1941

After a two-month hiatus, it's time to check the file folder for reportable, if a bit ancient, items. The third annual mini-reunion of '41s in Florida was a rousing success, with 14 classmates plus wives attending the luncheon affair in Sarasota on March 26. Don and Pat Stillman were at the head table talking about their upcoming 50th anniversary. Bill and Jean Hotaling from Hanover came the farthest distance, begrudgingly leaving their skis in super snow. Hank and Esther Fisk had fish stories to tell; Tom and Patty Trump dispensed news about their new condo in Wisconsin; and Doug and Anita Bridge lauded their new retirement complex at Sun City.

Also there were George and Faye Tamlyn, vacationing from New Jersey; Walt Winchester, the Florida-born medic; your humble scribe; plus Bill and Evelyn Hammond from Inverness, up the road apiece. John Kelley and Larry Barnett swapped golf scores. Don Taber reminisced with Bob and Lil Lempke about his post-graduate employment with Bob at Kimball Union Academy.

Stu and Audrey May were also at the mini, happy with their retirement at Spring Hill, where Stu works for the travel bureau one day a week. After the mini they entertained five overnight guests at one time—three Belgians and two Luxembourgers. Now that's hospitality!

Unfortunately Brodie and Fran Bjorklund and Norm and Janet Locke missed the .March mini, though they were remembered by all present. Brodie was in the local hospital after a slight stroke, and Norm was in intensive care after being rear-ended at a stoplight. Norm spent two months in the Venice hospital and then was flown in Mav to St. Vincent's in Bridgeport, Conn. (06606), where he continues his slow recovery. Brodie and Fran also flew north (in early April) and Brodie began a six-month program of speech therapy. Then the Bjorklunds were dealt a second blow when Fran was hospitalized in Long Island and then passed away on May 7. She had struggled with health problems for several years, but never stopped living to her fullest capacity.

On a happier note, while perusing a biography of Irwin Shaw, I spied a 1950 photo of the wedding of William Styron, the nowfamous writer, to a Rose Burgunder. In the group photo was the bride's brother, our own Bernei Burgunder in Rome. A phone call to Bethesda, Md., found Bernei in good health and enjoving semi-retirement from S. Kann, a holding company. He and Amelie have done some recent traveling to A lorocco. Hong Kong, and Australia.

A victim of the big storm that hit the East Coast in March, George Simpson suffered a mild heart attack while removing snow from his trees in Asheville. X.C. He had bypass surgery on March 26 and then batded some post-op complications, losing 19 pounds along the way. A call to George on June 9 found him feeling much better, having just graduated to Phase 2 of Heart Path, a program of monitored exercises at the hospital.

Alonk Larson was the source of the early report on Dr. George. He and Dickie also had snow problems in Delmar, N.Y. 27 inches on top of two feet after the Big One, but fortunately no ill effect on dieir health or home. But it did move them to sign up for a co-op on the East Coast of Florida for next winter.

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