1939

Our numbers are down to an even 370 men after the deaths of Fred Fiigon on November 9, Al Gorman on December 17, and RoyWhite on Christmas Eve (obits in this or following issues).

"Getting ready to sell the farm and move into a retirement community in Falmouth, Maine, in August," writes Bob Wehmeyer from Kezar Falls, Maine.

Lois and Bill Bachman put in some time in Singapore, Bali, Bangkok, etc. They were home in time to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with family in Palm Springs and other California stops. Thence to Boulder and Sun Valley, where they saw pictures of DickDurrance and John Litchfield still displayed at the Lodge after 50 years .

From Martha Schofield we learn that she and Jim are going to miss our 55th because of Jim's battle with Parkinson's disease. BillLyon writes from Los Gatos, Calif., that he plans to make it back to Hanover on June 13, and so to does Virginia Woodward, the wife of the late Bob Woodward.

Bill Russell's Christmas card notes that last winter he submitted to angioplasty to fix up a rebelling heart; that he spent time working with the Piscataquog Watershed Association in New Hampshire in efforts to protect the river, watershed, and wedands; and that he is just back from England, where he visited relatives in Northumberland.

Dick Clark's wife from Hilton Head, S.C., reports that he has had several small strokes and has been in a nursing home since February 1993.

Bud Bodge writes from 50 miles north of San Francisco that he visited his sister in Maine in the fall. He says he is beginning to feel "undereducated" in that his 80-year-old sister got her master's in history in May, his son Andy '72 took his master's in software engineering a few years ago, and "a gaggle of grandchildren and grandnieces seem to find post-graduate study a way of life. But I shall continue to resist the blandishments of academe. I never was good at it."

Woody Miller, in noting that ColbyHowe's wife was not listed in our new direc- tory, recounted a Thanksgiving trip he made home to Philly with Jack Graham, HankConkle, Bill Kent, Wally Davis, and Colby. "We were all excited to be going home, even for three days. There was change of stations in New York City, Grand Central to Penn station, and the timing was tricky. As we ran, a slob of a train announcer was blaring out a list of stations over . the PA system. He was also blocking our way. Howe hit him with a corner of a suitcase, and this behemoth roared out, 'You son-of-a-bitch!' Little old ladies crouching over toilet bowls must have been raised right off their seats. Anyway, it was a memorable experience,, and we were all laughing so hard that we almost missed the last taxi in line to get us to Penn Station."

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