1950

Recently, I've received notes from two of our class ministers. Maybe it's just coincidence, but maybe they're trying to tell me something.

Dick Petersen recently accepted the pastorship of Bay Indies Evangelical Covenant Church in Venice on the west coast of Florida. He writes that he and Barbara will be retaining their legal residence in Scarborough, Maine, and I guess that means they'll divide their time between the two places. They have three sons and a daughter, and have seven grandchildren. Dick followed a call to the ministry in 1957 and went to the seminary at Duke University, where he earned his Ph.D. in biblical studies. He has served pastorships in North Carolina and Maine as well as being an exchange pastor in England, Switzerland, and Bermuda.

Chaplain Larry Huntley wrote a long note concluding with, "You asked for a cup of water and get a bucketful." He's in his fifth summer at the American Wilderness Leadership School, six miles (as the eagle flies, 38 miles by'road) from the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. Larry describes with pride his army surplus "Noble Boots" which he bought in 1946 for our freshman trip on Mt. Moosilauke and are still serviceable. Since then they have hiked Moosilauke four more times, worked on the trail crew there, climbed 23 of New Hampshire's highest peaks (Mt. Washington six times), and hiked the string of the 10 Presidentials four times. They have also tramped the Florida Everglades swamps, Australia's Blue Mountains, the High Sierras in California and Nevada, the Canadian Rockies' Columbia Glacier, Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, and most of Scotland.

I had a nice telephone chat with JohnnyWeber. He and Shirley had just returned home to Evansville, Ind., after several weeks of hiking and camping in the Southwest, including a stay with JohnTalley at the latter's wilderness cabin in the mountains north of Santa Fe. The peripatetic Webers were going off to Wisconsin for a couple of weeks and now are in Europe for three weeks.

Dottie Deans, a niece of NelsonGraves, proudly sent along a newspaper clipping telling of his winning the 70-over division of the U.S. National Squash Doubles championship in Buffalo last spring. Nelse and his partner previously had won the Canadian 40-over title and the U.S. championships in the 50-over and 60-over age groups.

A closing nostalgic note: Things now are more like they used to be than they ever were.

Join the gang at this fall's mini reunion the weekend of October 31-November 2.

2 Central Green, Winchester, MA 01890

Using the hoots he bought for his freshman hike up Moosilauke, Larry huntley has climbed 23 of New Hampshire's highest peaks and the siring of the 10 Presidential. JACK KENT '50