1928

There has been a dearth of news. According to my trusty old Webster's Collegiate, dearth means scarcity which renders dear, or lack of sufficiency. Couldn't have described the situation better myself.

Among the few items at hand is a cheerful note not previously acknowledged from Jules Lemkin, enclosing a clipping from the Boston Globe about Sara Devins, Dartmouth's supergirl, three-sport athlete. He found her background interesting. She is a distant relative of Major General Charles Devins, of Civil War fame, whose statue Jules has passed many times.

Ed Flanders now qualifies as the oldest member of the Manchester, N.H., Dartmouth. Club since the death last year of a member of the class of'26. He admits to some confusion between the here and the hereafter. When he goes downstairs to get something he had forgotten he often wonders what he is hereafter. He said it,I didn't.

Jack Zellers forwarded a note from Taveyand Louise Taylor reporting that they now are living at Spring Lake Village, Santa Rosa, Calif., an Episcopal retirement facility. They evidently are participating in, and enjoying, the activities provided.

I thought Paula and I were doing pretty well for our moderately advanced age to have three great-grandchildren. However, in writing the obituary for Bruce Lewis I was amazed to learn that he was survived by 24 great grandchildren. Must be a record.

I regret to report the deaths of George Klein on October 14, Bruce Lewis, October 20, and George French, December 19, 1993.