1944

Nary a word in this column about our fall mini reunion, October 5-7, or our football season or whether I had one slice of pumpkin pie or two at Thanksgiving. Would you believe that we have to submit this copy at least two months in advance, and so this is being written September 15. Shucks, we don't even have fall colors yet.

But that doesn't stop our favorite photographer, Ja Densmore, who is out shooting color half the days of the year. Ja and some of his colleagues run photo workshops around the country, and Ja came east from his home/studio in Colorado to give a workshop in the Hanover area at the time of our fall reunion. He also had an article in the September 1995 issue of Outdoor Photographer magazine on how to make a backpack into a camera bag.

We had a scare in August upon hearing the news that three or four climbers had been killed climbing K2, the world's second highest mountain, in Pakistan. We knew that Dick and Carol Ranger's daughter, Pam, had gone to base camp with the expedition, and that her husband, Jack Roberts, was on the climbing team. Fortunately, Jack succumbed to high altitude sickness on the way up and was forced to withdraw before an avalanche swept others to their deaths. Whew!

A dandy news clipping from Gloversville, N.Y., tells us that retired school psychologist Jim Sinon's prize rose, "A Touch of Class," won the Queen of the Show at the Schenectady Rose Society's annual show. But the honor goes beyond Gloversville and Schenectady, according to Jim. '"A Touch of Class,"' he explained, "is the highest-rated rosebush in the world, with a 9.3 on a scale of 1 to 10." A master gardener, Jim volunteers locally for the Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Another belated winner's report, this one from Chuck and Joan Foster, who live in Warren, Vt., and travel the country showing their championship pug dogs. "A crowning point came last year," says Chuck, "when one of our dogs won a championship in San Antonio, Texas—a four-point major for those of you who don't know your show-dog jargon."

Winners, too, have to include John andMarilynn Berry, who, along with their family and the Loren M. Berry Foundation, have pledged $3 million to the Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute's capital campaign. The money will be used to create the Berry Wing of European Art. "We have always tried to do things to enhance the quality of life in Dayton and the Miami Valley," said John, "and the art institute is one of the gems of our cultural life."

It's almost officially final: DavePatterson retired this fall as executive director of the Binghamton (N.Y.) Summer Music Festival. It's his fourth official retirement from that position, of course.

Inadvertantly left out of Rog Feldman's obituary was the fact that he and Shirley established a Law Day in honor of their son Michael '7l, who died in 1975. It is an annual event held at Georgetown University, with national and international participants.

Jim Lang died September IS. Our sympathies.

That's it. Blessings.

P.O. Box 24, Lovejoy Hill, Cornish Flat, NH 03746

DavePatterson retiredthis fall asexecutive directorof the BinghamtonSummer MusicFestival—for thefourth time.FRITZ Hier '44