1947

As this is written, we wonder how our several classmates who retired to North Carolina have fared with the widespread floods in the fall and record snowfall in January.

Bob Bach writes of an enjoyable sixweek trip to Italy in the fall that involved driving a strange car on unfamiliar roads in competition with the native Italians while visiting Venice, Milan, Alberobello, Sicily, Sardinia and Naples. He is enthusiastic about the scenery and the architecture but not the driving and parking. Our treasurer Dick Hollerith returned from a threeweek trip to Australia and New Zealand in January and suggests that celebrating New Year's Eve in Sydney is the way to go. Bob and Gay Huffman traveled to France in the fall and revisited Omaha Beach. Bill and Jean Hallager have a commutation schedule arranged between Lincoln, N.H., and Southport, N.C., to allow for golf in the South during January, late March, April and November with time for skiing in February. Frank Weber forwarded a N.Y. Times article detailing the reasons for holiday season giving as practiced by Alan and Sally Epstein in celebration of their daughter's birthday. Alan and Merry Hall are busy with a major remodeling project in their retirement home in Hopkinton, N.H. Items not considered when they moved now require attention. Don and Ellie Page enjoy dinner frequently with John Alexander '45 and his wife, Connie. Both retired from Sterling Drug more than 10 years ago. Word was received from Sonny Drury '48, who was skiing at Whistler-Blackcomb right after Christmas.

The thanks of the class go to GeorgeBingham, who is in charge of our Memorial Book program, as well as writing and submitting obituaries as required.

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