1939

Since our last we have lost four good men. Bill Deal passed away on November 4 after a bout with lung cancer. Otie Mudge died on November 15 of the same disease. Terry died on December 6 after a short illness of causes as yet unknown to the writer, and on December 15 Dr. Roy Allen passed away at a VA hospital in Hartford, Conn., after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. (Obits will appear in later issues.)

In the Small World department, GeorgeHanna writes that while dining with the RoyMiddle-worths in Venice, Fla., a guest from California who was in the same Air Force Group in WWII with Roy volunteered that he played golf regularly with a Dartmouth man named Lenny Vines. George, mindful of Len's robust left-handed blows on Red Rolfe Field in Hanover, asked if Len plays golf lefthanded. He does.

As of January 15, Mary Jane and HaasWarrener were at Pasco Cerrs, Green Valley, Ariz., where they expected to remain for several months.

After properly chastising me for having visited Santa Fe last June without so much as a hello, Key Blatchford writes that life in that unique city can be a dream. (I must confess to colossal stupidity in making such a trip without first consulting the class address book.) Key says he "skied yesterday and plays tennis tomorrow." He also promises that he and Bev have scheduled a visit to Hanover next fall for the class mini-reunion, and that's good news. A PS. to his note suggests that his youngest son, Eddy, has a part in the hit film "The Last of the Mohicans." He is one of the settlers, smoking a pipe, in the opening scene.

On November 11 Elaine Hammel Stine dropped us a green card advising that exactly 55 years ago on that date she met Herb on a blind date arranged by her brother Ed. It was House Party Weekend cold and rainy and she says we beat Cornell (Unfortunately, I think it was a 6-6 tie).

Janie Waters had a third hip replacement operation in December and says that Buzz gets to be chief cook, scullery maid, launderer, and nurse. So much for the Golden Years.

Gail and Wally Davis, with son Jeff, paid us a visit here in the Berkshires. They were in town to spend Christmas with Jeff, who lives in West Stockbridge, Mass.

Jinny and Herb Mattlage celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at St. Andrews, N.B., on the Bay of Fundy on September 21. Herb reported that he recently had a good chat with Whitey Pratt at a funeral in Concord, N.H., and that Whitey was fine.

We close by reporting that Jock Lynch dropped us a note which included some memorabilia clippings headlined "Scrubs Show Up Green Varsity" and again "Scrubs Run Big Green Ragged." This refers to a JV triumph in which both Jock and I had a part in the fall of 1936.

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