1944

How better to begin than with the sound of music, wedding-bells music, that is? Mary Bush, HapBush's widow (he died in May 1986) re-married last spring to Everett Sargent of Naples, Fla. The couple honeymooned in Equador and the Galapagos Islands, and they'll divide their time between homes in Naples and Blandford, Mass.

Then, Bob McLaughry's daughter Linda was married in Hanover June 24 before a throng of hundreds, including a substantial '44 contingent, including Joe andAnn McDevitt, who flew in from California just for the event. (Joe was an old Marine Air Corps flying buddy of Bob's). Linda's husband, Nate Burt, is a ski coach at Middlebury College, as well as an ardent cyclist. Incidentally, the McLaughrys and McDevitts managed to get in several rounds of golf and jawing in Hanover during the McDevitts' stay.

Finally, The New York Times carried the engagement of the late Dick Silberstein's son, Dr. Charles H. Silberstein, to Laura Delano Roosevelt, the daughter of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and a granddaughter of President Franklin Roosevelt. And just to make it more '44-ish, Dick's wife and Charles's mother, Muriel, is married to Herb Storfer, who heads Storfer & Associates, an executive-search concern in New York.

New kids on the block this past summer were Rog and Shirley Feldman, who shuttered their home on Martha's Vineyard for three months and rented a house in Hanover. "We just wanted a little change," said Rog. He was keeping the old bod in shape, biking the hills and daily laps in the gym pool.

Also in the area for the summer were Arnie and Ann Sanders, on their annual trek from California to New Hampshire's Lake Winnepesauke, where they spend half the year in a camp built by their family in 1936. A stockbroker, Arnie retired six years ago.

Nice chat with Bill Turpin in Edenton, N.C., near the ocean. A retired foreign service officer, Bill keeps his hand in teaching Latin at a nearby private school; researching for the local historical society; and sailing with wife Nancy in their 34' Columbia sloop. Son William Jr., a professor of classics at Swarthmore College, won a prestigeous American Academy Rome Prize Fellowship for study in the Italian capital. He was one of 24 winners from over a thousand applicants for the 1989-90 period.

Mickey Smith, president of General American Investors Company in New York since 1961, has moved upstairs to vice chairman of that closed-end investment company.

Judge Monte Basbas was the subject of a long piece in the March 1989 issue of Boston Magazine. Monte, a one-time Newton, Mass., city clerk and a former Newton mayor, has been on the Newton bench for 17 years, not all of it a bowl of strawberry shortcake.

You may have read Sugar Ray Robinson's obituary a few months back. Not included in it was the fact that Twitch Miller went two rounds with him in the finals of a Golden Gloves match in 1939.

That's it. Blessings.

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