1936

1937's newsletter shows Harold Putnam 37 and Pug Goldthwait, each captain of the speed skating team their senior years. Pug was an usher at Harolds 1939 wedding. They did not see each other since— until June 2000.

Russ Capelle, Northfield, Vermont, planned a visit to brother George C. Capelle Jr. in Madison. Russ retired from teaching at Norwich University, then landscaped his 16 acres until Violet died in 1996. He lives alone, but daughter Beth and husband (they run the town flower shop) with two grandchildren live nearby. Russ has spent half his 83 years—and continues—playing the violin in the Vermont Philharmonic.

Jane and Al Gibney, reunion co-chairman with Ray Builter, in July returned to Rhode Island after a visit with four of their 10 greatgrandchildren in Utah: "A great time, also to pre-see the 2000 Winter Olympic sites." Congestive heart failure put Al into the hospital there for five days.

These lines seem appropriate to all great grandparents: "When we were young we planted the garden. The seasons came and went and we spoke of many things. The future became the present."

In July off the coast of Fire Island, ground was broken for a memorial similar to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., a black granite wall 30-feet long and 12-feet high, to be inscribed with the names of all 230 lost in the TWA 800 crash, including our Ruth and Edwin Brooks. One relative of a lost one said: "They say if you hold someone in your thoughts, they are not really gone."

A post-conventions comment: Bush is on a port tack, Gore on a starboard tack. Who will be sunk as they collide on a center course?

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