1942

An always welcome phone call from Bill Mitchel early in May included a query about the current addresses of Dotty Gates and Debby Lippman, to whom he wished to send condolence messages. Fortunately, I had just picked up an updated computer printout of 1942 addresses at the class secretaries meeting in Hanover and was able to tell him that Debby's address remains the same, but Dorothy Gates has moved to #620, 2462 N. Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211. That made me curious about other possible address changes, so Betty helped me compare the'96 list with last year's and we turned up 28 changes, some of them very minor.

Just for fun, I wrote to Jon Brewer to ask why he and Sally had moved from Driggs, Idaho, to Cedaredge, Colo. John explains: "The western slope of Colorado enjoys a desert climate...but, at 6100 feet, the nights are cool and the days sunny and pleasant. It's an apple-orchard environment and great for golf. In a nutshell, Sally and I were tired of two things—long winters and the nerve-shreddings of the real-estate business. In Idaho we were just over the pass from Jackson Hole. Winters in the Tetons are magnificent but long. We had sold our little ranch to advantage (a novelty for us), had a few good years in real estate as Jackson started to pour over (another novelty after surviving the '80s), and looked at the peach-orchard business down here in sunny Colorado. Our Deer Creek Village is a story in itself. Conceived, engineered and marketed by the city under a non-paying mayor in office for 20-some years, it has sold out at non-negotiable prices to mostly middle-income retirees. They come from everywhere. [For annual green fees for a couple, check with John, if interested-1215 Par Court, Cedaredge, CO 01413—AAF] but don't tell anyone. ...All this reminds me of the itchiness of retirement. I've been self-employed since 1962, when I left New York, and I'm looking into bus-driving, apple-picking, etc. Just got back from our largest squadron reunion ever at Pensacola. Sally has grandchildren in Denver and Boise. I just saw mine in Pensacola and Jacksonville and have one in California, too. Talked to Dick Higgins recently and missed a chance to ski Big Sky with Dick Silver once again last winter. Still trying to get to Portland to see Johnny Storrs. I also have a daughter there."

Good letter (in December '95!) from Chuck Herberger with the latest word on Stonehenge: "Now regardless of what my good friend and ex-roommate, Jeff Markell, says, and my Gamma Delt fraternity brother, Pat Reilly, says, the real American Stonehenge is not in Washington at all but in the good old granite state of New Hampshire. In North Salem, N.H., stands a circle of astronomically aligned calendar stones which I have visited. It is known as America's Stonehenge, as the enclosed brochure and photo of an official State of New Hampshire road sign plainly attest. Its other name is 'Mystery Hill,' reflecting the enigma of its origin and builders. It was not built by an American millionaire. A reliable laboratory report on a fragment of charcoal from between wall stones gives an age of 3,475, plus or minus 210 years before the present (carbon-14 dating). If this date is sound, the structure was built at 1480 B.C. Since England's Stonehenge, Phase 1, is dated by carbon-14 at about 2800 8.C., New Hampshire's Stonehenge is about 1,320 years younger. But that still puts it back in the European Bronze Age. There are various theories about the builders—Phoenician mariners, Celtic priests, American Indians influenced by early pre-Columbian European Iberians." (It's open to the public April 1 to December.)

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