1933

Happy Ides of March! We've been hearing interesting news from the farflung brethren and sistern. From Los Angeles comes word that Paul Weston is living the good life out there on Century Hill. He has recovered spectacularly from the replacement of both hips and is playing golf two or three days a week. He has retired from arranging and conducting and Jo Stafford, his wife, is no longer singing, but they are working on the merchandising of some of their old albums through Corinthian Records, a companion activity of their remarkable success in writing and producing liturgical music. Paul and Jo are very generously donating a segment of their fabulous store of arrangements, masters, and historical musical material to the College to form a definitive collection of modern popular music. They have just greeted a new grandson who bids fair to develop into a Big Green fullback. Soon, we hope!

From a house in Colorado Springs and a Fort Union, N.M., ranch, Peggy (Sayre) Marshall really gets around. Last spring she was here in Washington with her daughter Ellen, to march for women's rights. More recently, she spoke to 200 people in Webster Hall, in Hanover, to help mark the 50th anniversary of the Ravine Camp at Moosilauke. Garbed in pink and flesh color, amid the prevailing Hanover gray, she is reputed to have set an audience of 200, including the president, on its collective ear. She is now heading for Northampton and her 5 sth (ssh!).

Johnny Schneider, erstwhile speedball artist, retired to the sidelines for a hip replacement last September and has had a fine recovery, relieving him of great previous pain. When last heard from, he was planning a return to work and continued collaboration with his partner on publication of the multinational Executive Travel Companion.

Dick Lyon, Washington troglodyte, has pulled back from local political machinations and he and Dorothy are madly peddling their blue antique china up and clown the Atlantic seaboard. Dick has just been made general counsel emeritus of the Washington Better Business Bureau, concluding a Lyon family tenure of that office reaching back to 1920.

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