1945

This month's lead takes off from last month's promise of more news from Santa Fe and Bud Morris. Bud says he sees Evan Connell frequently and tries to provide him moral support while he works his way through a three-year writing project on the Crusades. This appears to me to be a new kind of expression of Evan's talents and one which should have a resounding result. Bud, likewise a writer, with an ad and PR background, has recently finished a novel with a local setting. "Nobody thinks it's as good as I do," says Bud, "but the real fun was in the research and writing I keep telling myself." Bud and Dee have one son who lives in the Arizona desert, pulls timber out of abandoned mine shafts, and makes interesting furniture. Their other son is a "high-techie with a go-go software company in Seattle." Word from John and judy Mac Donald and from Moe and jane Frye says how much they enjoyed an evening at Bud and Priscilla Street's home at Harwichport on Cape Cod. Moe and Jane have a house nearby. John and judy leave the Maine coast to visit the Cape for two weeks each summer.

The state of Maine figured large in '45 summer activities, as you might expect. The Drakes Island, Maine, home of John and Ruth Leggat was the scene of a reunion of 23 family members including brothers Tom '47 and Dick '48. John and Ruth's son, Tod '83, whom many will recall from '45 reunions, has moved to Cazenovia, N.Y. He and his wife will be practicing, researching, and teaching at SUNY Syracuse hospital and medical school. We Sissons have reuned in Cazenovia, which is a lovely lakeside community with three attractive country inns. You would like it too.

John, Janice, and Jennifer Osborn spent a week on Brandy Pond, Maine, with daughter Heidi '77, her husband, and their two children, ages four and seven. John forwards a letter from the Athletic Sponsor Program thanking '45 for the class contribution which helped recruit an ail-American lacrosse midfielder from Lower Merion High School.

June was '45 friendship month for Don and Rickie Cole. They went to Don's 50th reunion at Harvard Medical School with Jim Dickson and Jack and Barbara Rothwell. Then Floridians Howie and Alice Sawyer spent several days with them in Maine. Finally Murray and Delores Smart, also out of Florida and returning to their former state, stopped for a visit. Not all the action was in Maine. Eleven

New Hampshire-Vermont '45 couples enjoyed Howard and Lillian Hoots's Mascoma-side hospitality, with both bar and grille active on their sightly terrace.

Did you see the latest Money Magazine survey, America's Top Places to Live? Focus was on New Hampshire, with Nashua No. 1 in the nation, and Hanover among the top ten retirement spots. The Hanover story featured ILEAD (Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth). The ILEAD summer lecture series was ably concluded by Fred Berthold's talk: "The Limits of Human Knowledge." Fred dealt creatively with the difference between knowledge and faith and how twentiethcentury science has influenced theological development. He provided a useful background paper. I'm sure he would be glad for you to have a copy, which I will be glad to supply on demand.

My special thanks to those of you '45 executive committee members who responded promptly to my request for news. Rest of you, and all of you, please send yours along too.

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