1933

The moiling and hassling across town on Capitol Hill has not been duplicated in the activities of the class of 1933, as far as your correspondent knows. Nor with the temperature whacking 100 on this July day is there any eagerness to bustle about and create news.

Our poetess laureate has not tossed off any new effusions from the hills of Claremont. No new class marriages have been announced. Even the flow of obituary notices has slowed, a welcome development.

Of course, we might report that Hal Smith has continued his rampage through the Connecticut financial scene by picking up another multi-million-dollar bank down in Shelton, but these acquisitions have got to be par for the course with him and don't rate a stop press any more.

Weatherwise, we can take some consolation from a recent conversation with Ned Lord, who told us that the heat wave had hit Limington, Maine, as well as Washington. Here, in Foggy Bottom and environs, one expects to boil about the time of the summer solstice, but Down East, along the rockbound coast, the travel agents and motel proprietors are usually offering cooling breezes. Fortunately, Ned's one small air conditioning unit has apparently functioned sufficiently to permit him to produce another welcome newsletter.

Jack Manchester, sounding cheerful and bolstered by various therapeutic appendages, is manfully puttering about making preparations for a September 29-30 mini-reunion on the Cornell game weekend. The prospect of sitting in the Memorial Field stands, recently graced by our Chief Executive (although upstaged by the Gingrich love-in), and watching a game play out with the Balch Hill background of fall foliage, remains an appealingone, and Rosemary and your secretary hope to be on hand. Jack's loyal, devoted, and efficient service as '33's Hanover representative over the years has been far above the call of duty and deserves the thanks of all.

Apparently there is something stimulating to the affections in the atmosphere on the Lyme Road. We have had the recent Riggs nuptials as one example, and now the report comes through that Jack Wright, known locally as the Kendal Romeo, may be seen in the dining room regularly entertaining bevies of female admirers. No wonder he has a fibrillation now and then!

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