1945

Globally peripatetic Frank Aldrich comments from the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C., "Always find it scintillating to be in such a totally different environment as one finds here." He was en route to the Antilles, to check on his bank.

Enclosed with the above was a letter from Fred Campbell of Colorado Springs stating he and Amy are staying "close to the barn" as he struggles with his dissertation, practices a little law, and teaches colonial and early national history at the University of Colorado. They did manage to see his old Crosby Hall roommate Warren Quimby and wife Betty. Quim is retired from his career with the New York Port Authority. The Campbells caught flack from at least one classmate for missing our 45th but hope they'll get to the 50th in '95.

Another world traveler, H. Leroy Hampton, is a truthful sort, so ya gotta believe him when he writes that a whirlwind trip of two weeks to Zurich, Wurzburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Bamberg, and towns in between, capped with two days in London, was accomplished in ten hours of sunshine and no rain during the entire trip. In November, yet! He toured London in a privately owned taxi at £17 per hour, fled from Harrod's back to his hotel when he discovered he had left his wallet in the room, and was bested by an English Customs Agent. Harry corrected the agent's reference to London as the center of the universe with the admonition that it was Boston. The agent, in turn, corrected Harry by musing "Boston, Lincolnshire—but certainly." Peg (o' my heart) got him back in time to go to Longboat Key, Fla., where he can fret over preparing his I.R.S. report.

For a retiree (from the Foreign Service), John Holdridge, with wife Martha, is pretty darn active. Last year John managed a business trip to Indonesia and China and some traveling in the U.S., spreading the word to businessmen that they had better get out there to Southeast Asia and compete. Add to this their battle against drought's effects on 20 steer calves on their farm in West Virginia and John's work on a book on normalization of Sino U.S. relations, and you wonder how they get it all done. But many of us who are retired wonder how we ever had the time to work. Life is wonderful, the way it and we adjust.

Here's an item, via Johnny Leggat, from the "Boston Glob" to stir your emotions: At the Auld Lang Syne Hockey Tournament, retired UNH coach Charlie Holt was honored for his contributions to amateur and college hockey. Then, the team he formerly coached beat Dartmouth's brains in, 8-3. Whatever happened to the Big Green's hockey program? Eddie Jeremiah must be whirling in his grave!

Childhood remembrance: "April Fool is past, and you're the biggest fool, at last."

Thought for the month: "If you can see the writing on the wall, you have young children." More likely "grandchildren" for us.

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