1940

Dear Class: Well, at least I got one valentine in response to the February column. It was special, coming from Betty Hayden, along with her summary of Hayden activities family, antique jewelry business, volunteer work. Good to hear!

Phone call from Elmer Browne in late February. Jack Little and Brownie hard at work on good things for the 50th.

Doctor Lew Lambert checked in from Washington State by mail. He and Sam (Mrs. L) have given up the big house, he says, in part because "the empty rooms get emptier and the pitch of the stairs gets steeper." Sounds familiar! They're now in a "double-wide" mobile home and love it.

Several letter writers (Ann Porter Berger, Harry Hoyt, Scotty Rogers, and Brownie) have confirmed that there was a mighty mini-reunion in the Vero area (FlorIda) which included all of the above with their spice, Eb and Mevie Cockley (hosts), Sam and Lorraine Williams, Gina (De Sieves) and Bill Risley '39, Bob and LeeLake, Bill and Nancy Bumsted, plus visitors Karl and Ginny Bruch and Bob andCrosbie MacMillen.

Peripatetic Scotty also hit the West Coast of Florida, visiting Carol and Dave Davenport in Nokomis (all fine and thinking 50th), seeing Dave and Ginny Rice at their good-looking retail store (women's clothes) in Sarasota, a marine lunch with Powell andDottie Holbein (enjoying their new Tidy Island winter home very much), then a good conversation with Dink Weiner (he and Harry Hoyt are hoping to corral all of their group of senior-year roommates for the 50th), followed by some good words with Pat Timothy.

Shifting to the West Coast: a trip by Johnny and Sylvia Peacock to Del Mar was expanded to include visits with Cec and Ardie Moore, Ty and Rhoda Cobb, Loomieand Scotty Rogers. Dick Babcock was also in the area with a guest-lecturer shot in San Diego. Dick and Betty are aiming for Hanover in June of '90 for the fabulous 50th.

I understand there was yet another mini at Lake Wales, Fla., but no hard information . . . just innuendos, which of course we cannot publish.

By now you must have heard about the proposed "town meeting" to be held in Hanover in the fall. Sponsored by the class of '45 and others, it is not to promote a point of view but to try and clear the air and put some of the fighting behind us. Jack Little called to tell me about it and it sounds like a positive step. All are invited to attend.

I had heard that there would be no Winter Carnival snow sculpture on the campus, owing to complete lack of snow. Now I've learned that snow did come in the nick—spurred on they say, by suggestions from President Freedman's February 1 telecast. So, that tradition still holds firm.

That's it, folks. Thanks to those who wrote and how about you others???

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