1928

Mutt Jennings, our peripatetic class president, has been unable to come to his telephone in recent weeks (as of this writing in early February) for good reason. He has been on safari in Kenya. He joined a group in London which flew from there to Nairobi. Returned at last, after a 20-hour trip home by air via London, he reports surprise at finding that much of Kenya is open grass, and that observation of wildlife, mostly giraffe and buffalo, is conducted in open trucks or from balloons which permit unobstructed views for photographers. He also visited the east coast of Africa, including Zanzibar, where there is a museum displaying 1,800 varieties of birds. Whoever thought that if you get to the middle eighties you're old? It has been this writer's contention that you are not showing the effects of aging until you have to sit down to put on your jockey shorts. Mutt probably gets into his both feet at once from a standing start.

It is pleasant to report that Larry Martin is recovering nicely from surgery, sufficiently serious to cause a gathering of the clan. His three far-flung sons, one dean of Hampden- Sydney, another the European manager of Balk-Calendar sporting goods, and a third in the bed and breakfast business in California, flew in to lend encouragement. It worked.

With the well-earned retirement of our long-suffering Campaigner editor, ArtKneerim, a search is on for a replacement. One of Art's greatest problems, after his failing eyesight, was getting classmates to report news of their activities. This writer, of course, shares this problem in spades. Help.

Curly Prosser reports he is about to discard his cane. Doctors had recommended a hip operation but a third opinion maintained he suffered from a sprained ligament. This has proven correct and the sprain has responded to treatment.

We regret to report the death of TommyThomas on January 5.

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