1942

Tom Blankley writes from Ponte Verda. Fla., that the fires that raged there during the summer came within 15 miles, but they were not evacuated. Northern Florida, he said, was very hot and..."one came off the golf course dripping wet even if the vote is to quit after nine holes (which has happened on several occasions). " To cool off they rented for August back in their old hometown of Southold, N.Y.

Tom also enclosed a clipping from the Vassal Quarterly of last winter: "They closed (Dick Rigg's) golf course for three months to redo the fairways, so he was available for travel! That's how the Rev. Katherine Grace Riggs put it. They had good reasons to be in rural Mexico, the Canadian Rockies, various New England states. The wunderbar trip was flying to Amsterdam where they boarded the Rembrandt Van Rijn, cruised the Rhine/the Alain/the Danube and on down to Vienna. (They met Proc Page's sister on that voyage.) They came home after a short stop in Hinsdale, Ill., for Katy's high school reunion." Katy was the first woman ordained in the Episcopal priesthood in their diocese. You may remember her presiding at the reunion memorial service in Hanover. That happened when Stam Stambaugh was traveling through San Antonio one day and saw a story on Katy in the local newspaper. He then suggested her to the reunion committee for the service, and she agreed. Meanwhile, Dick and Katy go to their boat in the British Virgin Islands several times a year, usually in February, June, and October.

Dick says that the '42 highlight of their travels was last April when they spent a week with Moanie and Jake Davis at their house in Ireland. The Davises announced this summer the birth of their first greatgrandchild, John Wing ("Jack") Kornet, born on June 7 to Becca and John Kornet, Class of 1990.

Don Amy is doing fine, working parttime in engineering and construction for his hometown, the Village of Ossining, N.Y., while handling projects for his old employer. He, too, is traveling and in September went to some of the former Soviet provinces west of China with a group headed by Dartmouth professor George Demko, with whom Don had visited China two years ago.

This is my twelfth column since taking over as your class secretary, and a little reflection may be in order. The most disquieting part of the job is attending to the obituaries. There have been 18 just in the past year. In alphabetical order, in case you missed the notices, were Paul Breck, Matt Bride, Chuck Drennan, Richard Fairman, Bill Headley, Bob Headley, Ted Lapres, Dick Lawton, Dave List, J.B. McEntire Jr., Harro Miller, Robert Pitman, Allan Priddy, Bill Provost, Dave Smith, Bob Strasenburgh, Chan P. Thomas, and Fred Wells. I extend to their families and friends the condolences of the entire class. We started after graduation with 649 classmates. As of June 28 this year the records office showed a total of 287 deceased.

Bob Encherman, your newsletter editor, was given a surprise for his 80th birthday this fall with a party of friends and family outside of Boston. During the summer Bob and Carolmae went to St. Petersburg in Russia, followed by a trip along the coast of Sweden. Then they visited Norway in September, before heading west to Seattle. Just a small taste of their travels this year.

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