1951

Bob Byall, Cleveland environs, checked in by telephone during the summer. He is recently retired from a banking career of more than 25 years with the Broadview Savings Bank in Ohio, a once most prominent institution that, after Bob's retirement, fell on hard times and went under. Bob's getting in a lot of golf and keeping up with his four children, among whom there are a West Point graduate and two nurses. Bob has been a widower for about five years and says he's trying to include Hanover in his travels. He remarked that he was a little tired of seeing the same names in these columns issue after issue. This secretary would like to point out that he can only write what he learns from the readers. Any others of Bob's mindset now know how to correct this injustice!

Art Worden was also on the horn. We discovered we had been just a couple miles apart during two weeks this summer. His folks have a summer place on the beach in Clinton, the next town east. Next trip we'll get together and get caught up.

Nice to hear that John Hoskins retired in July from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N., his last post having been in Jamaica. John is returning to the family farm, 12660 Mulvane Road, Richwood, OH 43344 (change your directory). He's been "working full time to get Bill Clinton elected" and by now will have seen success or failure.

It's always shocking to see a familiar face on the obituary page. The New York Times carried the story of Bob Kreidler's very full life and his death on September 6 in New York. Bob's Dartmouth obituary will appear in a future issue.

Bill Boynton—my generous PR man and predecessor, and an English prof, for heaven's sake—submitted this sympathetic ditty: A secretary's job isn't easy, Especially when one's rather busy. So send him a line, Even though you've not time, Then we'll all of us not feel so queasy.

Mercifully, space constraints preclude printing two other equally haunting verses. But you get the idea. Thanks, Bill. It's Labor Day weekend as I write, but let me be among the first to wish you all a happy holiday season. How about putting me on your card list, at least for the balance of my term? All that news you rattle off in your cards and Christmas letters is exactly what I'm dreaming of finding in my mailbox every day.

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