, prior to Marty's testifying in Columbus, Ohio, as an expert witness. Is this the case of the secret "mooner?"

Doug and Elton Burch tell us Nantucket Island is the place to be for a quiet winter. Doug teaches marketing at Fisher Junior College, is secretary of the Rotary Club, and serves as consultant associate for Educational Management Network, an executive search ana human resources firm. Elton is with the Island's leading real estate firm. Together they celebrated their daughter Wendy's marriage in early November to the Nantucket fire chief. A beautiful wedding, a tremendous party aren't they all and best of all, discount rates on all fires on their own property for the next five years. Doug and Elton have carved an entirely new life and career after full and satisfying careers in Connecticut. Congratulations to them.

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