1926

During frigid climate in New England, news wafted from Bermuda that Ed and Ollie Raisbeck were spending Christmas there with temperature in the seventies. Earlier in Darien, Conn., their three children from California, Ohio, and the District of Columbia and two out of nine grandchildren came on for Ed's surprise birthday party. A two-year-old great-grandson did not quite make it.

Bequest chairman Kier Boyd joined our class treasurer with thanks for the 1926 birthday card, stating age has no particular meaning if you are enjoying good health. After 62 years of happy marriage he was sorry that Marion's condition remains unchanged as result of a stroke which requires nursing home care.

Det Harwood, whose Florida winter is spent first with her daughter Georgia in St. Joe, and then Langford Hotel, Winter Park, shares with us news of Francis and Cecelia Pan, Hong Kong. They did not visit their daughter Shirley in California last summer as Francis still works every day for his management class and bank. He and several other professors spent a month last March lecturing in Peking, but this no longer is possible.

Johns Hopkins University where Paul taught was seen, and a return on shipboard was made just as the gangplank was taken up. Two phone calls were made in Georgia: Frank Nelson, St. Simons Island (who had moved there to be near his daughter) whose health could be better, but is doing all right; also Chuck Morton, Darien, he and Dorothy enjoying good health in their quiet location having escaped Hurricane Hugo. In Boca Raton, Fla., Bob and Dorothy Stopford had us for dinner where we learned that Bob was just recovering from a broken hip, having tripped over a concrete parking curb. They promised to join the 1926 group at North Hill, Needham, on their planned trip to Boston in April.

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