1939

The meagre reports that have filtered through to your Secretary are primarily centered around summer activities. As the fall season firms up, the snap comes into the air (in some areas even some snow), so perhaps it's not bad to remind us of those warm, lazy days. Before you know it we'll be watching for the jolly old man with the red hat and the white beard.

Muggsy Bly writes that he is back home after a month at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., where he underwent major surgery on his back. Hardly a way to spend those "lazy" summer days. He'll be semiconfined for three to six months.

A man who is always on the go, Whit Cushing made his annual trip to the north country, visiting some of the haunts of his youth in Vermont and on into Canada, where he hoped to look up Jim Allen in Montreal.

Jim and Doris Corner visited Alaska, which they said was superb, and then came back to the lower 48 for a brief stay at Martha's Vineyard before returning home. They recharged their batteries and then took off for Hanover and the mini.

Cardiologist Allan Friedlich took July off from his busy, busy Boston practice to entertain his new wife in Europe.

Bill and Jane Kent came north to visit Marty and Junie Merriam in Darien, Conn. Betsy Wyman-Emmons went down from her summer home in Portsmouth, N.H., to join them.

Harry Gates, while tending to some chores relative to his recent published autobiography, had a pleasant visit with Evand Ruth Woodman and Bill and CarolRussell in Francestown, N.H. Harry says that he loves to see old friends from Dartmouth. He figures he is trying to "make up for the earlier days when he lived a reclusive life" (see his book, More Than A Prophet for an explanation of this comment).

Kev and Lynn Fay have moved from California to North Carolina to Louisville, Ky., to be near their daughter Sharon Roy and her husband. Kev immediately joined the local Dartmouth club and helped host the Dartmouth entry in the solar car race, which you might have read about in the press. They also spent an evening with fellow club members on a steamboat ride up the Ohio River. Active crowd, those Kentuckians!

The New England Journal of Medicine carries a favorable report on Charlie Neer's recently published book entitled ShoulderReconstruction. To quote just a bit, "Written by one of the country's foremost shoulder experts, it systematically and completely reviews the basics of shoulder function and dysfunction and presents techniques and results of both operative and nonoperative treatments." According to Dick Storrs, M.D., Charlie is retiring and heading for his old home in Vinita, Okla., to restore his parents' home and continue to raise and ride orses.

We would welcome some completed green cards, and so too would Bob Davidson. So if you have a minute . . .

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