1927

As we have said before, all of our news comes from replies to our class birthday cards. Therefore, please prefix "Thank you for writing" before each of the following five paragraphs.

From Pleasant Hill, Tenn., came Chuck Brewster's annual update. Last summer, he and Frances went to Maine by plane instead of by auto, flying to Portland via Chicago and returning home in late July by the same route. This is their tenth year in the Uplands Retirement Home, which suits their needs perfectly.

Another down Mainer, who winters in Montrose, Va., is Norm Swift. He wrote, "Ruth and I are in good health. We spent last summer, as usual, on Georgetown Island in Maine. In September, we took a twoweeks' trip to eastern and western Washington much of which is ranch country."

From Hilton Head Island, S.C., Bill Starr writes that he leads a fairly quiet life. He plays golf about three times a week with steadily increasing scores, walks regularly, and takes bike rides.

After a long silence, it was also great to hear from Charlie Allen, who lives in Barre, Mass. He and Gladys are still at home together, although she has been wheelchairbound since mid-1986 when she suffered a severe stroke. The two are enjoying a new lifestyle by reliving by film and slides their many foreign trips. They traveled the length and breadth of South Africa eight times, are thoroughly familiar with living conditions there, and are disgusted with Dartmouth's policy with regard to divestment of investments.

A recent note reports that Joseph Leonard Tracy died June 14, 1989. But to end this modest offering on a more pleasant note, here in Wayland, in early January, the good news is that it has finally warmed up a bit after the longest cold spell in the 119 years of recorded weather, many mornings considerably under zero degrees.

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