1938

GRACE NOTES. Still actively playing golf (seemingly a 1938 retirement syndrome), St. Louis's Ed Grace is going strong after a rather severe car wreck. Ed made a relatively fast comeback, but Adele has taken a longer while to recover. Prognosis is good, however.

Ed sees erstwhile roommate Jim Jones, now a retired attorney, and one way or another, he keeps in touch with Charley Erwin and Val Craven, who, by the way, was present at the 50th wedding anniversary of Phil and Anne Harty.

TOLLERANCE. When last heard from, Russ and Alice Toiler were about to depart for a visit to England, with the Chelsea Flower Show high on their list of priorities. The tour they chose was an AAA/Connecticut Museum of History operation. Russ reports having had open heart surgery in both 1981 and 1988, but he's still active in church affairs, while the floral arrangement department is in Alice's bailiwick.

BROWN STUDY. From down Dela- ware way comes news of Bob Brown who is doing just fine, thank you. Bob is constantly busy skiing in Colorado and Vermont, gardening, playing tennis, or golfing the latter a later-in-life interest. In the New England phase of his operations, Bob occasionally spots Bob Reno in New Hampshire. In the nostalgia department, Bob recalled roommates Ralph van Orsdale, Jim Carpenter, and Bob Murphy.

Another Brown study caught Irving Brown planting bulbs of indeterminate nature; and somewhat cryptic notes, taken last May, suggest he and a legion of black flies are competing in activities for the Arbor Tree Foundation. At last report the black flies were winning. Irving, too, gets to Hanover as Medical School Alumni Fund drive rep for classes of the '30s. He is also a regular attendee at Seacoast Alumni meetings. Irving says that Paul Urion is in the area, and he sees Dick Niebling now and again. Irving still does "whatever" work at Exeter Hospital.

BIRMINGHAM (AND OTHER) BRIEFS. A mini-chat with Fred and Martha Thorp revealed 1) more than a trace of Deep South accent, 2) the intelligence that Fred gets to visit Hanover after first seeing his sister in Newport, 3) not much else except a wonderful warmth.

On another front, Bud Newman gets to lunch Florida style with Jack Renchard and sees Big Ed White in Punta Gorda. Bob passed along the news that ex-roommate Kenny McMahon recently passed on.

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT. Lenzo Gutner, who retired as a practicing physician last year after 41 years of service, was feted at the White Plains (N.Y) Hospital's Hall of Fame Dinner at the Rye (N.Y.) Town Hilton Hotel a few months back. Interestingly, the event was reported in The Sound View News, a Yonkers weekly. So here we have a Yonkers paper reporting on a White Plains event held in Rye for a resident of Mamaroneck. That's Lenzo all over.

CURTAIN CALL. The first 1990 minireunion is about to go center stage. The weekend: September 21-23. Dartmouth takes on Lehigh, and as in the past, the Sheraton Norm Country Inn in West Leb will be base camp. You can't beat Hanover in the fall. So why not try it!

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