1920

I owe muI owe much of this column to our ffaithful treasurer, Hope Frey. In October, with her class dues, Peg(Mrs. Franklin) Johnson wrote to Hope from Lantana, fla.: "there is nothing very exciting going on here that I can participate in because I have had glaucoma for about 22 years. I walk with a mobilator...It is like a three-wheel bike, and now many of the elderly in Florida use them....The thing I do enjoy is my records. When I was a child my father bought a Victrola with a horn on it, and he used to play his Red Seal records on Sundays to the neighborhood children. I also get classical music on TV. What a blessing that is."

Pat Andretta Butler wrote to Hope: "Many thanks for continuing to carry on for the class of 1920." I also received a heart-warming note from Pat: "Each time I find the class of '20 first in the Class Notes, it is you I tip my hat to...I know that the 'diminishing numbers,' one and all, are grateful to you. Sal would be." Thank you, Pat!

The real prize is the lovely, clever card congratulating Anne Cookson Thomson on her 100th birthday, January 31, 1994. Anne is doubly a Thomson widow, having first (in 1922) married Earl J.Thomson, the Olympic star who died in 1971, and in 1974, Earl W. Thomson '15A (no kin), who died in 1982. What a wonderful coincidence of names! Besides recording the milestones in Anne's long and eventful life, the card interweaves a list of events, both historical and cultural (including nostalgic trivia),in the U.S.A. A real treasure, with a lovely portrait of Anne on the cover.

On a more solemn note, a recent Valley News reports the death of Horace "Dal"Dalrymple. An obituary will appear in a future issue of the magazine.

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