1944

The hard-working wife wonders about the phone bill this month, but I assure her that talking to a half-dozen classmates out there is worth any cost. When is the last time, for example, that we heard of Tom and Connie Magoon's 25 Elderhostel adventures, stretching all over the lower 48 and beyond to Alaska and Hawaii? Tom is a retired director emeritus and professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, but he still pops into the university a couple of days a week to help on counseling surveys. The Magoons summer in Lancaster, N.H., where Tom was born; and they winter in hockey rinks, where they have season tickets to the Washington Cavaliers.

We reached Alex and Thelma McPherson in March when they were looking at snowdrifts out the second floor of their Illinois home. "And alas," said Alex, "my snowshoes are on my son's farm in Missouri, and my skis are in a barn in New Hampshire." Chubber Alex says they decided a couple of years ago to let someone else shovel snow, and they moved into a town house. Thelma got a new knee this past year, and Alex got a deer.

Jay McMullen, retired CBS producer, director, writer, and narrator, finds life in "Greenwich, Conn., very much to his liking. "We travel some, but we are mostly content with our feet up and taking it easy. I have a lovely wife, two great daughters, and three outstanding grandchildren." Jay left Hanover in 1942 for service with the British as an ambulance driver; he later joined the U.S. Army, and after the war graduated from Columbia University.

Charlie Geer, a freelance illustrator in New Jersey and then Maryland, retired to Rockland, Maine, eight years ago, and he is now painting mostly for himself and for fun. Wife Mary is active in local social work, and both are active on the local "high seas"; they traded in their sailboat for a powerboat and now cruise the Maine islands, letting the engine do the work.

Retired prof. Bill Foye still has his hand in at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, but at least he's traded two days at home and five at the office for five at home and two in the lab. Author of scores of scientific publications and a book on trout fishing, Bill is now at work on another book on the outdoors. 'I love cruising our woods with an ax and binoculars," he says, "and I like sharing it with others." He and wife LilaMarie have a son at Skidmore

I was worried about Bob and Jo Riebow when the Florida tornadoes hit the Orlando area in late February, but they said they didn't even have to crawl under the table. The winds missed'em completely. Reeb says a bad back isn't helping his golf game much, but he's getting in nine holes at a time. Son Rob '76, a Delta Airlines pilot, is building a house in Park City, Utah, while Atlanta and Rochester are home to his two daughters and three grandchildren.

Russ Burdge, in Hanover, has a new knee (to keep his new hip company); Suds Suddarth continues making new wine down there in West Virginia (not the revenuer kind, of course); and Greg Rabassa has a new second address, in Pawling, N.Y., to go along with Manhattan.

We wish you a lovely, butterfly summer. That's it. Blessings.

P.O. Box 24, Lovejoy Hill, Cornish Flat, NH 03746

Fritz Hier '44 on honorary degrees, p. 42