1948

It's not too early to mark your calendar for the fall mini- reunion. The football is with Harvard—always fun to beat—and the food is great all weekend, not to mention the camaraderie with your classmates, which is first-class. Dates: October 27-29. The Lord willing, your humble correspondent will be there.

Tom Baldwin said that South Carolina got a real saturation of candidates for the Republican primary and they all showed up at Sun City. He did his patriotic duty and picked up a few extra bucks counting noses for the census bureau in April.

His arm and hand have healed now, so Mac McMichael is hoping to get back on the golf course in the Norfolk area. He is a litde nervous about hitting the ground while taking a divot with an iron. The glue that holds his alumni club together, Mac reports that its student liaison officer is suspicious but hopeful about the student life initiative.

Dick and Lynn Greene fled Exeter, N.H., for three months on Marco Island, Fla., following a pleasant trip to Tuscany last fall. In Walgreens they encountered Mort and Nan Smith, who are Florida winter regulars and had dinner together. The Smiths will be off to Spain and a cruise later this year. Nan and Lynn shared memories of Colby Junior College, from which both are alumnae. Dick had to drive back north on his own when Lynn's mother needed help at home.

One of our Mountain Men in Montana, Rod Susen, is enjoying his retirement in Missoula after many years in the building supply business there. The seven kids are scattered far and wide so that checking on grandchildren makes for a fair amount of travel. He and Jamie are off to Russia in July and a two-week boat trip from St. Petersburg to Moscow. He audits courses at the university, too. For the past 10 years he has been a hospice volunteer. Ironically, he received a goodbye call not long ago from ex-roommate Bob Bogart '46 from a hospice where he was a patient. They have rented a home in San Miguel, Mexico, where a daughter lives for the holidays and several of the family will join them there.

As I write this in March, Lou Clarke was still in Jedda, Saudi Arabia, getting his engine overhauled. He will move north and west quite a bit after that project is complete and may even get home some time this summer as planned. The Frolic has been good transportation so far, and we wish him fair winds and following seas on his voyage home. He has provided some great laughs via e-mail. We hope to be in Hanover to participate in the Alumni Glee Club concert on June 12. If you are in the area and haven't heard the good old songs for a while, check out Spaulding Auditorium that evening for a real nostalgia trip.

-Bob Herrick, 6442 Cardeno Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037-6929; (858) 459-5133 (h); bobherrick@aol.com