1927

It has been a full month since we reported a hospitalization resulting from a tribesman's car being struck and totaled by another driver. Here is one more, hopefully the last.

Late last year, Ed Fry was "out" until he arrived at the hospital. After numerous X rays and tests, he was able to walk out of the place. Although this experience ended Ed's driving days, it did not keep him from attending his astronomy classes at Chaffee College, where he was the oldest student in the class.

The class extends its congratulations to Judge Charles Baker, who recently received the"Man of the Year" award from the state bar associadion of Ohio for his 50 years of outstanding public service.

Frigid weather in New Bedford, Mass., has pretty much kept Seth Besse away from the golf links, but has not deterred our devoted and energetic head class agent from striving by letter, phone, and word of mouth to replace several assistant agents who died during the past year.

That dependable correspondent, Gordon Colby, reported in from Woodbridge, Conn.: "Mary and I are free from all but the most inconsequential infirmities dealt out to octogenarians and we are pleased with a long and happy life together that will reach 60 in August. No snow this winter, so far, except a surprise visit of ten inches of that white stuff early in December that almost got us out to slide with our grandchildren."

Gordon Hope, as we shivered up here in the north, took time out from sun bathing in Redington Beach, Fla., to thank us for the class birthday card which, he allows, becomes more welcome each year. He wrote, "Dora and I still drive to Kezar Lake, Maine, each summer and return to Florida in October. We swim every day in Boca Grega Bay on the Gulf Coast as well as in Kezar Lake all summer."

Two classmates have completed their careers since we last wrote: Oren Herwitz died January 16 and we have only just heard of the death of Walter Bowlby on October 11, 1987.

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