1935

In a roundabout manner (from a fraternity brother with a son living in Honolulu) we have just heard of the spectacular showing that Pug Atherton made in a recent cribbage tournament at the Oahu Country Club. He and his partner were barely edged out 224 to 220 by the champions, who were awarded dinners at the club while the runners-up won buffet luncheons.

George Colton passed on the news that the Rand Stowell Memorial Downhill Ski Race for international racers was held in January at Sugarloaf in the Carrabassett Valley. Randy's widow, Phoebe, is now spending most of her time at Sugarloaf.

With the exception of Earl Arthurs, and possibly other members of our class, Eric andMargot Hawke seem to be more on the move than most of us. They recently marvelled at the colosseum and other Roman ruins at Aries, checked the theaters in London, visited cathedrals and museums in England and Scotland, and passed through southern Spain to Lisbon to view the unusual Gulbenkian collection. After that they went to La Jolla, Scotsdale, Santa Fe, and Dallas. In between they managed to squeeze in opening night at the Metropolitan Opera.

Jack Auwerter, in spite of age and mild disapproval from wife Eleanor, continues his skiing all over the world, and he obviously loves it. Their five children with spouses and the 11 grandchildren all live in places other than Cleveland, so he and Eleanor are forced to entertain themselves.

This column is being prepared during the XVI Winter Olympics. How many of you remember that Jack Shea '34 won two golds in speedskating in 1932 at Lake Placid? Those were the only golds during our residence in Hanover. Jack Rubin sent in a clipping from the Hartford Courant recalling the undefeated 1925 football team, on which every starter was an honor student and there were 22 Phi Beta Kappas on the squad.

Well-known author Michael Crichton has recently written a fictional thriller, entided RisingSun, which puts fordi the idea that we are asleep while the U.S. economy is being invaded by the Japanese. The New York Sunday Times of February 9 contains an in-depth review of the book. In the same issue Robert Reich '68, son of our own Ed Reich and a political economy professor at Harvard, has written a superb six-column report about the proliferation of Japan-bashing books that just happens to coincide widi the end of die cold war and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

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