1932

Some of us could find Mink Brook today, I suppose, after a little searching, not to say trespassing. To undergraduate '32s who trekked to its banks for bathing and study on a May day of sudden spring, it remains an almost mythical stream of youthful memories. One of us, one who sought Mink Brook not for a swim but for troutfishing, found it the source of a career. Read Bob Smith's story in Sports Illustrated (July 31). The sympathetic author calls Bob "an impassioned preservationist who has caught, photographed, and released 39 of the 40 known geographical races of fresh-water trout on this continent." Bob majored in geology, added biology to his interests, and devoted 30 years of himself to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It concerns him that the existence of the truly wild trout, not the weak, hatchery-spawned imitation of the real thing, is tragically threatened. How? Why, this hatchery product, "factory trout" as Bob calls them, have been dumped into the very streams where the wild variety live. Thus the race has been hybridized. Read the fascinating article if you can, enjoy vicariously Bob's life of wilderness aviation and narrow escapes, and maybe you'll want to look up his book "Native Trout of North America" (1984), illustrated with his own color photography.

Jim Corbett ended his summer with a painful coccyx problem, severe enough to keep the Corbetts from driving from Lake George to Art and Dobbie Allen's picnic before the Princeton game. Amy sent regrets in the form of delicious chocolate cookies, transported by Al Zinggeler and his charming bride Made, who had been visiting the Corbetts. Incidentally, Art, who had to leave right after the game with a "big boat" crew for a race in Connecticut, predicted his Dartmouth team would win. And they did.

Francis and Sunny Savage tell us that their Gainesville address for the winter months "is no longer applicable. We have reverted to one-home living." They will be in Florida only in january and February this winter—on Amelia Island.

P.O. Box 286, Grantham, NH 03753