1925

Pete Blodgett is in fine fettle. He says he had a wonderful Christmas up in the country in Lyme with his nephew Put '53. He reports Don Hunt is better, tor which good news we offer loud cheers.

Larry Leavitt reports that in December Gippy Newman went to Sarasota, the birthplace of Women of Dartmouth some ten years ago, to promote new memberships in that society and bring news from the North.

Omission: forgot to include granddaughter Jennifer '9O among campers with myself, son Ed, and families last June, our tenth outing in row. She is a very good cook and fine ballplayer. She is a second-year law student at University of Michigan.

Favorite son honored Bob Cartright in the Boston Globe, November 4: "Ninetieth anniversary of Ted Geisel's birth: He was a one of a kind thinker who seemed perfectly normal and charming around the housetestimony of wife Audrey. But when he sat down and wrapped himself in his quirky imagination to write, he would spin tales of Whos, Hunches, Sneeches, Grinches, and Cats in Hats. His words, many of them never found in any stodgy dictionary, danced along on the stream of consciousness ribbon, dipping and looping and winding themselves around the reader's mind. He gave permission, nay demanded, that children let their imagina- tions run wild. Etis only philosophy was to grow up if you have to, but never grow old. Now at the 90th anniversary of Geisel's birth, cable mogul Ted Turner is celebrating a month-long 'Seuss-a-Beration' with the most complete gathering of animations based on Seuss's books, including Horton Hears a Who, The Lorax, TheCat in the Hat, and the classic holiday tale, Howthe Grinch Stole Christmas. But his piece de resistance is a two-hour special, In Search of Dr.Seuss, commissioned by Turner. The facts and information are all there, but they are recounted by a parade of Seuss characters in colorful musical terms." Bully for Ted!

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