1930

Bill Fieldcamp's wife, Jane, has written Harrison Condon that Bill, like Scott VanDerbeck, is badly crippled by arthritis. Bill would greatly appreciate hearing from classmates, and I'm sure that's true of Van also.

Spring is here, and the Haffenreffers too. On March 19, four days after my DAM deadline, Carl and Carolyn will have branched with me and that other refugee from the frozen or muddy East, Frank Logan '52, together with a couple from '42.

However, the Ted Wolfs will not be Tucson-bound this spring. A February letter from Ted put him and Betty in Florida for three super-senior tournaments, and visits to the Everglades and Key West. He saw the Goulds and Charlie Rauch, glimpsed the Perkinses and Flo Sturman, and phoned Zeigler, VanDerbeck, Wiggin, and Stayman, who is playing bridge "only" three times a week now, plus three national tournaments. Ted is very modest about his own tournaments. Several reports indicate that Lee Sturman is taking it easy and avoiding too much activity. We send Lee our best wishes.

Chuck Jacobs's green card arrived just too late for the Thirtyteer's birthday derby, but his July 29, 1909, places him about midfield. He's just returned from a cruise and ten days in Ecuador, where he's revising that section of his South American Travel Digest,

Chuck and Bobbie spent two and a half months in Europe last summer. Undoubtedly the most fascinating segment of their wanderings was spent on El Transcantabrico or, more affectionately, "Santiago Choo-Choo." For eight days and seven nights this especially-equipped narrowgauge train winds across mountainous northwestern Spain, from Santiago de Compostela to Leon, with morning and afternoon side trips by air-conditioned bus to points of special interest and selected restaurants or inns. Overnight the train sits on a siding. The trip covered about a thousand miles, 625 of them by train. Thanks to the birthday derby, CharlieWidmayer discovered that we're twins, both born June 4, 1908. Charlie's not convinced that Dick Peabody is our youngest, and some rainy day he intends to research it. But not just now —"too much Dickey digging to do."

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