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Gardner Ashley writes that he is devoting more time to one of his hobbies, genealogy, and wonders if some of our classmates would like to contact him about their similar interests. In addition to the Ashley clan, he is related to the Jewetts, who go back to England and medieval France.

On a reCent trip to northern California and Oregon to visit our daughters, we came across a column by Page Smith in the San Francisco Chronicle. After a few remarks about the origins of photography, he described some of the humorous foul-ups he had in trying to get some decent shots in the first place, and then at a much later time trying to remember where the good ones had been taken. The solution to the first problem is to get one of the idiot-proof (so-called "point and shoot") cameras. The second problem can be solved only by changing to a more disciplined, nonprocrastinating lifestyle.

Jonathan Ingersoll's new play, To Catch aBrass Ring, was presented recently by the Ashtabula Arts Center's Studio Theatre. Rave reviews.

After digging some soft-shell clams a while back in East Orleans, we found Pete Shedden settling in at his summer cottage nearby. No photographic problems for him. He showed us some dramatic shots of the disastrous ice storm in Rochester, N.Y., which destroyed many of his beautiful old trees. No electric power in much of the city for 10 cold days made the living conditions pretty rough.

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