1944

Our exciting canvass of '44s who live in the Evergreen State continues with one who doesn't. But Spencer Baird comes close. Home for him and Judy has for 27 years been Tofino, British Columbia, population 1,300, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and they love it. Actually, they live six miles from the heart of the city and operate their own solar and hydro systems. Spence stays busy chopping firewood, building boats and converting cars to electric power, including the Chevy pickup he drives. He has traded visits (Tofino to York, Maine) with Stan Barr, but doesn't yet have ayellow birch table. Spence and Judith have each undergone two cataract operations, but are happily back to 20- 20 vision. "Happily" is the keyword to their lives.

Down south in Auburn, not far from Tacoma, George Cornell keeps close to home looking after Janice, who hails from a New Hampshire town named Hanover. After a peripatetic and largely sea-going career (see our 50 th), they have traveled to worldwide destinations including Europe, Nova Scotia and a super cruise from Singapore to Sydney, just the ticket for a retired Puget Sound master pilot. George has become a big genealogy fan and that, in turn, has made him a big fan of the Mormon Library in Salt Lake City. He says it's where to go to find out.

A few miles southeast of Puyallup lies the town of Orting, where Gil Anthony will be happy to show passerby '44s majestic Mt. Rainier and his 60 acres of alder, cedar and hemlock, a sawlog resource he has nurtured from a starting 27. And if his tendonitis has eased up, he promises them some snappy tennis. He and Audrey adore their "wonderful, big surroundings." A WW II Air Corps flier and then for 10 years a contract bush pilot in Alaska, where he served four years as mayor of Seward (then population 2,800), Gil has for a long time thought about tackling a home-built airplane kit. No action yet, but there's always tomorrow. He stays in touch with Warren Sullivan, misses Fritz Hier (so what's new?) and will welcome any wandering classmates.

From Kirkland by Lake Washington, wonderful Don Davidson's widow, Tanya, reports two Dartmouth graduate sons and an undergraduate grandson. She is well, busy as a couit translator in Russian and French, and buying a home near Avignon.

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