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We remember John Marsh's four years in the Dartmouth Glee Club, including two as its leader, a period in which the Glee Club peaked by winning the national intercollegiate championship at New York's Carnegie Hall. John became a full-time student at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he met Flavia and was preparing for a professional career in music, from which he was wrested away by the temptations of the industrial world. He now reports that, after a 37-year absence from music, he has joined a church choir and local choral society, and gave five Christmas concerts. He and Flavia recently returned from a five-week trip to San Francisco and Sedona, Ariz., and FlaviA then had a second successful cataract operation.

John sent an article from the St. Petersburg Times which related in greater detail John's presentation to the Marine Corps of his photo of five graves of Marines killed in 1801 battling Barbara Coast pirates "on the shores of Tripoli," which Milt reported in the December ThiRtyteer. John observed that he is the only surviving classmate from Dartmouth's baseball team. The other '30s were Bill Breckridge, Gunnar Holstrom, Brick Sands, Bart McDonough, Reed Levin, and Ed Jeremiah.

As to the other Florida emigre from Lakewood, Ohio, Hank and Gwen Odbert reported that Hank has had several TIAs- Transient Ischemic Attacks—for which he was hospitalized first on a trip in North Carolina and again after their return to Pensacola, but "seems better now." A more recent note doesn't mention any recurrence. If it's any comfort to them, flub Christman's Margaret has had several TIAs, and over the past ten years Liela Marr also had had a half dozen or more, unrelated to her demise in January. Seems endemic among former Lakewoodites.

I mention occasionally that my column is not the place for fast-breaking news. I'm not embarrassed about reporting ancient history, like Alan Leslie's quadruple by-pass in March 1987, which was delayed two or three weeks after a coronary, because a staph infection complicated the angiogram. He and Fannie celebrated his survival by going to Australia and Fiji.

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