1923

Henry J. Perkins continues to "Alpine (downhill, that is) ski when snow and weather conditions permit," according to a note from fel low Waitsfield, Vt., inhabitant H. Sewell Williams, who was also a fellow member with Henry of the World War II 11th Division, 10th Mountain Division, U.S. Army. Sewell drives Henry to most of the division's New England chapter meetings. Sewell closes his message with a quote of Henry's motto: "I would rather be over the hill than under it," and adding: "Stop by and see him if in Vermont's Mad River-Sugarbush Valley."

I should have managed to pay a vist to Henry while attending the C.O.W. in Hanover over April 26-28. I did make the bus trip with fellow class officers to the foot of a small Vermont mountain (sounds better than hilltop!) with a two-and-a-half-mile climb to its summit.

Cap Palmer tells me that his daughter Gay and son-in-law Tony Frank '53 are in Russia, where Tony has the assignment of dedicating a memorial stamp to Pulitzer Prizewinner William Saroyan in dual ceremonies in Leningrad and in an Armenian City.

Rev. Msgr. Carlos Sanchez wrote in a recent letter to Joe Boldt '32, "I still say my own daily Mass privately, except on Sundays, when I say Mass at a home where the family has ten children. Most of them are now married and we have a lot of babies walking around during Mass, also the dogs which like to lie under the altar table. But it is a lovely Mass. The older ones bring friends. It is sort of give and take, but very devotional. God is so good to us."

In a letter to Cap Palmer, CharlieZimmerman tells of a phone chat with HowieAlcorn, now at home after last fall's brief hos-pitalization and, Charlie reports, in good spirits. Charlie had to decline an invitation to visit Howie and Berta at their home in Suffield, Conn., as he is limiting his driving to the trip between home and office in Hartford.

At an American Industrial Hygiene Conference in Salt Lake City the week of May 20, I presented a 15-minute talk to a class of high school seniors on the advantages of a career in industrial hygiene, drawing on my 65 years of experience in the field to include items of interest to this group.

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