1939

Charlie Swan and DickSchumacher provide the sobering news for this month's report. Charlie passed away at Scripts Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, Calif., on December 29 and Dick exactly one month later at Martin Memorial Hospital in Stuart, Fla.

Immediately after filing our column for last month from the sunny west shore of Florida, we attended a luncheon of the Dartmouth Club of Sarasota with some 100 or more in attendance in that city. As far as we were concerned the gathering features John Gauntlett, Chick and Shirley Spiltoir, and Dick Baldauf, who all were in splendid style. And on the following weekend Math and I made it to Betsy Emmons's fantastic winter soiree in Naples at which the following were in attendance with wives: Bates, Goding, Clymer, Roy White, Gordon King, John Davenport, Tower,MacMannis, Batchelder, Bill Green, Farnell, Jack Cumming, Norma Blunt, and of course our hostess.

Our peripatetic newsletter scribe, BobDavidson, had a midwinter sojourn in his local hospital which neither noticably slowed down his '39 Out production nor the planning of his next trip. By the middle of February he and Cocky were off for Jamaica, then St. Thomas, and via an 80-foot ketch, through the British Virgin Islands before departing for home from Montego Bay, their final port of call.

The New York Daily News recorded the retirement of Les Smith, "a leading radio newscaster/political correspondent" who has spent his last 32 years on WOR, in New York. Les, who bid farewell to his audience on the famed "Rambling With Gambling" show, was quoted as saying he plans to relax and unwind, catch up on some reading and then do some writing, maybe a book on politics.

Ev Woodman is "still trying to walk" after submitting to his fourth total hip replacement last August 9 which he describes as a total disaster. He suggests that the next time he may try a garage at his home in Potter Place, N.H., for future surgery.

In thanking us for a birthday card, A1 Meyer says that he and Dot had such a good time at our 50th that they are planning on making the 55 th. Why not a mini in the fall, AI? AI further sends on congrats to the folks who did such a fine job arranging last June's reunion. Muggsy Bly writes that he has been to Mayo Clinic a couple of times preparatory to an extended trip in May. He doesn't specify his problem, but states that he's had some nice visits with Muriel andNed Bayrd who are, of course, in residence at Rochester, Minn.

In the good news department, our class scholarship program, which has recently topped $100,000, is now of sufficient size to accommodate two scholarships rather than the hitherto one. This is rather unique as far as class sponsored scholarships go, and something for which we should all be proud.

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