1934

Holiday greetings provide us an opportunity to update the old friends. It was quite an assembly job for the Bill Daniells to get 24 people for their card. They are coming close to the Engelmans who had 29 individuals pictured on this year's classic card.

Many travel now to celebrate where the progeny live. Ralph and Jack Brabbee travelled from their Pass Christian home to their son Nick's home in St. Louis. At other times they shift in season to their Texas and Wisconsin hideouts.

Some happily connect the holidays with special events. Our President Jack Tobin and wife Bobbie celebrated their 50th on january 3 with the whole family present at their Shelter Island home. I combined Christmas with the chance to be her first grandparent to see new arrival Madeline smiling in her Washington home.

And memories help. It was almost 49 years ago when Alike Joseph shouted a greeting to me on a Miami Beach street during our AAF service. The vision came alive in the light of today's scenes, and he phoned me one evening. He said he saw a lad with a "D" shirt in his store recently and asked if he had connection to anyone there. He said "Yes, Gene Orsenigo is my grandfather."

After I missed John Randall when I was in Wisconsin this fall, he wrote that he is still an active management consultant to capital goods companies, his job after retiring as president of a machine tool company. He and Dorothy like their Milwaukee location for all seasons but get tempted to the Smokies, etc. for short stays.

In the excellent winter issue of Dartmouth Medicine, there is a group photo from 1939 with a familiar face, Frank Lepreau. He told me he is active as medical director of a public patient rehabilitation unit in Fall River and also teaches a couple of classes at Brown University Medical School. The new Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will be something to see next time you're in Hanover—it is costing $215 million and will be one of the most complete new medical centers in the country.

As Billy Graham said in a program honoring George Burns, "Old age is now becoming fashionable." Let's all keep in good shape 'til we reach it—say, 20 years from now.

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