1943

I received a note from Paul Young with a news clipping showing Bodie Mosenthal hard at work on the United Church of Christ, Bradford, Vt., annual wild game supper. This is a 32-year-old institution that serves over 1,000 people, and has to turn about that number away. So, if you want to "pass the beaver, and munch the moose," send in your application to Bodie right away for next year's event.

Paul, I appreciate your note, but you could have included a little bit about what you and Ruth are doing in retirement in Hanover. You don't have to tell us what is going on at the College, since we have already read about that in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

A nice note from Bill Porter brings us up to date, and I wish more of you would do the same. Bill retired from the "oceangoing-vessel-repair" business five years ago, and is now living in Jensen Beach, Fla. To take up the retirement slack, he is the president of a 260-unit condo, which is not only an unpaid position but probably thankless, too. To escape complaints from the 260, Bill and Barbara summer on Fire Island (the straight section) and in the spring and fall the eastern shore of Virginia—and then back to the 260. Bill is enjoying the good life fishing, boating, and golfing. And when the 260 becomes too much he escapes to Keystone County for skiing.

A news clipping from the L. A. Times indicates that Chub Feeney made an obscene gesture to some of his admiring fans. Chub, in Boston we refer to that (with no small amount of reverence) as the Ted Williams salute. Chub, when they are hanging your picture in Cooperstown, I hope they will put it between Ted and Leo Durocher as baseball men who got their message across.

A nice note from Jim Adams says that since he and his wife, Clarisse, have been living in California so long, their children went to colleges out there. He has a grandson who is thinking of going to Stanford, but Jim bought him a Dartmouth warmup suit to psyche him out of that plan. Jim has recently written and published a book "The Real Estate Listing Manual," and he will be glad to autograph your copy at the next mini-reunion.

I regret to report that Fred Lent died from cancer on December 11. Fred served his College and his class well and was loved and respected by us all. Further, Major Russell Feuerham died August 25, 1986, from cancer, and Richard Rudolph died in an automobile accident on November 3, 1988.

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