1928

This is the season for buds to burst, blossoms to bloom and for Ed Flanders to emerge from hibernation (but does he ever sleep?). It is rumored that he is aiming at a record contribution to the Alumni Fund for classes 63 years out. It is one of the few that we have not yet had an opportunity to break. The sly fellow has suggested another motive for increasing our contributions this year. He notes that, with our advancing years, most of us survivors have suffered the loss of at least one former college roommate. Why not, then, add a bit to the donation this year in his memory? Not bad. What will he think of next year?

Efforts a while back to get into contact with our newsletter editor proved futile. His answering machine provided no information except that no one could answer the phone just now. Finally, after many weeks, ArtKneerim had the kindness to lift the receiver personally. It seems that he and Lee had been on a few weeks' jaunt to Singapore, just about half way 'round the world. It seems they have a son who had an itch to see the world and had taken up residence there, and they thought it would be nice to see him. When they had last seen him was not recorded. They found him busily engaged in shipping avocadoes to Paris of all things thereby, no doubt, filling a long-felt need of the Parisiens for salad ballast. While Art can no longer see well enough to drive a car, he could see well enough to enjoy the sights of Singapore and environs. The writer can dimly recall fulfilling a youthful ambition by having a Singapore gin sling in Singapore in about 1932. Delightful place.

If you think a meager amount of news has been stretched to exorbitant lengths in these notes you may be on to something. The remedy is in your hands. A little "in-put", as they call it, would do wonders for the out-put.

We regret to report the death of MonaWesthaver, widow of Honey, in Hawaii on February 19.

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