1934

We had a delightful lunch with Anne and BabeShea at their beautiful Moorings Golf Club in Vero Beach. It was fun talking about old times, and we look forward to seeing them often while we're in the sunny South. And here also, we chatted with Betty and John McCoy after church services last Sunday. They both look well and are enjoying life in their John's Island home here in Vero. They're here for eight months a year, and spend the summer months at their Saratoga Springs home.

The Alumni Magazine sent me two photographs and a letter from Judy, daughterin-law (or granddaughter?) of another Shea, our classmate Jack, double goldmedalwinner in the 1932 Olympics. The pictures were of a formal presentation last summer by jack's cousins of a major "D"which he had been promised, but never received—to honor Jack's exploit. (Bill Scherman told me he thought that the late Art Leonard had arranged to have the College send Jack a major "D" sweater at our 50th Reunion to make up for the omissionbut perhaps that never took place). Jack's twin speed-skating victories, an outstanding athletic feat, deserve two "D" awards anyway. Judy wrote: "Jack had some happy times in '95, especially the privilege of awarding his grandson his Silver Medal at the Lake Placid World Cup Skeleton Race last February. That race is sliding head-first on a sled down the bob-runsoon to be announced as an Olympic sport."

Dr. William J. Reid, author of CastleIsland and Fort Independence, recently published by the Boston Public Library Press, greeted the public at the South Boston Branch Library recently. Bill, a Boston native and a resident of South Boston for the past 45 years, has produced a handsome book, illustrated with rare photographs and diagrams from the Boston Library's archives, on the utilization of that historic Boston Harbor island and its fortifications from early colonial days to the present. Bill taught history for most of his 40-year career in the Boston schools, from which he retired in 1981.

We were sorry to learn of the deaths of Bob Korns, Rus Smart, and MacThomas, for whom formal obituaries will appear in future issues of this magazine. Meanwhile, our sincerest sympathies to their families.

198-B Heritage Hills, Somers, NY 10589.