1939

Sadly, we start off the first (column of the new year with a report on the deaths of Jim Cooper (July 30), Joe Pyrtek (October 19), and Armando Chardiet (November 6). Obits in this or a later issue. Harry Gates represented the class at Joe's funeral and ex-roommate Bill Cunningham was at Armando's funeral.

I We were pleased to get the feature on Bud Little in last month's issue and delighted in the process to inveigle a few words from him. Flattered to have been named an honorary member of both the USSA and FIS, he admitted to being unhappy only because his mailbox stays empty and the phone does not ring as it once did. Commenting that Helena, Mont., is not on anybody's travel path, he says he has had visits from George Neiley and Ed Wells within the reasonably recent past.

Moreau and Esther Brown fortunately live in a house built on a rock in San Francisco, so they suffered no damage from the earthquake. He came east for the Brown game to be one of the featured speakers at the 100 th anniversary of the founding of the Alpha Omega Chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Dartmouth. He says he sat two seats down from Norma Blunt and also Herb and Ginny Mattlage as they watched the Green "crush" Brown, 12-6.

Bill and Bunny Webster were scheduled to leave the north on January 15, in their RV pulling a Honda, to spend a couple of months in Florida. Web says he expects to leave "the damn RV with a dealer in Florida to sell." As might be predicted, they plan to get back on a boat and, along with Docand Chip Tower and other friends, have a bareboat charter starting in mid-April.

We have heard from: Bob MacLeod who attended the "Wearers of The Green" affair in Boston over the weekend of the Harvard game. From Dr. Dick Marton who, although retired from practice, has taken a part-time job at the Lenox Hill Hospital in NYC in a so-called peer review capacity, an attempt to monitor the quality of in-hospital medical care. From the Bill Bachmans, who spent the summer touring Switzerland. Bill says his health is good, his golf poor, but he's having a ball. They plan a cruise in March but he doesn't state his destination. From Robb DeGraff, who with wife Pat had just returned in November from a "once-in-a-lifetime" trip going around the world on the British Air Concorde. He writes: "From N.Y.C., we managed in 23 days to hit Honolulu, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Kenya (on safari), and London. It was most interesting, exciting, and often tiring, but we heartily recommend it to anyone."

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