1953

Tony Frank tells us one out of every 150 workers is employed by the U.S. Postal Service, and true to the statistics we have at least two others beside the big stamp licker. Jack Runyon is postmaster at Middlebury, Vt, and plans to retire in the next year or two. He was in Hanover for the Bucknell game, when a number of us got together at the Goss's. Our new arrivals, the Bob Simpsons, were there. (May I correct an error? The Simpsons are down to two homes, having sold the one in Pennsylvania.) The gathering also included the Fred Hitts, Father Ed Boyle, looking very fit and even playing handball now and then, the Jack Zimmermans, and the Harlan Fairs. The Fairs will be our newest arrivals when they upgrade from their condo in Norwich to their house in Thetford After seeing Russ andMargie Cook's house in Thetford at the minireunion last fall, they knew they had to be there. The Simpsons do get the record for the fastest move-in. Within five days of deed signing, everything was in place like they'd been there for 20 years, and they had an elegant soiree with the Hendersons, Bill Johnsons, Paganuccis and Carletons there.

Back to the postal service, Tom Dewey, our water-bound letter carrier at USPS HQ in Washington is really racking up the awards in his master's swimming competition, the 60-64 bracket. These include four firsts and two seconds at the East Coast Long Course Championships, seven medals in nine events at the U.S. Master's National Long Course Meet, and a first in the Atlantic City Miss America Pageant 1.5-mile ocean swim.

Howie Clery has been at more Capitol Hill and state house functions around the country than George Bush. One piece of campus security legislation which the Clerys are pushing has been passed nationally and bills are in progress in several states. Howie also mentioned that Connie received the prestigious Gimbel Award for public service. The last woman recipient was Amelia Aerhart.

In other world events, Byron Menides recentity left for Greece where he is being installed as a trustee of Anatolia University. He will also get together with members of the Menides clan in Northern Greece. Elena Kingsland is just back from a month's trip to Japan, and Dave Florence, just returned from there. He's been considering a branch office for his mailing list company there.

Jack and Colette Crisp were here for the Holy Cross game. Jack isn't even thinking of retirement and is active both in the Crisp Clinic and at St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua.

Warren Cassidy now enjoying retirement from the NRA, writes from Wakefield, N.H., about the intensity of feeling on both sides of the gun issue. "The worst said about me by my opponents was that I was an 'lvy League Moderate.' God, what an epitaph!"

One of those "resisting enrollment in the AARP" is Jack Morris, who has just joined Citiport as director of media relations upon retiring from the Morgan Bank after 16 years in PR. He writes that he's "delighted to... stay in the middle of the action," and there is some of that at Citiport.

Hope to see many of you this fall and at Harbour Ridge in January.

K-Ross, P.O. Box 436, Lebanon, NH 03766

Tony Frank tells us that one out of every 150 workers is employed by the U.S. Postal Service. FRED CARLETON '53