1936

Al Doolittle wrote Christmas Day after checking their halfa-cre pond for ice-skating. His ("almost full-time job" is as chairman of the Derry Conservation Commission, trying to control its growth. It just bought a 75-acre farm to keep it undeveloped. He talked with his college roommate, Bob Keller, in Manchester, planning to retire from the Kalwell Cos. Bob's four sons are all involved with it. Lucky man! Al Gibney called from Venice, Fla., while we were in Vancouver, B.C., for a white Christmas. Al's been hospitalized with back and leg problems. "I have to start all over again to recover, and hope to be playing golf soon." He expects RayBuilter to be a near-neighbor again in February. Steve Stotzer and Emilie are very happy in their new home in a retirement village in northwest Milwaukee. Steve's work since graduation was with Stotzer Granite Cos., founded by his Swissborn sculptor grandfather 107 years ago. He and other older alumni meet monthly at the Town Club. Steve talked with Courtney Citron, Steve's former roommate. Dr. Bill McLaughlin, who died in November in California, was Steve's best man in 1948. Steve has seen HermNunnemacher's sister, not Herm. As shooter of the starting gun at a sailing race on Pine Lake, he used a steel ball. It landed in someone's back yard without hurting anyone. It caused a ruckus.

Ludwig Zuber was written up in the St.Petersburg Times as doing imaginative paintings. Born in Heidelberg, his grandmother at age six gave him his first water-colors. Ludwig and Tanya's families came to the United States in 1921, and after his retirement as history teacher at Cherry Lawn School in Darien, Conn., moved to Seminole, Fla. Ludwig rebuilt and added to their home for old-age comfort and enjoyment. He cooks gourmet meals for friends.

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