1951

After a short silence—only 22 years!— Paul Meyer has reported in. He's still the cornerstone of the mathematics department at Lehman College of City University of New York in the Bronx—been there since 1964. He writes, "I may have claim to two '51 records, first to retire, and the oldest to marry. I 'retired' when I quit Eastman Kodak in 1955 to go back to Columbia for a Ph.D. in pure mathematics and a much more enjoyable career as an academic. (Tuck School had taught me that I wasn't the least interested in business, but it took awhile to sink in.) As for the other, just last summer Susan Roney Drennan and I got married, and the eight-year-old granddaughter of the groom got up on a chair to deliver a toast in her role as 'oldest grandchild.'" They met some years ago when Paul was a volunteer naturalist helping band birds on Great Gull Island off Rhode Island, and Susan, from the National Audubon Society in New York City, joined the project. Paul also mentions going to a reunion last year of '51 Wigwam senior-year roommates, hosted by Harriet and DaveO'Neill in Amherst, N.H., also attended by Charlie Russell and Peggy and HowardRead.

Kathy and Jim Danaher may have set some kind of record for vacation air miles, jaunting off in January to the island of Saipan, where son Blaine is in the resort business, and stopping in Honolulu with Fumiko and Dick Halloran on the way back. They returned to discover that a fire of suspicious origin had gutted their house in Los Altos, Calif., and so have set about the tedious process of rebuilding. "We were ordering everything new for the kitchen, and commented that it was just like first setting up housekeeping...except this time (thanks to insurance) we've got money," says Jim. Professionally, he's still rolling along with the law office in Palo Alto, the sole practice he's had for almost 40 years.

Howard Bissell and Merrilyn also lived in the California Bay Area for many years. But when they traveled from that home in Orinda to a Pacific Northwest vacation in 1987, life plans took a big turn. "We really liked it, and Merrilyn said right off she wanted to live there," says Howard, "so we got a vacation home in Point Roberts, Wash., and then in 1990 I retired, and we moved to our present home here in Bellingham. I manage to play golf from April until October, then retire the clubs to the garage and spend the winter reading."

Golf also keeps John Clayton challenged these days. "I am constantly struggling with my handicap," he writes. "Marcia and I have been retired at Eastman, in Grantham, N.H., for the past four years. Prior to that I was in the shoe business for 33 years and ran an outplacement firm for five years. We have two children and five grandchildren. In the winter we ski, downhill and cross-country. It's good to be close to Hanover and Dartmouth activities."

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Paul Meyer met his bride while handing birds in Rhode Island. LOYE MILLER '51